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Texas Lawmakers Fight Secrecy By State Supreme Court

The Texas Supreme Court – a state once thought to have the strongest Public Information Act in the nation – […]

IP Licensing and Antitrust: The DOJ/FTC Guidelines

Licensing intellectual property can have an “anti-competitive” effect, but not necessarily. How does a company, whether potential plaintiff or defendant […]

Appeals Court Throws SEC Judges’ Rulings Into Question

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Administrative Law Judges should be appointed to their positions, like ALJs in other federal agencies, […]

Recent Scrutiny of Non-Competes

Federal and state enforcement agencies, historically, have stayed out of regulating non-compete agreements. But a recent uptick in enforcement activity […]

Standing In Data Breach Cases

Many data breach and cybersecurity cases have faltered for failure to establish concrete harm necessary to support standing, in cases […]

OSHA Inspections Down, Workplace Fatalities Up In 2016

The number of workplace inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration dropped to a 20-year low in fiscal 2016, […]

Toothless Voluntary Regs Upheld For The Gulf “Dead Zone”

A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled that the EPA does not have to impose regulations that address farm […]

U.S. Tech Giants Alarmed By EU Internet Liability Proposal

The EU proposal would require internet companies to run content filtering software that would detect copyrighted material. According to a […]

Consumer Agency Rule Would End Class Action Waivers

A proposed rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would eliminate class action litigation waivers in most financial products and […]

Wage Issue Before California Supreme Court

Decades ago the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a “de minimis rule” for lawsuits seeking compensation under the federal Fair Labor […]

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