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UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation

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The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form. The Draft Treaty is still being negotiated and amended. The Draft Treaty complements soft law in the same area, namely the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 24 to April 28, 2023

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The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued the first of its Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) audit letters for 2023 to randomly selected radio and television stations. The deadline for the selected stations to upload responses to their FCC-hosted online public inspection file is June 8, 2023. GHz) band for next-generation wireless services.

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Customs and Trade Law Weekly Snapshot

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through February 7, 2023. Period 4: November 7, 2022 to February 7, 2023 – 300,000 units without rollover. On April 15, 2022, the FDA published a draft guidance for industry on developing drugs to treat celiac disease, “Celiac Disease: Developing Drugs for Adjunctive Treatment to a Gluten-Free Diet.” and 8450.20.00

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

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The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] It went into effect in January 2023 and will be phased in over the next five years.

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CMS Finalizes Guidance on Medicare Part D Manufacturer Discount Program

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Below, we provide a high-level summary of the Final Guidance, focusing on the legal and regulatory updates from the May 2023 draft guidance. We do not address the technical and administrative details of the Discount Program here. The manufacturer will have 60 days to appeal the CMP before an administrative law judge (ALJ).

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: February 20 to February 25, 2023

Broadcast Law Blog

The FCC released a draft Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”) that, if adopted as scheduled at the FCC’s March 16 open meeting, would formally propose to extend the FCC’s existing audio description requirements for broadcast television to DMAs below the top 100 (i.e., local broadcasters to innovate and thrive. DMAs 101-210).

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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In an article published in 2014, law professor Thomas Merrill suggested that the Chevron decision was not regarded as a particularly consequential one when it was issued. But in the decades since then, it became one of the most significant rulings on federal administrative law, cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times.