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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


09.09.16

WADA Assessed Credibility of NY Times Informant As Lacking

A May 13, 2016, New York Times article blew the whistle on alleged Russian state-sponsored doping.


09.06.16

No Grounds Yet Stated for Russian Olympic Ban

The Court of Arbitration for Sport this last July 21 confirmed a decision that many Russian athletes would be banned from the Olympics without a determination for each of the athletes whether they had done anything wrong.


09.02.16

Court of Arbitration for Sport Has Overstepped Its Competence

The so-called Supreme Court of Sport has recently made decisions that affect a sovereign nation.