• 07.15.16

    Patchwork Expands as More Cities Adopt Paid Sick Leave

    Following the recent example of Los Angeles and adding to the current patchwork of jurisdictions providing paid sick leave across the country, two other cities have enacted mandatory sick leave for employees.

  • 07.14.16

    VW Will Pay $14.7B in Largest FTC False Ad Suit

    Volkswagen made a $14.7 billion deal with the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the California Attorney General over charges that the auto manufacturer deceived consumers with claims about emissions standards for its cars.

  • 07.14.16

    Sneak Peek: The Future of California’s Cap and Trade

    Few government pronouncements are as highly guarded or anticipated as details of a California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) Cap and Trade amendment package. It may sound wonky, and Janet Yellen may disagree, but California’s Cap and Trade Regulation is a multibillion-dollar-a-year ...

  • 07.14.16

    Denial of Brady's Petition Calls Into Question His Strategy

    Fourteen months after Tom Brady was suspended for 4 games by the NFL Commissioner, after several million dollars worth of litigation, Tom Brady remains suspended for 4 games. 

  • 07.13.16

    Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, July 13, 2016

    The President voices support for a public option; Vermont selects a Medicaid ACO; and Alabama ends enhanced primary care reimbursements.

  • 07.08.16

    eSports Recognizes the Value of Ethics

    Previously unregulated eSports have established an integrity commission, in part to attract corporate sponsorships.

  • 07.08.16

    A Different Approach to Regulatory Relief

    Community banks indeed need regulatory relief. Regulators generally agree, but their hands are tied as a decadelong enforcement environment drags on. Meanwhile, financial technology (fintech) firms assert they should not be subject to banking-type regulatory supervision as long as they are not ...

  • 07.07.16

    Supreme Court: Status Quo in Cuozzo

    On June 20, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee, where it rejected challenges to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) inter partes review (IPR) process and held that (1) PTAB decisions regarding whether to institute IPR proceedings are by statute not subject to ...

  • 07.07.16

    Ad Company's Geotargeting Locates a $1M Penalty

    InMobi, a Singapore-based mobile advertising company, will pay almost $1 million in civil penalties and implement a comprehensive privacy program to settle charges that the company violated the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by deceptively tracking ...

  • 07.07.16

    Will Industry Feel Impact of Supreme Court's Madden Rejection?

    In a disappointing move, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied the petition for certiorari by Midland Funding to hear the case Madden v. Midland Funding. But could the inaction by the Supreme Court be much ado about nothing?

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