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Federal Judge Adam B. Abelson has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against key parts of two DEI executive orders, citing constitutional concerns. The orders were challenged for vagueness and First Amendment violations, particularly regarding viewpoint discrimination.

On February 5, 2025, her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued two memos explaining steps being taken by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 14173 of January 21, 2025 entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit Based Opportunity.”

On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” This EO revokes longstanding Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment Opportunity), originally signed by President Lyndon Johnson, which mandated non-discrimination in employment by government contractors and subcontractors. EO 11246, among other things, required most contractors to adopt affirmative action plans that included workforce analyses, with a goal of increasing employment opportunities for underrepresented women and minorities.    

The recent Florida appellate case of Bandklayder Development, LLC v. Sabga, provides an important lesson regarding damages for construction defects – that damages for construction defects must be proven based on costs of repair measured as of the date of the breach, not current repair costs as of the time of trial.  Otherwise, as the plaintiff homeowners learned too late in the Bandklayder case, even a valid claim for construction defects will fail under Florida law.