Government Regulation and Public Sector Law

Until recently, there was no law against sharing lawfully-collected personal information about Americans with affiliates, partners, vendors, and buyers located overseas. That has now changed.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Villarreal v. Texas adopted a content-based rule, holding that a testifying defendant's Sixth Amendment right does not include the right to discuss his ongoing testimony...

Through letters dated March 3, 2026, the United States Department of War (DoW) formally notified Anthropic that it has been designated a supply chain risk—the first such designation ever applied to an American company.

In late 2025, the EU postponed the application of the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR) for the second time.

On November 14, 2025, the Alaska Supreme Court issued its opinion in Orutsararmiut Native Council v. Boyle. The focus of this dispute centered on several permits that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources ("DNR")...

The relationship between U.S. law and Indigenous sacred heritage has long been complex — and often fraught. The American legal system is rooted in private property and individual rights...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Villarreal v. Texas adopted a content-based rule, holding that a testifying defendant's Sixth Amendment right does not include the right to discuss his ongoing testimony...

On February 25, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan...

On March 2, 2026, the United States Supreme Court blocked a California law that prohibited public school officials from informing parents of their students' gender identity at school...

On 4 March 2026, the European Commission proposed an Industrial Accelerator Act ("the proposed IAA") that would, if adopted, incorporate "Made in EU" and low‑carbon preferences into public procurement, accelerate industrial permitting through a digital one‑stop shop, and condition certain large foreign-direct investments ("FDI") in strategic sectors.

The proposal for the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) formally published on 4 March and reveals a shift in industrial policy priorities, including first steps towards ‘Buy European' in government procurement...

The European Commission's Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) proposes a novel sector-specific FDI control regime, separate from and additional to the revised EU FDI Screening Regulation