Following up on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPR”), which we discussed back in March, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released on August 28th a final rule extending Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements to certain investment advisers (Final Rule).
The Final Rule adds “investment adviser” to the definition of “financial institution”…
Before the ink was even dry on my blog post yesterday, which discussed the EEOC seeming to zero in on healthcare folks or companies for disability discrimination, the EEOC struck again with another such lawsuit. In a press release today, the EEOC alleges that a pediatric health care system violated the Americans with Disabilities Act…
For the first time in nearly a decade, GAO in Knudsen Systems, Inc. sustained a protest challenging an agency’s decision to set aside a procurement for small businesses. The decision involves the so-called “Rule of Two”: under FAR 19.502-2(b), agencies must set aside for small businesses a procurement with an anticipated dollar value of more than…
On September 4, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), challenging two key Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules — the 2000 Privacy Rule and the newly implemented 2024 Privacy Rule. These rules were enacted to protect…
The Denver office of the Securities and Exchange Commission has rolled up a bunch more whistleblower rule violations. This follows up with last week’s settlement with Nationwide Planning for impeding clients from reporting violations to the SEC.
In response to a Congressional mandate in Dodd-Frank, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 21F-17 in August…
Today’s post in our pet food series focuses on federal oversight of pet food. At the federal level, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates pet food similar to that for other animal foods. The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&CA) requires that all animal foods, like human foods, be safe to eat, produced…
Molecular diagnostics company Enzo Biochem, Inc. has reached settlements resolving investigations in relation to a 2023 data breach by the attorneys general (AG) for Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Enzo has agreed to pay the states a total of $4.5 million, as well as institute and maintain new data security protocols.…
Years ago, I posted – often – about the number of medical and health practitioners and companies being charged with discriminating against people with disabilities. Seemed that this was a frequent scenario, and I wondered about it in my monthly post in Above The Law – “Who do you suppose the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
More than a year ago, the EU Batteries Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) entered into force. In approximately one year’s time, the EU Batteries Regulation is set to repeal the 2006 Batteries Directive (Directive 2006/66/EC), with some exceptions. During the 2024 summer, a number of the new requirements under the EU Batteries Regulation have begun to…
On August 29, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Center (“FinCEN”) published Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers (“Final Rule”) regarding residential real estate. The Federal Register publication is 37 pages long. We have created a separate document which sets forth only the provisions of the Final Rule, at 31 C.F.R. § 1031.320, here.…
