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On December 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a request for public comments on a new “Draft Policy ...
On November 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA ...
On November 22, 2021, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a Notice of Commission Determination in Certain Percussive Massage Devices, Inv. No. 337 ...
On Monday, November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Infrastructure Act”), Public Law No: 117-58 ...
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On November 15, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule1 implementing, without substantial modification, its September proposed ...
Plaintiffs of all stripes have for the past several years advanced in more than 3,000 lawsuits nationwide a novel legal theory that the pharmaceutical ...
On October 20, 2021, Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), and Independent ...
On November 3, 2021, the House Committee on the Judiciary voted 23 to 17 to report proposed legislation H.R. 4777, the Nondebtor Release Prohibition ...
Last week, Senators Marco Rubio (R, FL) and Raphael Warnock (D, GA) introduced bipartisan legislation titled the “Protecting Sensitive Personal Data Act” (the ...
Introduction Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco recently announced a Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative by the Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting companies that fail to ...
On September 29, 2021, the SEC issued a proposing release (the “Release”) containing rule and form amendments that, if adopted, would: expand the ...
On September 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a favorable decision for the plaintiff hospital in Toledo Hospital ...
Introduction On October 28, 2021, at the American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco discussed ...
In a very exciting development for the UK funds industry, the UK Government has released its final policy paper for the new Asset Holding Companies ...
On September 27, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 62, known as the Garment Worker Protection Act. The Act is intended ...
On Thursday, October 21, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or the “Commission”) announced that it awarded a historic award of ...
Last month the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the “MHRA”) launched a public consultation on the future of medical device regulation in ...
The recent Delaware Chancery Court decision of Paul A. Rosenbaum, et al. v. CytoDyn Inc., et al. reinforces a board’s ability to enforce ...
On October 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed amendments (the Proposal) to final rules released by the Trump Administration on investment ...
On Thursday, October 7, the Biden Administration published in the Federal Register its second interim final rule implementing the “No Surprises Act,” which ...
Third-party, or nondebtor, releases have continued to attract attention from both commentators and legislators in the wake of recent cases such as Purdue Pharma ...
The following summarizes a number of recent legal developments of note affecting the mutual fund/investment management industry: SEC Proposes to Expand Proxy Voting Reporting ...
Introduction Angola has sought a path forward from its complicated past, which included nearly 40 years of dictatorship rule, a civil war, and a complicated ...
Employees, not “Student-Athletes” On September 29, 2021, Jennifer Abruzzo, the recently appointed General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB ...