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The California Court of Appeal gave licensees of health care facilities good news by expanding the scope of the “reasonable licensee” defense when the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issues a citation and imposes penalties.

YouTube has a new procedure in place for content with children as the target audience. Due to a recent FTC settlement, channel owners must determine if content is direct to children before publishing.

Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce the firm has been ranked as a Standout in investing in client relationships and client-facing communication in BTI Consulting Group’s BTI Client Service A-Team 2020: Survey of Law Firm Client Service Performance.

Move over for the next self-driving player.

Potential products subject to the additional duties are provided in a preliminary list of 63 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) subheadings with an estimated import trade value of approximately $2.4 billion.

Entities regulated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) should have greater confidence in sharing confidential business information with the agency following a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the latest step in implementing its February 2019 “Action Plan” for regulating a group of synthetic chemicals called per- and polyflouroalkyl substances (PFAS) last week.

US Government Plans to Evaluate Technology Services Transactions to Protect Against “Foreign Adversary” Threats and May Block or Undo Transactions

In the next month, Congress intends to present the President with legislation to combat robocalls, which will require service providers to provide a software to consumers aimed at re-establishing trust in the communications ecosystem.

Arent Fox Intellectual Property Partner Marylee Jenkins has served as a member of the Patent Public Advisory Committee for the US Patent and Trademark Office since January 2013 and as Chair since December 2016.

Under Myanmar’s new law, any existing Cautionary Notices must be refiled as trademark applications within the first few months of 2020 or risk losing their priority.

On September 24, Administrative Patent Judges Jameson Lee, Thomas L. Giannetti, and Garth D. Baer of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office found for Acronis, Inc., in a patent challenge against Realtime Data, LLC.

Right to repair laws have come in and out of the public eye over the last decade. While many of the earliest laws covered only specific industries, such as the automotive and farm equipment industries, many states are looking towards legislation that specifically targets electronics.

In what is widely considered to signal intensified focus by the Federal government on Medicaid supplemental payments and related State Medicaid financing mechanisms, the CMS on November 18, 2019 proposed the Medicaid Financing and Accountability Regulation.

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

On November 19, Arent Fox LLP was honored at the 18th Annual M&A Advisor Awards in New York with the prestigious Restructuring Deal of the Year award for work on the successful bankruptcy of Diesel USA Inc.

Environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are pursuing litigation against EPA to force companies that have never intentionally used asbestos in a product to file reports linking their products to asbestos.

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CMS issued an Interim Final Rule with comment period that further delays the inclusion of the US territories in the definitions of “States” and “United States” for purposes of the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program from April 1, 2020 until April 1, 2022.

WASHINGTON, DC – On November 15, the US Court of International Trade denied the Trump Administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an importer challenging the government’s use of a Cold War-era trade law to double national security tariffs on steel imports from Turkey.

Headlines that matter for privacy and data security.

Schiff Hardin LLP advised I-Bankers Securities, Inc. as managing underwriter in GreenVision Acquisition Corp.’s initial public offering of 5 million shares, raising $50 million with an over-allotment option of $7.5 million.

Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Partner Olga Bogush has been appointed to Practice Group Leadership in Tax & Wealth Services by TerraLex, a global network of law firms and attorneys.

Bandai Namco has filed in the California District Court for a TRO (temporary restraining order) and a preliminary injunction against AtGames Holdings Ltd. to prevent the Taiwanese retro game maker from producing and selling its in-home arcade cabinet which displays the Ms. Pac-Man character.

Arent Fox Patent Practice Group Leader Rich LaCava will be co-presenting at the Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel All Hands Meeting on November 19, 2019 in Santa Clara, California.