In January 2025, Covington issued a client alert noting that the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) for Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2025, which sets annual spending and policy for the Pentagon, introduced new China-related prohibitions on defense contractors and their consultants. The provision is finally set to take effect on June 30, 2026. This client alert provides an update on the new restriction and suggested compliance steps defense contractors, and consultants who work with defense contractor clients, might consider taking before the … Read the rest
Countering an Executive Order issued by President Trump and the adoption by the CFPB of its final rule revising Regulation B, the New York Department of Financial Services recently issued an Industry Letter warning the financial institutions that it regulates that they must consider disparate impact when lending.
“Regulated Entities are reminded that under Section 296-a, covered credit decisions that result in a disparate impact may constitute an unlawful discriminatory practice,” the agency wrote in a letter to financial institutions.… Read the rest
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Hope Martinez and first published earlier this month by Social Science Quarterly. Here is its abstract:
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This article examines whether incarceration influences a change in political beliefs for those incarcerated and the extent to which it affects more vulnerable groups, including women and people of color.
Method
I use a series of logit models to analyze responses to the Marshall Project’s 2020 prison survey.