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Twelve Thompson Hine Lawyers Recognized by New York Super Lawyers 2026
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 29 -- Thompson Hine, a law firm, issued the following news release:
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Twelve Thompson Hine Lawyers Recognized by New York Super Lawyers 2026
Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that 12 of its lawyers were recently selected for inclusion in 2026 New York Metro Super Lawyers(R), six of whom were listed as Rising Stars. The lawyers are members of the firm's Business Litigation, Business Restructuring, Corporate Transactions & Securities, Real Estate and White Collar Defense & Investigations practices. Super Lawyers, which distinguishes the top 5% of attorneys in
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 29 -- Thompson Hine, a law firm, issued the following news release:
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Twelve Thompson Hine Lawyers Recognized by New York Super Lawyers 2026
Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that 12 of its lawyers were recently selected for inclusion in 2026 New York Metro Super Lawyers(R), six of whom were listed as Rising Stars. The lawyers are members of the firm's Business Litigation, Business Restructuring, Corporate Transactions & Securities, Real Estate and White Collar Defense & Investigations practices. Super Lawyers, which distinguishes the top 5% of attorneys ineach state and Washington, D.C. in more than 70 practice areas, recognizes those who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Rising Stars, chosen by their peers as the most recognizable up-and-coming lawyers, represent 2.5% of attorneys in New York.
The lawyers included on this year's New York Metro Super Lawyers list are:
* Ernest E. Badway (Securities Litigation)
* John Bae (Bankruptcy: Business)
* Karen M. Kozlowski (Real Estate)
* Emily J. Mathieu (Business Litigation)
* Michael N. Samuels (Real Estate)
* Mario J. Suarez (Real Estate)
Included on this year's New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars list are:
* Anthony J. Carl (Business Litigation)
* Filip Cukovic (Business Litigation)
* Brian Lanciault (Securities Litigation)
* Joseph Nunziata (Securities & Corporate Finance)
* Karim Sabbidine (Criminal Defense: White Collar)
* Anna K. Stark (Securities Litigation)
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Original text here: https://www.thompsonhine.com/insights/twelve-thompson-hine-lawyers-recognized-by-new-york-super-lawyers-2026/
[Category: BizLaw/Legal]
SAS Aims AI Agents at Industry's Toughest Challenges
CARY, North Carolina, April 29 -- SAS Institute, a business analytics software and services provider, issued the following news release:
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SAS aims AI agents at industry's toughest challenges
From finance to the factory floor, SAS industry accelerators give customers a competitive edge
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What's keeping many industry players from succeeding with AI agents and models? Namely, a talent gap, a lack of sector-specific AI expertise, budget and time constraints, and a "move fast and break things" mentality that lets necessary governance go by the wayside. Amid increasing pressure to keep pace
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CARY, North Carolina, April 29 -- SAS Institute, a business analytics software and services provider, issued the following news release:
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SAS aims AI agents at industry's toughest challenges
From finance to the factory floor, SAS industry accelerators give customers a competitive edge
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What's keeping many industry players from succeeding with AI agents and models? Namely, a talent gap, a lack of sector-specific AI expertise, budget and time constraints, and a "move fast and break things" mentality that lets necessary governance go by the wayside. Amid increasing pressure to keep pacewith innovation, industry buyers and tech builders are looking for safe and practical ways to deploy AI.
That's why SAS continues to equip customers with industry accelerators, an expanding portfolio of AI agents, models and model pipelines for solving industry's toughest challenges. Making good on SAS' $1 billion investment in industry solutions, new offerings and enhancements to industry accelerators coming in 2026 include SAS Supply Chain Agent, available in private preview to customers and rolling out soon for enterprises globally.
What is SAS Supply Chain Agent?
SAS Supply Chain Agent streamlines supply and operations planning (S&OP), a crucial process retailers and manufacturers use to manage supply chains as markets and material availability ebb and flow.
S&OP is a multi-day, taxing process requiring professionals across multiple departments to work in spreadsheets predicting and making decisions about dispensing the next six to 12 months of inventory. The sheer scale of managing thousands of supply chains via numerous complicated procedures is a longstanding wicked problem. It's also meant that most organizations could only expend the resources and time to run S&OP once a month - until now.
SAS Supply Chain Agent runs continuously to balance demand, supply and operations. Users can optimize supply chains in periods of high demand, forecast future need based on usage patterns and reduce waste and over-ordering. Plus, users can maintain ongoing, near real-time visibility into supply chain operations, allowing them to continuously tap their data to make smarter decisions, inside or outside of a typical planning window.
Business users can interact with the agent via an intuitive chat experience that empowers them to follow their curiosity and problem-solve whenever they'd like. For instance, a user could ask the agent to run a scenario (say, a 15% drop in demand) and explore possible outcomes, receiving explanations along the way on how the agent arrived at its decisions for transparency and trustworthiness.
"Current pre-packaged agents tend to tackle basic processes; with Supply Chain Agent, SAS is compressing a very complex process, which could deliver significant value," said Kathy Lange, Research Director at IDC's AI, Data, and Automation Software practice. "This offering positions SAS to bring its longstanding supply chain knowledge to a new generation of agentic AI solutions."
How are customers using SAS?
SAS continues to improve and evolve its model and agent offerings, and global customers across industries are seeing transformative results.
Digital twins from SAS transform operations
First debuted at SAS Innovate 2025, SAS creates digital twins of customers' industrial environments in Epic Games' Unreal Engine (UE). These fully virtual facility replicas allow customers to simulate scenarios, creating a proving ground for customers to ask "what if."
For example, in hospital rooms all over the world, surgical teams can't perform lifesaving operations if their full set of necessary medical devices - scalpels, clamps and more - are not sterilized and safe to use on patients. A major provider of medical device sterilization is collaborating with SAS to build a digital twin of their facility, allowing them to explore and test scenarios that could prevent or slow delivery of their vital services and optimize how they run.
This customer believed that trays of medical tools were getting stuck in a buffer lift that lined the trays up for cleaning, bottlenecking the entire process. By rendering their facilities into digital twins and exploring further, they discovered that, in fact, the trays were getting delayed because the buffer lift acted as a central distribution point. By making targeted adjustments, the bottleneck was broken and production pace picked up.
Safeguarding workers with synthetic data
Per a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis, more than 5,000 workers are fatally injured in the U.S. each year, with falls, machinery accidents and improperly worn protective equipment accounting for a significant number of these workplace deaths and injuries.
SAS Worker Safety enables organizations to address workplace risks using digital twins, synthetic data and computer vision. With this offering, customers use digital twins to create realistic footage for training computer vision models on workplace safety scenarios. This approach allows for virtually unlimited variation in simulated environments, capturing crucial details like the shape of protective eyewear, equipment color and how different lighting conditions can affect an accident.
Synthetic data and computer vision also make it possible to model rare, but plausible events for which real footage may not exist, like forklift collisions. By using fully simulated worker personas, organizations can repeatedly test specific sequences of actions without involving real employees or exposing any personally identifiable information.
Once trained, these models can be deployed across cameras within a facility to provide real time alerts, helping these facilities to ensure that workers are wearing protective equipment correctly and maintaining a safe environment. On a factory floor, this might mean verifying proper helmet positioning, or, in medical settings, detecting a slipped mask or glove before a lab or operating room is compromised.
SAS empowers state governments to help families in need
In administering Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, states often struggle to keep pace with evolving regulation, heavy caseloads and managing time-consuming manual tech tasks. Now, new federal regulation can directly fine state budgets for exceeding the threshold for payment error rates: the percentage of benefits that are over- or under-awarded because of eligibility miscalculations, outdated case data or undetected fraud. These compounding errors can cost states millions in federal funding. And, most importantly, families who need vital assistance may not be receiving all the benefits they qualify for.
Multiple states, including the State of Nevada, are using SAS Payment Integrity for Food Assistance to confront this problem and better serve their constituents.
This SAS offering connects to a state's existing data - eligibility records, case management files, income verification data and transaction histories - without needing a total data infrastructure overhaul. Next, advanced analytics and machine learning models specifically trained for SNAP payment integrity can triangulate and track error patterns, like income or household changes that haven't triggered a case update.
This helps case workers and investigators already crunched for time. Instead of painstaking manual review, they can follow up on prioritized leads. And rather than a quarterly report, supervisors can plug into insights at any time from a live dashboard view of the program. With SAS, states can get ahead of the federal compliance curve and support families eligible for food assistance in getting the benefits they need.
SAS fuels fraud fighters across financial services
Per a recent fraud study by SAS and the Association of Certified Fraud Professionals, 75% of anti-fraud professionals are seeing a surge in financial fraud and scams targeting consumers, and 55% anticipate that deepfake social engineering and GenAI document fraud and forgery will increase significantly over the next two years.
Moreover, only 7% of surveyed anti-fraud professionals felt their organizations were more than moderately prepared to detect or prevent AI-fueled fraud.
Against this backdrop, global banks, insurers and other financial services organizations - and the fraud-fighting professionals they employ - trust SAS financial fraud detection models and agents to track financial crime and protect consumers' assets and identities. SAS Fraud Decisioning for Payments helps deliver real-time fraud detection across various financial transactions.
SAS' financial fraud detection models have been trained on patterns from a broad dataset contributed via consortium by major global financial institutions. This data spans credit card fraud, debit card fraud, ATM fraud, digital wallet fraud, application fraud and emerging vectors like money mule detection. SAS' fraud decisioning models, deployed on the SAS platform, mean institutions don't have to start from zero; they're learning from millions of fraud events across the industry, helping them keep pace with criminals.
Industry accelerators: Built to excel on 50 years of expertise
SAS industry accelerators are rigorously tested and uniquely designed for their designated functions. Plus, by integrating with an organization's existing workflows, industry players can use SAS' portfolio to extend their analytics and AI capabilities with their existing data.
"When organizations are left stitching together ad-hoc AI frameworks and experiments, they often fail to achieve the competitive edge they're looking for when they invest in AI," said Manisha Khanna, Global Market Strategy Lead, Applied AI at SAS. "We're engineering industry accelerators with purpose: to solve defined, real industry problems in highly regulated environments.
"With production-ready agents and models that work on data they already have, our customers across industries can and are achieving extraordinary outcomes."
Modeling the future at SAS Innovate
Today's announcement was made at SAS Innovate, the company's global data and AI conference, as SAS celebrates 50 years of innovation. This year's event is proudly supported by our partner sponsors, including Microsoft, Intel and AWS.
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About SAS
SAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW(R).
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Original text here: https://www.sas.com/en_us/news/press-releases/2026/april/industry-accelerators.html
[Category: BizComputer Technology]
Noble Acquires Ten-Hotel Upscale Select-Service and Upscale Extended-Stay Portfolio
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 29 -- Noble Investment Group, a real estate investment manager specializing in the travel and hospitality sector, issued the following news on April 28, 2026:
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Noble Acquires Ten-Hotel Upscale Select-Service and Upscale Extended-Stay Portfolio
Diversified Marriott, Hilton, and IHG-Branded Portfolio Acquired Below Replacement Cost; Transaction Reflects Continued Conviction in Supply-Constrained Travel and Hospitality Segments
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Noble Investment Group ("Noble") today announced the acquisition of a ten-property portfolio of upscale select-service and upscale extended-stay
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ATLANTA, Georgia, April 29 -- Noble Investment Group, a real estate investment manager specializing in the travel and hospitality sector, issued the following news on April 28, 2026:
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Noble Acquires Ten-Hotel Upscale Select-Service and Upscale Extended-Stay Portfolio
Diversified Marriott, Hilton, and IHG-Branded Portfolio Acquired Below Replacement Cost; Transaction Reflects Continued Conviction in Supply-Constrained Travel and Hospitality Segments
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Noble Investment Group ("Noble") today announced the acquisition of a ten-property portfolio of upscale select-service and upscale extended-stayhotels. The transaction reflects Noble's continued thematic deployment of institutional capital into travel and hospitality segments characterized by constrained supply, diversified demand drivers, and durable margin profiles -- structural attributes that Noble projects to generate consistent, risk-adjusted income across market cycles.
The portfolio comprises ten Marriott, Hilton, and IHG-branded properties spanning the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast--a deliberately diversified footprint anchored by complementary demand generators, including healthcare, higher education, government, logistics, and corporate travel. The assets are newer vintage, with an average age of less than six years, and deliver strong in-place current income, premier global loyalty and distribution platforms, and a basis meaningfully below replacement cost.
Noble sees a rare alignment of conditions in today's travel and hospitality environment: construction costs at historic highs and materially constrained financing for new development; diversified business, leisure, and extended-stay travel patterns anchoring recurring, multi-night occupancy and durable revenue performance; and lower operating cost intensity, leaner labor models, and more efficient capital reinvestment cycles in the upscale select-service and extended-stay segments - supporting durable cash flow and margin resilience across cycles.
"This is precisely the kind of opportunity our platform is built to source, underwrite, and execute," said Dustin Fisher, principal and head of acquisitions at Noble. "Ten newer-vintage, well-located assets, premium brands, geographic diversification, and an attractive basis--paired with a hands-on operating capability that allows us to compound value through disciplined asset management."
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About Noble
Founded in 1993, Noble Investment Group is an institutional real estate investment manager focused exclusively on the travel and hospitality sector. With $5 billion in assets under management and a three-decade track record across cycles, Noble serves as a fiduciary to many of the world's leading institutional investors -- pension plans, endowments, foundations, wealth managers, and insurance companies, through a vertically integrated platform that combines investment discipline, asset management, and operating execution across the upscale select-service, upscale extended-stay, and branded long-term accommodations segments. Noble has been recognized among PERE's Top 200 Global Investment Managers and named a Best Place to Work by Pensions & Investments and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The firm's investment philosophy centers on enduring performance, partnership, and purpose.
Learn more at www.nobleinvestment.com.
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Original text here: https://www.nobleinvestment.com/noble-insights/noble-acquires-ten-hotel-upscale-select-service-and-upscale-extended-stay-portfolio
[Category: BizReal Estate]
Lubrizol Releases White Paper on TPU Physical Foaming
WICKLIFFE, Ohio, April 29 (TNSrep) -- Lubrizol Corp., a Berkshire Hathaway company, issued the following news:
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Lubrizol Releases White Paper on TPU Physical Foaming
* Lubrizol releases white paper on next generation midsole systems
* Redefining footwear performance through TPU physical foaming
* Advancing scalable, reliable, and sustainable manufacturing
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Shanghai, China -- As running continues to expand worldwide and performance-driven training increasingly blends into everyday use, expectations for running footwear are rising. The midsole, once regarded mainly as a cushioning component,
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WICKLIFFE, Ohio, April 29 (TNSrep) -- Lubrizol Corp., a Berkshire Hathaway company, issued the following news:
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Lubrizol Releases White Paper on TPU Physical Foaming
* Lubrizol releases white paper on next generation midsole systems
* Redefining footwear performance through TPU physical foaming
* Advancing scalable, reliable, and sustainable manufacturing
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Shanghai, China -- As running continues to expand worldwide and performance-driven training increasingly blends into everyday use, expectations for running footwear are rising. The midsole, once regarded mainly as a cushioning component,is now expected to function as a system that delivers performance, manufacturing reliability, and sustainability at scale.
Lubrizol today announced the release of its latest white paper, "Material Power, Performance Acceleration: Building a New Industrial Ecosystem for TPU Physical Foaming.(https://www.lubrizol.com/Company/Insights/2026/04/How-TPU-Physical-Foaming-Is-Reshaping-the-Future-of-Footwear-Midsoles)". The paper examines how thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) physical foaming is redefining midsole design and manufacturing, and why system-level collaboration is becoming essential for next-generation footwear platforms.
As the inventor of TPU, Lubrizol draws on its global material expertise and long-standing industry experience to analyze the structural challenges facing midsole development. These challenges include rising performance demands, increasing pressure for manufacturing efficiency, and the need for consistent, scalable production across regions. The white paper outlines how TPU physical foaming addresses the inherent limitations of traditional EVA chemical foaming, enabling manufacturers to achieve both advanced performance and high-quality industrialization.
Rather than viewing innovation through a single technology lens, the white paper introduces a dual-track development framework. Autoclave embryo foaming and supercritical injection foaming are presented as complementary approaches--one focused on unlocking performance potentials, the other on improving production efficiency and automation. Together, they support globally scalable, multi-tier midsole platforms capable of meeting diverse market needs.
"Running shoe midsoles are under a fundamental shift," said Lu Zhang, Vice President of Lubrizol, "Competition is no longer about isolated performance metrics. It's increasingly shaped by how effective materials, processes, and manufacturing systems work together to deliver a consistent experience. This white paper is intended to serve as a reference framework - not only for technology selection, but for how the industry can move toward a more collaborative and resilient ecosystem."
From the consumer perspective, runners are looking beyond initial sensations such as lightweight feel or rebound. Long-term durability, consistency over time, and confidence that products will perform reliably across different markets and production batches are becoming equally important. The white paper identifies TPU physical foaming as a key enabler for globalized production models that balance performance with manufacturing stability.
"TPU physical foaming represents a meaningful step forward for this industry," said Justin Park, Global Footwear Market Director at Lubrizol. "It delivers improvements in performance and comfort while also supporting more consistent, efficient, and repeatable manufacturing. As brands scale globally, this balance is no longer optional--it is accelerating."
The white paper also emphasizes that successful industrialization requires the integration of materials, processes, and equipment--signaling a broader shift from linear supply chains toward collaborative innovation models that invite closer partnership across the value chain, with the goal of delivering a more consistent end-user experience.
Lubrizol continues to invest in both material and process innovation to accelerate the industrialization of TPU physical foaming, with the opening of its Foam Center of Excellence (CoE) in Shanghai, building on its existing CoE footprint in Korea. These facilities connect Lubrizol's global R&D capabilities with regional application expertise, enabling closer collaboration with processors, equipment partners, and brands to accelerate commercialization.
Through sustained investment and open collaboration, Lubrizol is advancing the evolution of running shoe midsoles--supporting improved performance, consistency, and sustainability while helping to shape the next phase of the footwear industry's transformation.
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About The Lubrizol Corporation
Lubrizol, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a science-based company whose specialty chemistry delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve well-being and enhance modern life. Every day, the innovators of Lubrizol strive to create extraordinary value for customers at the intersection of science, market needs and business success, driving discovery and creating breakthrough solutions that enhance life and make the world work better. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol has global reach and local presence, with more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales and technical offices and more than 7,000 employees around the world. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
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Original text here: https://www.lubrizol.com/company/news/2026/04/lubrizol-releases-white-paper-on-tpu-physical-foaming
[Category: BizChemicals]
Fisher Phillips Issues Insight: Alabama's New "Let the Kids Play!" Law - What Private and Religious Schools Must Know About Athletic Eligibility Rights for CHOOSE Students
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 29 -- Fisher Phillips, a law firm, issued the following insight on April 28, 2026:
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Alabama's New "Let the Kids Play!" Law: What Private and Religious Schools Must Know About Athletic Eligibility Rights for CHOOSE Students
Alabama recently enacted a law that creates robust enforcement mechanisms to ensure that K-12 students are not denied athletic opportunities just because they are enrolled in the state's school choice program that rolled out last year. The "Let the Kids Play!" Act, which Governor Kaye Ivey signed on April 14 with immediate effect, gives teeth to
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ATLANTA, Georgia, April 29 -- Fisher Phillips, a law firm, issued the following insight on April 28, 2026:
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Alabama's New "Let the Kids Play!" Law: What Private and Religious Schools Must Know About Athletic Eligibility Rights for CHOOSE Students
Alabama recently enacted a law that creates robust enforcement mechanisms to ensure that K-12 students are not denied athletic opportunities just because they are enrolled in the state's school choice program that rolled out last year. The "Let the Kids Play!" Act, which Governor Kaye Ivey signed on April 14 with immediate effect, gives teeth tothe CHOOSE Act's athletic-eligibility nondiscrimination provisions and empowers students, their parents, and participating schools to take legal action to block violations of these rules. If you are a private or religious K-12 school that participates in both the CHOOSE program and interscholastic sports, you'll want to read on to learn about what the new law means for your school and your student athletes.
Quick Background on Alabama's CHOOSE Act
Alabama's CHOOSE Act, enacted in 2024, established refundable tax credits through education savings accounts. Starting with the 2025-2026 academic year, eligible families can use those accounts to help pay for private school tuition and other approved educational expenses for K-12 students.
When applications first rolled out last year, the state's new school choice program was met with overwhelming demand. As a result, the state nearly doubled the funding for the program. (Read more about key considerations for private school leaders following the funding boost).
The Battle Over Interscholastic Sports Eligibility
As schools geared up for the current school year, a new problem emerged for student athletes who had enrolled in the CHOOSE program, transferred schools, and wished to participate in sporting events sanctioned by the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA).
The AHSAA's 2025-2026 Handbook explicitly stated that funds students received through the CHOOSE program would be deemed financial aid for purposes of a longstanding rule that bars students from athletic participation for one year if they transfer to an AHSAA-member school and receive any financial aid. The association released a statement on September 4 confirming its stance.
Litigation over the issue swiftly ensued. Governor Ivey and Nathaniel Ledbetter, in his capacity as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, filed suit against the AHSAA, claiming that the athletic association's stance was unlawful because the CHOOSE Act includes antidiscrimination requirements that specifically protect participating students' eligibility in AHSAA-sanctioned athletic events.
Several weeks later, a Montgomery County judge issued an order that temporarily blocked the AHSAA from "enforcing any rule or policy which makes the acceptance of CHOOSE Act funds the sole determinative factor of eligibility for participation in interscholastic athletic events." By March, lawmakers introduced a bill that would accomplish the same - and then some.
New Law Bolsters Athletic-Eligibility Protections for CHOOSE Act Participants
The "Let the Kids Play!" Act (SB 342) immediately gives CHOOSE Act participants - including students, their parents, and participating schools - robust enforcement mechanisms to challenge violations of the law's athletic-eligibility nondiscrimination provisions.
Specifically, CHOOSE Act participants may now sue any interscholastic athletic association (or its officers, agents, servants, employees, member institutions, or "any other person working in concert with them") that regulates interscholastic K-12 athletic events, such as the AHSAA or the Alabama Independent School Association, to obtain a court order blocking the association from:
* adopting, enforcing, or implementing any rule or practice that restricts a student's athletic participation based solely on their status as a CHOOSE Act participating student;
* taking any adverse action against a CHOOSE ACT participant for a student's court-ordered participation, even if the order is later invalidated; or
* retaliating against a CHOOSE Act participant for advocating or supporting a student's rights to participate in an athletic activity.
When a participant requests the injunctive relief described above, courts will be required to prioritize allowing athletic participation over preserving the status quo and to apply legal presumptions that heavily favor the student. Courts also will be allowed to award relief regardless of when an alleged violation occurred.
In addition, CHOOSE Act participants will be entitled to:
* sue to recover any actual economic damages proximately caused by any prohibited action taken by the interscholastic athletic association, so long as the suit is brought within two years from the date of the discriminatory, retaliatory, or other prohibited action taken by the athletic association; and
* recover costs and reasonable attorney fees if they prevail in any action brought under SB 342 (prevailing interscholastic athletic associations will be entitled to costs and fees as provided under the Alabama Litigation Accountability Act).
Note: Neither the CHOOSE Act nor the "Let the Kids Play!" Act prohibit interscholastic athletic associations from maintaining rules, policies, or practices, including those governing academic eligibility, transfers, or residency, that are applied without regard to whether the student is a CHOOSE Act participating student.
Impact on Alabama Private and Religious K-12 Schools + Next Steps
If you are an educational service provider that participates in both the CHOOSE program and an interscholastic athletic association, you are now in a much stronger position to ensure that your students are not denied athletic opportunities solely because they participate in the state's school choice program. As a participating school (as defined in the CHOOSE Act), you have the right to take direct legal action, such as requesting court orders to block such discriminatory rules and practices, challenging an association's retaliatory actions, and seeking damages, fees, and costs where appropriate. (CHOOSE Act students, as well as the parents of such students, have the same independent rights.)
To take advantage of these new protections, and to be prepared if disputes arise, you should consider taking the following steps:
* Review athletic association membership documents to identify any potential rules that violate nondiscrimination protections for students enrolled in the CHOOSE program
* Maintain records of eligibility determinations involving CHOOSE students, as well as any related communications with athletic associations
* Establish internal protocols for athletic eligibility disputes, such as designating a point person (such as an athletic director) to monitor issues (and evaluate whether any violations have occurred within the past year, since the new enforcement rights can apply retroactively), escalate potential violations quickly, and coordinate with legal counsel when needed
* Educate students and their families on their independent rights under the law and coordinate with them when issues arise to ensure a consistent enforcement approach
Conclusion
If you have any questions about how the CHOOSE Act or the Let the Kids Play! Act may affect your school, please contact your Fisher Phillips attorney, the authors of this Insight, any attorney in our Birmingham office, any attorney on our Education Team, or any attorney in our Sports Industry Group. Make sure you are subscribed to Fisher Phillips' Insight System to get the most up-to-date information.
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Original text here: https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/insights/insights/alabamas-new-let-the-kids-play-law
[Category: BizLaw/Legal]
Experian Meets the Next Generation With First 'AI Sponsored Snaps' to Promote Financial Education on Snapchat
COSTA MESA, California, April 29 -- Experian, an information services company, posted the following news release on April 28, 2026:
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Experian Meets the Next Generation with First 'AI Sponsored Snaps' to promote Financial Education on Snapchat
Expanding its consumer first AI strategy, Experian aims to bring trusted financial information into everyday digital conversations where younger consumers already connect
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Experian(R) today announced it plans to expand access to trusted financial education by integrating into Snapchat's AI Sponsored Snaps ad offering. Experian intends to bring AI-powered
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COSTA MESA, California, April 29 -- Experian, an information services company, posted the following news release on April 28, 2026:
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Experian Meets the Next Generation with First 'AI Sponsored Snaps' to promote Financial Education on Snapchat
Expanding its consumer first AI strategy, Experian aims to bring trusted financial information into everyday digital conversations where younger consumers already connect
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Experian(R) today announced it plans to expand access to trusted financial education by integrating into Snapchat's AI Sponsored Snaps ad offering. Experian intends to bring AI-poweredcredit and personal finance information directly into Snapchat conversations that consumers--especially younger adult audiences--use every day.
This integration reflects Experian's broader strategy of meeting consumers where financial curiosity naturally happens: within everyday conversations on platforms they already rely on. Rather than requiring people to seek out financial information on unfamiliar sites or from unverified sources, Experian is extending its expertise into Snapchat to provide accessible, easy to understand general financial education, powered by AI, that helps deliver relevant answers to common questions such as 'how can I increase my credit score?' or 'what is the best way to budget?' directly within the flow of conversation.
"Consumers are increasingly talking about finances in social and digital spaces, and we want to be there as a trusted, credible voice," said Debbie Hsu, Executive Vice President of Product, Experian Consumer Services. "By using AI to show up in those moments with expert guidance, we're making financial education more accessible, equitable and empowering."
Snapchat's AI Sponsored Snaps ad format is designed to allow users to engage with Experian through an AI-powered conversational experience, asking questions and receiving clear, contextual responses in a natural, back-and-forth dialogue covering common financial topics such as understanding credit, managing expenses, protecting personal information, and navigating everyday financial decisions. The experience is grounded in Experian's longstanding credit and financial expertise and is designed for learning and awareness while in the app for a seamless experience. The experience provides general information to help people learn and does not provide personalized financial, legal, tax, or credit advice.
"At Snap, we're focused on making advertising feel as natural and helpful as the conversations people are already having on the platform," said Ajit Mohan, Chief Business Officer at Snap Inc. "By combining Experian's trusted financial insights with AI Sponsored Snaps, we can invite consumers into interactive chats about credit and money management in a way that feels intuitive, personal, and in the moment. Together, we're showing how conversational AI can transform the way brands show up for people, making every interaction feel less like an ad and more like a conversation."
With over 110 million monthly active users in the U.S. and more than 950 billion chats sent globally in Q1 2026 alone, Snapchat stands out as one of the most conversation-driven platforms in the world[1]. Experian's integration reflects a broader shift from destination-based financial tools to AI-enabled, embedded, helpful information delivered within everyday digital interactions.
Expanding Access to Financial Knowledge
The Snapchat integration is part of Experian's consumer first AI strategy to expand financial education beyond its owned properties and into the digital environments where consumers naturally ask questions and exchange information. For younger consumers, having access to information from an established authority helps cut through noise and misinformation often found elsewhere online.
This move builds on Experian's recent integration with ChatGPT, where consumers can explore auto insurance options through the Experian Marketplace. Together, these AI-powered integrations signal a growing ecosystem approach, bringing Experian's capabilities into the platforms where decisions increasingly begin.
"Expanding our brand and expertise into platforms like Snapchat supports our mission of Financial Power to All(TM)," added Hsu. "It is about increasing access to credible financial information that can help people make more confident financial decisions."
Experian plans to continue exploring how conversational AI and social platforms can support consumers across more moments in their financial lives.
For more information, visit www.experian.com.
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About Experian
Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, deliver digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them to save time and money.
We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and many more industry segments.
We invest in talented people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and to innovate. A FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 25,200 people across 33 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.
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[i] Source: Snap Inc.
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Bell Signs Memorandum of Understanding With Korea Aerospace Industries
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 29 -- Bell Textron, a subsidiary of Textron, issued the following news release:
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Bell Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI)
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to explore solutions based on the MV-75 for the Republic of Korea's High Speed Medium Utility Helicopter (HSMUH) program, aligned with U.S. Government priorities and policies.
This cooperative effort between Bell and KAI reflects our shared vision of next generation vertical
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FORT WORTH, Texas, April 29 -- Bell Textron, a subsidiary of Textron, issued the following news release:
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Bell Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI)
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to explore solutions based on the MV-75 for the Republic of Korea's High Speed Medium Utility Helicopter (HSMUH) program, aligned with U.S. Government priorities and policies.
This cooperative effort between Bell and KAI reflects our shared vision of next generation verticallift based on the MV-75, delivering the peak performance and capabilities through significantly enhanced speed, range, and maneuverability that a tiltrotor can offer.
Together, Bell and KAI will assess solutions that offer unmatched capability, to include leveraging a modular open systems approach (MOSA) that will enable the Republic of Korea (ROK) forces to rapidly and affordably modify the weapons system to support their military operations.
"Bell is excited to work with KAI," said Jeff Schloesser, senior vice president, Strategic Pursuits, Bell. "MV-75 represents the next generation of vertical lift. HSMUH presents another opportunity to extend the reach of this advanced capability and interoperability with U.S. allies and partners."
Bell and KAI will explore opportunities for industrial cooperation to support the effort as it continues to mature. This collaboration with KAI supports efforts to deliver a transformational capability. Bell is committed to working with KAI and identifying the best solution possible for the ROK.
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This material is based upon work supported by the Army Contracting Command - Redstone Arsenal under Contract No. W58RGZ-23-C-0001. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Army Contracting Command - Redstone Arsenal.
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About Bell
Thinking above and beyond is what we do. For more than 90 years, we've been reimagining the experience of flight - and where it can take us.
We're an aerospace and defense company that engineers and manufactures aircraft for critical solutions in extreme scenarios. We're breaking barriers in lifting people to safety across transportation, medical, rescue and military services, and leading the industry in future solutions that are fast, reliable and efficient.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas - as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc., - we have strategic locations around the globe. And with nearly one quarter of our workforce having served, helping our military achieve their missions is a passion of ours. Above all, our breakthrough innovations deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. Efficiently. Reliably. And always, with safety at the forefront.
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About Textron Inc.
Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, Hawker, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, Textron Systems, and TRU Simulation + Training. For more information, visit: www.textron.com.
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements which may project revenues or describe strategies, goals, outlook or other non-historical matters; these statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, changes in aircraft delivery schedules or cancelations or deferrals of orders.
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Original text here: https://news.bellflight.com/en-US/264935-bell-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-korea-aerospace-industries-kai/
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