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Husch Blackwell LLP

Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2024

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Our downloadable report, Legal Insights for Manufacturing, explores how the business, legal, and regulatory framework is evolving—and will evolve—to address the large generational shifts taking place. This year, our report...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Egg Supplier Scrambling As Pandemic Price-Gouging Enforcement Heats Up

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Earlier this month, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of New York filed a lawsuit  in New York Supreme Court against Hillandale Farms alleging that the company gouged egg prices during the COVID-19 pandemic....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Governor Cuomo Signs COVID-19 Legislation Expanding NY Price Gouging Law to Include Personal Protection Equipment and Increasing...

On June 6, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law legislation (S.8189) that strengthens the state’s price gouging statute, in response to COVID-19. The legislation expands the current price gouging statute by...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l June 2020

SPOTLIGHT - COVID-19 Brings Price-Gouging Litigation To California - California often serves as an incubator for litigation that thereafter sweeps across the country. This phenomenon may hold true for newly minted...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

COVID-19 Client Primer | Trademarks and Price Gouging

Using Trademark Law to Combat Reputational Harm from Third-Party Price Gouging - The COVID-19 outbreak has created unforeseeable, yet critical, need for certain products. Unfortunately, some see shortages in the supply of...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l May 2020

Examining Price-Gouging Allegations During COVID-19 Pandemic - Shook Partner Katie Gates Calderon and Associate Elizabeth Fessler have authored “Best Practices for Food and Beverage Pricing Right Now” for Law360, which...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Price Gouging – It Could Cost You

The COVID-19 crisis has caused many state Attorney’s General, including the Pennsylvania Attorney General (“PA AG”), to encourage consumers to submit complaints and allegations of price gouging. Rest assured that all such...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Price Gouging: Perception Is Not Reality

Consumer complaints regarding alleged price gouging have been increasing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Generally, price gouging occurs when there unreasonable increase the price of a consumer good (or service) during a...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Risk of “Price Gouging” in the New COVID-19 Pandemic Marketplace

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The COVID-19 pandemic era has transformed the economy  with a new emphasis on health and safety related products (e.g., sanitizers, toilet paper, designated medical supplies).  Our economy has suffered severe disruptions to...more

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U.S. and European authorities actively pursue COVID-19 price gouging violations

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The COVID-19 crisis has led to increased scrutiny of pricing decisions by competition and consumer protection authorities around the world. Already, we have seen a rise in state, federal, and international enforcement efforts...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Price Gouging In The COVID-19 Pandemic: Protecting Yourself And Your Business

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Supply difficulties and price changes are focusing businesses and governments on laws and orders against hoarding and price gouging....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Congress Considering New Federal Price Gouging Laws

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Congress has begun igniting its legislative engine to create a federal framework to prohibit price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Until now, price gouging has mainly been the province of state laws....more

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Task Force Enacted to Combat Industrial-Scale Hoarding and Price Gouging

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shortage of necessary medical supplies, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr, in a memo released on March 24, 2020, announced the creation of a special, nationwide task force to...more

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