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07.14.23

Supreme Court: Business Registration Statutes Don't Violate Due Process

A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court will encourage forum shopping by enterprising plaintiffs, particularly to out-of-state jurisdictions where a defending business has few or no contacts.


03.20.23

Climate Disclosure Mandates: California Lawmakers Press Forward Ahead of Forthcoming Federal Rule

Two proposed climate-related disclosure mandate laws moved closer to becoming law in California.


01.19.23

Entertainment Industry Predictions: Streamers, Litigation, Emerging Tech in 2023

Below we predict what 2023 will bring, ranging from the continued explosion of the creator economy to advancement of novel technologies such as NFTs and the metaverse.


10.03.22

SCOTUS on WOTUS: Sackett Court Signals No "Major Question" and "Significant Nexus" Likely Gone

The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to replace the "significant nexus" test for whether a wetland is jurisdictional under the federal Clean Water Act, focusing instead on a long-standing and equally long-debated statutory qualifier of "adjacency."


09.19.22

Move Fast and Make (Break?) Things: IP-Related NFT Litigation Trends

Although NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been around since approximately 2014, they exploded into the mainstream in early 2021, fetching eye-popping prices at auction.


05.19.22

Copyright Litigation and Recent Developments: Spring 2022

In our May 2022 copyright update, Manatt’s attorneys summarize recent decisions of interest from the U.S. courts and Copyright Office, and highlight other matters that we’re watching in the coming months.


06.22.20

L.A. County Issues Reopening Guidelines for Entertainment

Los Angeles County continues to move forward in reopening key economic and community sectors that were previously closed or operating in limited capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


06.01.17

Ninth Circuit: Website Moderators May Be Agents of ISPs

On April 7, 2017, the Ninth Circuit revived a copyright infringement case filed by a paparazzi group against social media platform LiveJournal that the district court had dismissed on summary judgment.


09.30.16

TUEs for Performance-Enhancing Drugs Raise Ethical Issues

Recently, the files of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were hacked, revealing previously unknown information about Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), which allow athletes who have medical conditions to use performance-enhancing drugs on WADA's prohibited list.


09.13.16

WADA Creates Chaos in International Sports

The World Anti-Doping Agency has had a string of serious failures