The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling in favor of the Federal Trade Commission that the acquisition of an Idaho physician group practice by St. Luke’s Health System violated antitrust laws.

The court's reasoning relied heavily in part on the fact that the CFPB is an independent agency headed by a single director and not by a multi-member commission, and that the director is only removable by the president "for cause."

Many employers have employee handbooks, personnel policies, or other written rules or guidelines to govern their employment policies and practices.

On October 29, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published in the Federal Register its Policy to Encourage Trial Disclosure Programs.

On July 10th, the SEC proposed amendments to Exchange Act Rule 13f-1 that would raise the Form 13F reporting threshold from $100 million to $3.5 billion.

A class action filed in California this month challenges the "100% Natural" claim on Celestial Seasonings’ teas on the basis of testing alleged to have revealed the presence of various pesticides and other toxic elements in the product.

In Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc, No. 19-631, 2020 WL 3633780 (U.S. July 6, 2020), the Supreme Court invalidated the exception for calls

In workplace harassment lawsuits brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers face a considerably greater exposure to liability for harassing acts committed by supervisors than they do for harassment committed by rank-and-file employees.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the New York Department of Financial Services recently issued valuable guidance for financial institutions regarding cyber security.

Section viii of the Hatch-Waxman Act permits an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) applicant to obtain FDA approval to market a generic version of a drug for a non-patented use...

In certain cases, the user of a trademark may establish priority over another user’s mark by "tacking" the date of its first use of a mark onto its use of a subsequent mark.

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The U.S. Treasury finally acted to slow down, if not halt, the rising number of inversion transactions that has had everyone in a frenzy over U.S. corporate tax dysfunction.

Takeaway: Federal courts sitting in diversity are supposed to apply state law. There is a critical distinction, however, between substantive rights created by state law, on the one hand

As noted by our firm earlier this spring, Brazilian authorities have considered delaying the General Personal Data Protection Law's ("Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados" or "LGPD") effective date.