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In March 2021, the Illinois Legislature passed amendments to the Illinois Human Rights Act (the Act), 820 ILCS 112, making Illinois the first state to require the reporting of employee-level pay data. Beginning January 2023...

In 2021, I wrote a piece on the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (“CROWN”) Act, which seeks to eliminate race-based hair discrimination. At the time, 14 states had enacted such legislation. Today, the...

Since the writing of Courts Side with the Vaccine, the U.S. Supreme Court has published two rulings on COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In NFIB v. OSHA, 142 S. Ct. 661 (2022), the Court struck down a rule promulgated by the...

On November 6, 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal) (the “Act”). The Act made changes to the requirements for Public Transportation...

Iowa legislators continue to weigh the merits of imposing various limits or caps on lawsuits involving medical malpractice and commercial truck operators. Iowa’s 2022 legislative session is scheduled to continue through at...