On Friday, March 11, 2011, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (the "CPSC") expects to formally launch a searchable, publicly available consumer product safety information database (the "Database").

A series of decisions recently issued by the Supreme Court of the United States, may alter your workplace and result in an evaluation of your polices and procedures as well as potentially create concerns regarding past litigation with unions.

The Sixth Circuit recently issued a decision in Brown-Forman Corp. v. NLRB that rejected the National Labor Relations Board's ("Board")...

The economic and non-economic business justifications for reviewing your company's employment practices are plentiful. Litigation for employment and labor based claims subject the corporate treasury to the risk of paying damages,

Ohio employers face a distinct layer of financial and operational risk when a Violation of Specific Safety Requirements (VSSR) is alleged in workers' compensation cases. These constitutionally authorized penalties can add 15-50% to claim costs and continue to compound as underlying claims evolve, making early investigation and coordinated legal strategy essential to controlling exposure.

In March, Congress passed comprehensive health care reform: "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Here is the essence of the Act.

Recently, INZ Distributors, Inc./Magic Power Coffee, Inc (Magic Power) came under FDA scrutiny for the marketing of its Magic Power Coffee product, a product available only through online sales.

After over a year of debate, Congress passed legislation in March to reform the health care delivery system in the United States: "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Constellation Designs v. LG Electronics draws a critical line between patent-eligible claims directed to specific technological implementations and ineligible result-oriented optimization claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The ruling also clarifies how patent owners can prove infringement through a flexible, limitation-by-limitation application of industry standards combined with product-specific evidence.

House Bill 3225 was approved by both the House and the Senate, and is awaiting the Governor’s signature.

On May 1, 2026, in Elizabeth Kerwin v. Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital, the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court order that required Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital (“Trinity Health”) to bargain with its union.

Employers should recognize three common mistakes in determining a valid workers' compensation claim and in preparing to defend an invalid claim ...

With thousands of kids spending countless hours texting on their phones and frolicking on the virtual playground created by Facebook and other social media sites, it was inevitable that the same bad behaviors affecting the real world would carry over into cyberspace.

As reported in previous Dinsmore & Shohl Legal Alerts, the December 2008 breach of a coal ash impoundment at the Tennessee Valley Authority's facility in Kingston, Tennessee resulted in the spill of over 5 million cubic yards of coal ash into adjacent waterways and properties.

Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, an invention may be deemed unpatentable if it is directed an abstract idea without "significantly more." In January 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("CAFC") issued...

If state or federal authorities knocked on your door tomorrow, would you know how to prepare for, weather, and respond to a criminal investigation of your business?

I do it. You do it. Virtually everybody does it. The "it" is using your computer at work, or your company-issued cell phone, or your work e-mail account accessed remotely, to conduct non-business-related communications.

The SEC Division of Examinations issued a Risk Alert on June 9, 2026, providing the Division’s observations regarding advisers’ obligations relating to conflicts of interest disclosures.

In recently decided Sound View Innovations, LLC v. Hulu, LLC, ("Sound View"), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a district court holding that Sound View Innovations' patent...

On June 22, 2010, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its decision in "McFee v. Nursing Care Management of America, Inc. dba Pataskala Oaks Care Center".