In the recent election, Californians voted to add an employer-friendly provision to the Labor Code that allows emergency ambulance workers to be on-call during breaks.

The FTC has proposed amendments to its Energy Labeling Rule.

On October 3, 2018, California U.S. District Judge Edward Chen granted a preliminary injunction in the case of Ramos v. Nielsen

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reported receiving enough petitions during the first five business days of April 2019 to meet the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B

The new rule implements the electronic registration requirement, but suspends it for the FY2020 H-1B cap season.

A California federal court found coverage under AIG's general liability policy for the defense and indemnity of email scanning suits against Yahoo!.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) governs petitions for interlocutory appeals of orders that grant or deny class certification and requires that a petition for permission to appeal must be filed

In doing so, the court likewise confirmed that intervening steps by the insured, such as following the directions contained in the bogus emails, did not break the causal chain so as to defeat coverage for "direct" losses.

In the October issue, Ahmad and Fehling discuss two recent decisions with potentially broad implications.

Hurricane Florence has yet to make landfall, but the storm has already wreaked havoc on this weekend's college football schedule, concerts, and other events. West Virginia and NC State postponed...

In connection with its hearings on data security, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a December 12 panel discussion on "The U.S. Approach to Consumer Data Security."

Nobody likes mortgage defaults. Not borrowers, not lenders, not investors, and not the fifty State Attorneys General. Yet defaults and foreclosures continue to mount, and both private litigants and government have taken action.

Employers should prepare themselves for increased scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") in 2015.

The Second Circuit has rejected Chubb subsidiary Federal Ins. Co.'s request for reconsideration of the court's July 6, 2018 decision, confirming that the insurer must cover Medidata's $4.8 million loss under its computer fraud insurance policy.

At a recent securities regulation conference, Bill Hinman, Director of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, indicated that the agency intends to release "plain English" ...

These are the words the DC Circuit used in Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, No. 14-1271, p. 10, to describe the state of play on § 401 certifications affecting hydroelectric facility licensing or re-licensing applications.

On April 26, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office for Civil Rights announced reductions in available penalties for three out of four tiers of privacy and security

On September 5, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held that a class action arising from a 2016 Uber Technologies Inc. ("Uber") data breach must proceed to arbitration.

The acting general counsel of the Federal Election Commission ("FEC") recently published for public comment a draft advisory opinion under the Federal Election Campaign Act

Effective October 1, 2018, Connecticut law requires organizations that experience a security breach affecting Connecticut residents' Social Security numbers to provide 24 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.