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Thursday, June 19, 2025

On April 24, 2025, the Florida Senate passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (“CHOICE”) Act (“the Act”).[1] If signed into law by Governor DeSantis, the Act will take effect on July 1, 2025.[2] The Act does not ...

Monday, May 19, 2025

“Res judicata,” Latin for “a matter judged,” is “the principle that a cause of action may not be relitigated once it has been judged on the merits.”[1] In Milner v. Baptist Health Montgomery, et al., No. 23-12985 (11th Cir. Mar. 31, 2025), the Eleventh Circuit provided an...

Friday, April 18, 2025

On December 29, 2022, the PUMP Act was signed into law.[1] The PUMP Act further amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) “to extend the reasonable break time and space protections to pump breast milk at work to as many as 9 million more employees who were not previou...

Friday, March 14, 2025

 

In 2021, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the launch of its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“CCF” or “the Initiative”).[1] As noted by the DOJ, the Initiative aims to “utilize the False Claims Act to pursue cybersecurity related fraud by governmen...

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