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The European Union has agreed to new rules that will require online platforms, such as Google and YouTube, to compensate creators for the online dissemination of their copyrighted works.
The latest development in climate change litigation came out of last week’s Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissal – spurring more speculation that these issues will eventually be appealed to and decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Apple takes a bite out of Project Titan by laying off employees in its self-driving car program.
FedEx is working on how to automatically get goods across the finish line.
Most lawyers begin learning about torts by reading the Palsgraf case. Palsgraf established the principle of foreseeability as the basis for imposing a duty. But are the principles from Palsgraf still relevant today?
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Generally, states follow the American Rule concerning attorney’s fees, where each party is responsible for paying its own fees. On occasion, however, fee-shifting exceptions for prevailing parties are built into state statutes, and one such statute is the Massachusetts Wage Act.
Economic sanctions turbulence continued virtually unabated in 2018 and into early 2019, making work for the sanctions experts both in and out of the US government.
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A sole arbitrator issued an award in favor of Rockefeller. Rockefeller then filed a petition to confirm the award as a judgment.
“Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross formally submitted to President Donald J. Trump the results of the Department of Commerce’s investigation into the effect of imports of automobiles and automobile parts on the national security of the United States.”
Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce that Law360 has recognized the firm’s Sports industry group as “Practice Group of the Year” for its headline-grabbing work.
As part of its initiative to ensure consumer protection rules are up-to-date with economic and technological advances, the Federal Trade Commission recently completed its first review of the CAN-SPAM Rule, and ultimately voted to keep the Rule in place without making any changes.
On February 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a request from Maryland’s Attorney General to review the decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held the state’s drug price gouging law to be unconstitutional.
While President Trump’s border security policy has dominated recent news headlines, his deregulation policy has quietly jockeyed into a better position to survive court scrutiny.
Partner Sarah A. W. Fitts was ranked in Chambers Global 2019 for the fifth year in a row for her work in Energy: Electricity (Transactional) - USA. Sarah was recognized for her “good judgment and business sense.”
The core question, in Parker v. Reema Consulting Services, Inc., 2019 WL 490652 (Feb. 8, 2019), was whether a false rumor that a female employee slept with her male boss to obtain promotion can ever give rise to her employer’s liability under Title VII for discrimination “because of sex.”
California is one of a handful of states requiring employers to pay a certain minimum to employees as reporting time, or “show up,” pay.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed legislation that would require businesses to disclose the presence of potentially hazardous chemicals, including carcinogens, on the labels of products.
Arent Fox’s Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring practice was retained as counsel to represent the official committee of unsecured creditors in the cases of Glansaol Holdings Inc and Philmar Care, LLC.
A case filed in 2015 by 21 minors, Juliana v. United States, seeks to hold the U.S. government liable for climate change.
Massachusetts moved one step closer to establishing a paid family and medical leave program with the recent release of draft regulations by the newly formed Department of Family and Medical Leave (the “Department”).