The Supreme Court unanimously held that for a complaint of induced infringement, a patent owner must allege that the accused infringer took affirmative, not passive, steps to encourage direct infringement. Thus, where a generic…
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/ Health, Intellectual Property
On June 3, 2026, the European Commission released the EU Tech Sovereignty Package. Taken together, its constituent measures represent an effort to reduce reliance on US and other non-EU technology and digital services and to…
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/ Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Directs executive branch agencies to expand and implement Schedule Policy/Career, an excepted-service personnel category for career federal employees in policy-influencing positions. Transfers designated positions into Schedule…
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/ Administrative Law
On May 27, 2026, the SDNY and CFTC filed parallel actions against Michele Spagnuolo, a software engineer employed by Google, alleging that he misappropriated confidential corporate information and used it to trade on a…
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/ Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
On May 28, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the designation of Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), two of Brazil’s largest criminal organizations, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists…
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/ Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
Recent geopolitical tensions in the Gulf region have introduced heightened volatility, creating uncertainty for businesses operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and across the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Against…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking
The rapid adoption of generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini) has led litigants and counsel to increasingly use these tools for analyzing documents, drafting strategy and synthesizing facts. However, public…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Although the ABC test has long been New Jersey’s statutory standard for worker classification, the new rules provide guidance on how the NJDOL interprets and applies that test. The rules apply under various statutes the…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
The Executive Order (“EO”) directs the alignment of the U.S. core childhood vaccine schedule with the best practices of peer, developed countries, while preserving access to vaccines and protecting religious freedoms and…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Health
On May 1, 2026, the Connecticut General Assembly passed Senate Bill 5, the Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency Act (SB 5 or the Act). Governor Ned Lamont has indicated that he will sign the bill into law…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 21, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in Docket No. RM25-12-001 proposing the most consequential overhaul of its regulations governing natural gas pipeline…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
On 22 May 2026, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) published its updated Arbitration Rules (2026 ICC Rules), which will apply to all ICC arbitrations commenced on or after 1 June 2026. The President of the ICC Court of…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, International Law & Trade
On May 19, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Enforcement (Division) issued a staff advisory outlining a new approach to evaluating cooperation, self-reporting and remediation in enforcement…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking
On May 19, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed two companion rulemakings that, if adopted, would constitute significant changes to the public offering and reporting framework. The proposals are part of a…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
While much of the policy debate about cryptocurrency on Capitol Hill has been centered around market structure, members of the tax writing committees have also been working on proposals to update the Internal Revenue Code to…
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/ Finance & Banking, Taxation
