/publicpolicy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Public Policy Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:59:27 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421770?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421770 A First Circuit panel on Friday upheld the Trump administration's ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, vacating a lower court's order that would've kept in place Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood clinics in 22 states. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:02:10 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2420400?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2420400 A California federal judge Friday certified a class of consumers accusing Live Nation of monopolizing the live entertainment industry, rejecting the company's argument that there aren't common issues that predominate over individual ones and adopting a tentative ruling he issued earlier this month. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:07:14 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421626?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421626 Global online discussion forum Reddit on Thursday launched a legal challenge to Australia's first-of-its-kind law prohibiting children under 16 from creating accounts on nearly a dozen popular social media platforms, telling the country's top court that the measure illegally restrains minors' political communications and that there are "less restrictive" ways to protect kids online. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:58:04 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421703?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421703 A D.C. Circuit panel based its decision to uphold Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris' firing on a mischaracterization of the agency, Harris argued Friday to the full D.C. Circuit, asking the en banc court to override the decision, bring her back to work and preserve MSPB members' job protections. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:51:10 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421495?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421495 The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that contractors doing work superintended by the state Department of Transportation may be able to avoid personal injury liability, reasoning that an appellate panel erroneously found the department had to hire the contractors for the statute's protections to apply. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:48:46 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421687?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421687 A closely divided Michigan Supreme Court on Friday let stand a lower appellate court holding that a nonprofit's legal challenge to a state policy denying workers' compensation pay to unauthorized immigrants was filed too late. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:21:26 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421160?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421160 Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer has announced a $350,000 fine against a Texas-based insurer and other businesses over "healthcare sharing ministry" memberships that her office claimed violated state law by excluding coverage of preexisting conditions and services such as abortion. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:16:12 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421536?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421536 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted seven America Invents Act reviews in the second round of cases where he has found that patent challenges warrant consideration since taking over the institution process. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:04:37 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2419002?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2419002 Thirty years ago this month, Congress overrode a presidential veto to enact a law that changed the landscape of shareholder class action lawsuits. How the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act will continue to change that landscape remains a live issue as courts continue to wrestle with the question of how investors can prove that they've been injured by alleged corporate malfeasance. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:53:38 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421619?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421619 The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on Thursday that would create a centralized office in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to oversee major acquisition programs and overhaul the agency's contracting processes. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:06:23 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421561?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421561 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn what it called "outdated" guidance on the actual delivery of cryptocurrency, to be more in line with recommendations from the President's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, and has issued no-action letters to several prediction market platforms. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:04:03 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421420?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421420 As Washington state is preparing to transition to a new bar exam, its Supreme Court has ordered a retroactive adjustment to the current exam's minimum passing score, making an estimated hundred-plus law school graduates who narrowly failed in recent years newly eligible for admission to practice law. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:59:37 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421718?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421718 Federal lawmakers have introduced a copyright bill to the U.S. House of Representatives that would give employees of the federal government permission to use literary works produced by civilian members of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for work and other purposes. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:08:52 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421283?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421283 The Third Circuit has agreed to rehear en banc a high‑profile challenge to New Jersey's firearms law, vacating a September panel decision that upheld major portions of the state's sweeping "sensitive places" restrictions while striking down others. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:58:01 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421486?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421486 The Federal Trade Commission's newly unsealed New York federal court complaint confirms that the agency had accused Pepsi of favoring Walmart, until the newly Republican-controlled FTC abandoned the lawsuit alleging the soda giant both gave Walmart discounts denied others and actively sought to raise Walmart's rivals' own prices. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:53:48 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421621?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421621 The National Association of College Stores, Energy Markets of America and other industry groups objected Friday to a proposed new settlement between Visa, Mastercard and a class of potentially millions of merchants to resolve two decades of antitrust litigation, claiming the deal "does not come close to fixing the swipe fee challenges" faced by merchants. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:44:59 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421531?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421531 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday gave five crypto-focused firms a preliminary nod to operate as national trust banks, clearing the way for crypto to integrate further into the banking system despite pushback from banking lobbyists. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:44:57 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421698?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421698 The U.S. Department of Justice — despite recently eliminating its Tax Division as part of a broad restructuring — continues to meet with practitioners representing clients who may face federal criminal tax charges, the former division chief said Friday. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:28:45 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2419492?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2419492 The Internal Revenue Service will be updating a program early next year that would allow taxpayers to voluntarily report previously undisclosed income as a way to resolve their tax issues to facilitate a simpler reporting process, the agency's criminal enforcement chief said Friday. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:27:10 +0000 /publicpolicy/articles/2421289?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /publicpolicy/articles/2421289 The Seventh Circuit on Thursday halted a Chicago federal judge's order requiring the release of hundreds of immigrants arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying the Trump administration was likely to succeed in arguing he should have conducted individual determinations about whether their arrest violated a consent decree it had previously entered in the case.