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Richard L. Brand
Arent Fox San Francisco Managing Partner and Sports Practice Group Leader Rich Brand and Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Protection Senior Associate Eva Pulliam co-authored the article, “Faces in the Crowd: Legal Considerations for Use of Facial Recognition Technology at Sports Arenas."
Stephanie Trunk
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General published a request for information seeking public comments on what new or modified safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute or exceptions to the beneficiary inducements prohibition.
Darrell S. Gay
On August 27th, New York State published a model training, model policy, and model complaint form on sexual harassment in the workplace that applies to all employers, regardless of size.
James M. Westerlind
We are pleased to provide you with the new, 2018 version of the Arent Fox Survey of Data Breach Notification Statutes.
Glenn C. Colton, Richard L. Brand, Maidie E. Oliveau
In today’s instant news environment, headlines are abuzz with different types of misconduct in the sports industry. These issues range from sexual misconduct allegations to player mistreatment.
Lynn R. Fiorentino, Debra Albin-Riley
Following on our previous alert, Proposition 65 amendments that take effect on August 30, 2018 impose new warning requirements on all participants in the product supply chain.
Michael L. Stevens
On June 6, 2018, NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb issued Memo 18-04 offering helpful guidance on employee handbooks after the Board’s decision in The Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154 (Dec. 14, 2017).
George P. Angelich, M. Douglas Flahaut, Christopher K.S. Wong
Recent decisions arising out of the Arcapita bankruptcy case provide useful guidance regarding the minimum contacts required for bankruptcy court jurisdiction as well as when and how to apply international comity and the presumption against extraterritoriality in bankruptcy litigation.
George P. Angelich
In a recent opinion, United States Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn of the Southern District of New York held that Bankruptcy Courts may enter final default judgments against non-US defendants who fail to respond to a properly served summons and complaint.
President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) to modernize the CFIUS review process to address 21st century national security concerns today. Congress enacted FIRRMA as Title XVII of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, HR 5515.
Kay C. Georgi, John Gurley, Sylvia G. Costelloe
The US Administration announced that it would be imposing sanctions on the Russian Government under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) over the use of a “Novichok” nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal.
Michael L. Stevens
On July 9, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2770 into law, which seeks to protect victims of sexual harassment who complain to their employers from defamation claims by the alleged harasser.
Kay C. Georgi, Sylvia G. Costelloe
The President issued an Executive Order on August 6, 2018, “Reimposing Certain Sanctions With Respect to Iran” (the New Iran EO), which re-imposes relevant provisions of five Iran sanctions EOs (EOs 13574, 13590, 13622, and 13645).
Richard L. Brand, Glenn C. Colton
Ever since the US Supreme Court issued its decision striking down the federal ban on state sponsored sports betting in the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act this spring, there has been much discussion and speculation on what the decision means for the fantasy sports industry.
David R. Hamill, Diana Dimitriuc Quaia, Leah Scarpelli
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer issued a statement on August 2, 2018, advising that President Trump has directed him to consider raising the previously proposed 10% additional duty to be applied to $200 billion worth of Chinese goods (referred to as the List 3 products) to 25%.
Stephanie Trunk
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its “Proposed Changes to Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs” for calendar year 2019 (the Proposed Rule).
Timothy J. Feighery, Lee M. Caplan, Karen Van Essen
Monthly Wrap: News, insights & analysis from Arent Fox's International Arbitration team.
Stephanie Trunk
On July 24, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the State of Maryland’s petition for an en banc rehearing of the Fourth Circuit’s April 13, 2018 decision in the matter of Association of Accessible Medicines v. Frosh.
The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred to as the "GDPR," has been in force for only two months now, but it appears to have already claimed a casualty.
George P. Angelich, Annie Y. Stoops
The Ninth Circuit held that a bankruptcy court may not designate claims (i.e. disqualify claims for plan voting purposes) for bad faith under 11 USC § 1126(e)
Karen Ellis Carr, Stanley H. Abramson, Alexander H. Spiegler
Earlier this week the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU’s highest court, issued a decision clarifying whether the EU would regulate products of innovative breeding techniques, like gene editing, under the EU’s Directive 2001/18, the principal EU law governing the regulation of GMOs.
Bradford C. Frese
In WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp., the Supreme Court recently held that patent holders can recover lost foreign profits for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f).
Caroline Turner English
The Third Circuit recently affirmed the enforceability of “anti-assignment” provisions in ERISA health plan documents.
Dan H. Renberg, Philip S. English*
On July 24, 2018, the House of Representatives approved 283-132 a bill (H.R. 184, the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2017) to repeal the excise tax on the sale of a medical device by the manufacturer, producer, or importer.
Emily M. Leongini
California recently announced policy drawing lines between permitted and prohibited sources of cannabinol in products intended to be eaten.