Articles

09.28.22

Apartment Owners Prevail in COVID-19 Test

In his latest “Takings Talk” column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Senior Counsel Michael Berger discussed a federal case arising in Minnesota wherein an apartment owner challenged a state-wide eviction moratorium, testing the judicial strength of apartment owners' arguments ...


09.26.22

What Artists, Influencers and Brands Need to Know

Manatt Partner Esra Hudson and Associates Mackenzie Pearson and Ryan Patterson wrote a column for the Daily Journal about the impact that California’s Senate Bill 62, known as the Garment Worker Protection Act, has had on the entertainment industry.  SB 62, which went into effect on ...


09.06.22

Dicta ain’t necessarily so

In their latest column for the Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Partner Benjamin Shatz and Associate Benjamin Strauss examined the Ninth Circuit’s four-year debate on what constitutes a holding and the resulting shift from the narrow “necessity model” to the broad ...


08.31.22

Oil and Gas and Cities – Oh, My!

In Manatt Appellate Senior Counsel Michael Berger’s most recent column for Daily Journal, he examined a case in which Trinity East Energy claimed the City of Dallas violated the constitution by taking its property without compensation after the energy company was denied a natural gas drilling ...


08.09.22

What Vin Scully Taught Me About Life (and Law)

Manatt Entertainment Partner Nathaniel Bach wrote a column for the Daily Journal about lessons he learned from Vin Scully’s storytelling that he brings into his career as a litigator. “I’ve thought often of the power in Scully’s silence – letting the game and the ...


08.05.22

Entrepreneurs Beware — Is Biden’s FTC Challenge Of The Meta-Within VR Deal About Competition Or ...

In Manatt Antitrust Partner David Reichenberg’s latest Forbes column, he discussed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenge to Meta’s acquisition of VR-App builder Within and evaluated the FTC’s claim that there is cross-platform competition amongst similar ...


08.04.22

Manatt Professionals Write ICLG Fintech Laws and Regulations USA 2022 Chapter

Leader of Manatt’s Fintech practice Brian Korn, Manatt Financial Services Partner Benjamin Brickner, Manatt Financial Services Associate June Kim and Corporate and Finance Associate Bernhard Alvine wrote a chapter on the fintech regulatory landscape in the United States for International ...


08.02.22

What’s the Deal?

In his latest column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Partner Benjamin Shatz discussed a long-running family law divorce case in which the court dismissed the appeal of a vexatious litigant, acting in propria persona, on the grounds that the trial court order was not appealable. In the ...


07.27.22

Takings and Copyright Law

In his most recent “Takings Talk” column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Senior Counsel Michael Berger examined a decision by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals addressing copyright infringement by state government entities.  In the article, Berger explained how ...


07.21.22

7 Ways Companies Can Harness Failure to Drive Success

In his latest column for Entrepreneur, Manatt Digital and Technology Managing Director Kalon Gutierrez examined the value of failure and how it is a necessary ingredient of success.