Court Strikes Down DOL's New Persuader Rule
On June 27, 2016, in National Federation of Independent Business et al. v. Perez, et al., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Lubbock Division) issued a nationwide injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from implementing its revised "Persuader Rule," which had been set to take effect on July 1, 2016. The Court found that NFIB and other plaintiffs established a substantial likelihood of success on...
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