USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is more than halfway through its federal fiscal year. While it hasn’t taken any new criminal actions, it has reported various civil injunctive actions, ...

On June 11, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate issued a memorandum entitled Civil Division Enforcement Priorities (the “Memorandum”), outlining five areas of focus for Department of ...

Last week, the EPA announced a landmark policy change regarding the intersection and overlap of criminal and civil investigations/enforcement actions. EPA’s new ...

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EPA has bolstered ties between its enforcement programs that uphold the nation’s environmental laws as the agency cracks down on polluters. The agency announced Tuesday a new policy to boost ...

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Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to place new limits on civil ...

*On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” executive order. This directive aims to eliminate disparate-impact liability in federal civil ...

While federal agencies’ civil rights divisions under previous Republican administrations have primarily assumed a more defensive posture aimed at slowing down left-wing activity, the Trump ...

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