The Names Of Officers Involved In An On-Duty Shooting Must Be Disclosed Under...
The California Public Records Act ("Act") requires the disclosure of public records, unless such records are exempt from disclosure. In Long Beach Police Officers Association v. City of Long Beach, ---...
View ArticlePrimary Jurisdiction is Gaining Some Weight in the Food Court
The plaintiffs’ bar continues to file consumer class actions challenging food and beverage labels en masse, especially in the Northern District of California—also known as the “Food Court.”...By: Mayer...
View ArticleInsurance Coverage for Data Breaches - What Every Business Needs to Know
According to FBI Director Robert Mueller, "there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be…." Computer hackers stealing our personal information (social...
View ArticleOn the Road With Autonomous Vehicles and the Insurance Industry, Issue No. 1
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are no longer a futuristic concept, but a present day reality. Automobile manufacturers and software companies – Google in particular – have created driverless cars that are...
View ArticleFTC Calls for Action on Big Data
Following an 18-month investigation into the practices and operations of data brokers, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a voluminous report calling for legislation to regulate the industry in...
View ArticleYou Can Run, But You Can’t Hide From Sanctions in Discovery
In an October 2013 order in Digital Vending Services International, Inc. v. University of Phoenix, the judge refused to grant the defendants’ request for spoliation sanctions but punished the plaintiff...
View ArticleMay 2014: Trial Practice Update: Courts, Lawmakers, and Other Groups Grapple...
Jurors are expected to decide cases based on evidence they see and hear in the courtroom, after deliberating while sequestered from outside influences. For decades, courts have enforced rules and...
View ArticleOIG Issues Advisory Bulletin Impacting Independent Charity Patient Assistance...
On May 21, 2014, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its “Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin: Independent Charity Patient...
View ArticleCMS Changes to Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Benefit Programs for...
On May 19, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule, published in the Federal Register on May 23, 2014, that sets forth changes to requirements for Medicare...
View ArticlePopular Cybersecurity Reads on JD Supra
A quick look at the most well-read updates on all aspects of Cybersecurity on JD Supra over the last month. From Heartbleed to the Right to be Forgotten, in case you missed 'em the first time...
View ArticleWhite Collar Watch - June 2014
In This Issue: - Whistleblower’s one-two punch: Confidential informant/employee spurs criminal investigation, then successfully sues individual company owner in qui tam action - Alleged illegal...
View ArticleRecent Developments for Intrastate Crowdfunding and Social Media Use
In June 2013, the N.C. House of Representatives approved HB 680, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (NC JOBS Act) by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 103-1. Designed to utilize the “intrastate...
View ArticleWho are the major players in a patent infringement action? Part One
With different technology and different parties involved, no two patent infringement actions are completely alike. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t commonalities between them. For instance, while the...
View ArticleDistrict Court Upholds HSR Rulemaking on Pharmaceutical Patent Licensing...
The transfer of certain patent rights in the pharmaceutical industry will remain subject to the premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) after a federal judge rejected a...
View ArticleRed Notice Newsleter
Welcome to the May 2014 edition of Red Notice, a publication of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. This month, on the anticorruption front, Avon Products, Inc. (“Avon”) agrees to pay USD $135...
View ArticleUSPTO Pilot Program for Glossaries Defining Claim Terms Begins June 2, 2014
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the launch of its new Glossary Pilot Program as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the U.S. patent system. The pilot program, which will begin...
View ArticleNo Judicial Review of FTC Jurisdiction until the Agency Takes a Final Action
Companies that handle personal data may need to litigate an FTC enforcement action to its conclusion before a court will review the Commission's jurisdiction to commence the enforcement action in the...
View ArticleRinging Regulatory Rumors: Deutsche Telekom Purportedly Agrees to Sell...
Reports circulated out of Japan and Germany late last week indicating Deutsche Telekom AG, owner of T-Mobile US Inc., reached a tentative agreement to sell T-Mobile to Softbank, owner of Sprint Corp....
View ArticleLimelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (2014)
Today, in Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., the Supreme Court determined that a defendant is not liable for inducing infringement of a patent under 35 U. S. C. § 271(b) when no one...
View ArticleCombining Two Drugs Is Not Always Obvious
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Addressing the obviousness of combining two known hypertension medications, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a...
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