Today the U.S. Senate endorsed all provisions in H.R. 1249: Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, a comprehensive patent reform bill.

A discussion on the recent opinion, in re Century Aluminum Co. Securities Litigation,where the Ninth Circuit provided support for an increasingly vigorous application of the Twombly/Iqbal pleading standard.

On March 26, 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the "Agencies") jointly issued for comment proposed new leveraged lending guidance, to be applicable to substantially all financial institutions regulated by the Agencies, that would replace the existing guidance issued in April 2001.

This is an updated version of the StayCurrent Client Alert published on 2 July 2012 "New Italian Measures Facilitate Debt Restructuring and Protect DIP Financing", following the conversion of law decree No. 83 of 22 June 2012 (with amendments) (the "Decree") into law No. 134 of 7 August 2012.

The March 11, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which the Japanese government formally named as the "Great Eastern Japan Earthquake" (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) was undeniably a disaster of Biblical proportions.

On July 26, 2011, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued a long-awaited final rule implementing the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA") applicable to Money Services Businesses ("MSBs") with regard to stored value, or prepaid access ("Prepaid Access Final Rule" or "Final Rule").

Recent pronouncements from the courts and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") have begun to shed some light on what preemption for national banks and federal savings associations will look like on and after July 21, 2011, the effective date of the preemption provisions of Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act").

It has long been the case that third party beneficiaries may, under certain circumstances, enforce a contract to which they are not a party.

On October 25, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, decided Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC.

On March 1, 2013, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in "In re Texas Grand Prairie Hotel Realty" that a bankruptcy court did not err when it confirmed a "cramdown" chapter 11 plan that proposed to pay a dissenting secured lender interest calculated at the national prime rate plus 1.75%.

On January 26, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its long-anticipated ruling in Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo,1 in which it previously vacated an anti-enforcement judgment prohibiting a group of Ecuadorian plaintiffs from seeking to enforce an $18 billion judgment anywhere outside of Ecuador.

On July 29, 2011, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided "Ass'n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. See" No. 2010-1406 (Fed. Cir. July 29, 2011).

On August 16, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., No. 2010-1406, on remand from the Supreme Court to consider the impact of Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus, Inc., 566 U.S. ___, 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012).

Much has been written about the California Supreme Court’s developing jurisprudence regarding the standing requirements of California’s Unfair Competition Law ("UCL") Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200, et seq. and California’s False Advertising Law ("FAL") Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17500, et seq., specifically in the wake of the Court’s opinions in In re Tobacco II Cases, 46 Cal. 4th 298 (2009) and Kwikset Corp. v. Super. Ct. (Benson), 51 Cal. 4th 310 (2011).

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On June 22, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") adopted rules and rule amendments (the "Final Rules") designed to implement a number of significant changes applicable to private investment funds and their managers imposed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act").