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The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act provides local governments with additional tools to support housing development, particularly the “missing middle” homes many communities need. Communities can begin preparing now to take advantage of new housing and infrastructure opportunities as they become available.

Michigan's Transformational Brownfield Program remains an important tool for communities seeking to advance complex redevelopment projects that may not be financially feasible without public support, combining the traditional property tax capture tools of a traditional brownfield plan with the ability to capture income taxes, sales and use taxes and withholding taxes.

Many investment advisor firm owners spend decades building trusted client relationships but wait too long to develop a formal succession strategy. Planning what happens in case of a sudden change or crisis, and when retirement approaches, serves as a business planning strategy and ensures advisors meet their fiduciary duties during business transitions.

Effective Sept. 15, 2026, a new Department of Homeland Security rule will replace “Duration of Status” for F-1 students, J-1 exchange visitors and most I visa media representatives with fixed periods of admission.

The DOL has proposed a new electronic disclosure safe harbor for group health plans that could reduce the cost and administrative burden of paper notices. The proposal largely mirrors the existing safe harbor for retirement plans, with several important differences for health plan communications.

Joint ventures in the defense sector are the hot topic these days driven by surging military budgets, raising demand for technology transfer to allies and the mirage of easy money available to U.S. defense companies through the EU Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program seemingly accessible through joint ventures.

On July 20, 2026, President Donald Trump signed three proclamations imposing additional 50% tariffs on designated Canadian goods under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1338)—a statute that no president has previously used to impose duties. The tariffs take effect August 19, 2026, and apply regardless of USMCA origin, and target Canadian motor vehicles, alcohol, and dairy.

The Sixth Circuit recently issued an opinion concerning Title VII’s anti-retaliation protections: an employee who engaged in protected conduct but also violations of workplace policy cannot use the protected activity to excuse her unrelated workplace misconduct.

On the final decision day of the October 2025 term, the Supreme Court held that state laws prohibiting transgender girls and women from participating on girls’ and women’s athletic teams do not violate Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In a pair of end-of-term decisions, the Supreme Court addressed two distinct questions in federal election law. In National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, the Court held that federal limits on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates were unconstitutional in violation of the First Amendment.  In Watson v. Republican National Committee, the Court concluded that federal election-day statutes do not require absentee ballots to be received by election day, leaving state laws allowing receipt after election day intact.