A federal appeals court grilled Justice Department lawyers on Tuesday over Congress's COVID-era policy of proxy voting for legislation, after Texas filed a lawsuit arguing that a law passed by a ...
Several veterans’ benefits programs, payments for 9/11 families, a ban on TikTok on government devices, and changes Congress made to how presidential elections are certified in light of the January 6 ...
A forum to seek input on proxy voting rules has re-opened the debate over the controversial practice of broker voting, with a one new alternative being suggested and another rule proposal filed.
Proxy-voting certainly took the spotlight in 2025. We saw the SEC narrow the scope of permissible shareholder proposals toward the beginning of the year. And toward the end, a White House executive ...
There has recently been a surge of US states proposing proxy voting bills, which would implement a sole-economic-interest standard for proxy voting by fiduciaries of public pension benefit plans and ...
The US Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued a technical release providing targeted guidance on when proxy advisory firms could be viewed as acting as ...