On 10 September 2024, the UK government released its Statement of Changes amending the Immigration Rules. Key changes relevant to many of our clients are summarised below…
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/ Immigration Law, International Law & Trade
As prescription drug costs remains a significant, and largely bipartisan, issue for state and federal legislators, we continue to see activity focused on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as we approach the last quarter of 2024…
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/ Health
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On September 6, 2024, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) National Development and Reform Commission and the PRC Ministry of Commerce issued the “Special Administrative Measures for Foreign…
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/ Health, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Federal Rules of Evidence 701 and 702 govern the admissibility of lay and expert opinion testimony, respectively, in federal courts. Rule 701(c) helps paint the line between the two, providing that an opinion “based on…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health
A Texas federal court recently granted summary judgment for the defendant in a TCPA putative class action, finding that prerecorded calls to schedule a pest inspection were informational rather than telemarketing. Bradford v…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
What do Scarlett Johansson, Drake, The Weeknd, and Taylor Swift have in common (besides being among this millennial’s fav celebs)? They all have the distinct displeasure of becoming a target of deepfake technology – a type of…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The stay of the effective dates of the amended fiduciary regulation and amended exemptions means that the “old” DOL fiduciary regulation (the 5-part test) and the existing exemptions continue in effect indefinitely…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
On August 6, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) partnered with the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) to hold a joint, public workshop titled, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Drug & Biological Product…
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/ Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
The effective date of the DOL’s new expansive fiduciary rule and the amendments to Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 2020-02 has been stayed pending the outcome of the lawsuits challenging the rule and the amended PTE…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Recent developments in AI continue to highlight its increasing prevalence and the regulatory challenges it poses. The DOJ has sued RealPage, alleging its AI software enables rent price-fixing, while NIST partnered with OpenAI…
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/ Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
The stay of the effective dates of the amended fiduciary regulation and amended exemptions means that the “old” DOL fiduciary regulation (the 5-part test) and the existing exemptions continue in effect indefinitely. As a result,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
On September 5, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule providing much needed breathing room for the thousands of companies analyzing their company and supply chains to determine if their products or…
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/ Environmental Law
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken a significant step in its oversight of the voluntary carbon markets with a recent enforcement action against defendants who misappropriated funds through a carbon credit…
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/ Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The stay of the effective dates of the amended fiduciary regulation and amended exemptions means that the “old” DOL fiduciary regulation (the 5-part test) and the existing exemptions continue in effect indefinitely. As a result,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
What Steps Does a Board Need to Take to Ratify a Defective Corporate Act?
1. Draft a Resolution. For each act that needs ratification, the resolution must include: (a) the defective act, (b) the date the act occurred,…
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/ Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions
