Government Regulation and Public Sector Law

As Congress debates federal privacy legislation and agencies pursue broader access to health records, a Fourth Circuit appeal examines whether patients and families can challenge government subpoenas for sensitive medical information.

North Carolina's Gift Ban includes several exceptions beyond food and beverages that allow event hosts to provide benefits to state officials.

Practicing real estate lawyers all over the United States have long been familiar with a problem that can arise whenever a landowner-client seeks to develop land burdened...

US sanctions targeting Hizballah and its Lebanese allies mark an unprecedented escalation, including designations of mid-level military officers as Washington pushes for disarmament.

Bob Hall, the father of wheelchair racing and a two-time Boston Marathon winner, was the lead plaintiff in a groundbreaking lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act that opened up the field of wheelchair racing.

The United States has historically treated child sexual abuse as aberrational, yet the greatest danger often comes from trusted figures in a child's daily life.

The fragile Turnberry trade truce between the US and EU faces mounting pressure from Brussels' digital sovereignty agenda, including the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act that Washington views as discriminatory.

This is one in a series of GT Alerts examining the president’s FY 2027 budget request to Congress, breaking down the president’s budget for the Department of War (part 1). Part 2 focuses on the U.S. Army’s...

Foley’s New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) team attended the recent Cohn Reznick NMTC Summit in Miami, where community development entities (CDEs), investors, project sponsors...

On 7 April 2026, The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM or proposed rule) that would revise the requirements for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance programs for financial institutions.

Regulators across jurisdictions are increasing scrutiny of financial institutions’ anti-money laundering controls, with enforcement efforts focusing not only on whether compliance frameworks exist, but on whether they function effectively in practice. Those themes emerged during WLG’s recent Compliance & Investigations Group discussion, where Isadora Fingermann and Karla Lini Maeji of TozziniFreire, Theresa Sauerwein of Taylor Wessing, and Suegene Ang of WongPartnership examined how AML enforcement is evolving in Brazil, Germany, Singapore, and beyond.

A federal court in Texas has vacated FinCEN's Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule, suspending enforcement and eliminating current reporting obligations for title companies and closing agents. FinCEN has issued updated guidance confirming no liability for non-filing during the vacatur period, though the agency has appealed the decision and the rule may be reinstated pending Fifth Circuit review.