In this series, we will explore some of the ways states vary from one another in their employment laws.

A summary of the topics included in the session presented by Richard Bernard and Matt Riopelle and moderated by Jeff Atkin.

Consumer options for light duty diesel vehicles are expected to be slimmer next year.

On January 15, 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency published proposed revisions to the greenhouse gas reporting rule. The proposed revisions are the most substantive changes to the GHGRR since it first became effective in 2009.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed regulations of carbon emissions from new fossil fuel-fired power plants under the authority of Section 111(b) of the Clean Air Act.

As expected, on July 28, 2021, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) formally recommended the CME's SOFR Term Rate.

CEI and CASAA believe that the airlines have the right to prohibit the use of e-cigarettes, but that DOT does not. Rather they say that DOT impermissibly banned the use of e-cigarettes on aircraft through regulation.

This report analyzes key aspects of initial public offerings (IPOs) for technology and life sciences companies that went public in 2016.

On April 5, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a worksite raid on Southeastern Provision, a meatpacking plant located in rural Bean Station, Tennessee.

Name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals have unquestionably altered the landscape of collegiate sports and sparked a billion dollar market for student-athletes.

A number of towage and bunker suppliers have requested the intervention of a district court judge to clarify whether the U.S. Bankruptcy Court has authority to "effectively extinguish... maritime liens" on chartered vessels.

The court was petitioned to appoint an umpire when the arbitrators appointed by the litigants – an insurer and certain insureds – failed to do so.

Andrew Soven, Dan Booker and Molly Campbell secured a precedential Third Circuit victory of a putative class action asserted against firm client M&T Bank Corp. and its subsidiaries.

Life insurance plan beneficiaries were entitled to equitable surcharge where the plan administrator failed to inform the decedent about the need to convert to an individual policy.

In a split decision issued on July 29, 2011, the U.S. Federal Circuit reaffirmed that isolated DNA molecules are patent-eligible subject matter because such isolated molecules do not exist in nature.

Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart denied institution of all six Petitions in Amazon.com, Inc., Amazon.com Services LLC, Amazon Web Services, Inc., and Audible, Inc. v. Audio Pod IP, LLC...

On November 28, 2017, the PTAB issued a final written decision upholding the patentability of U.S. Patent No. 6,667,061 (IPR2016-01096).

On July 27, 2016, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued its Final Determination in Certain Three-Dimensional Systems and Components Thereof, Inv. No. 337-TA-939.

Under 35 U.S.C. §§ 313 and 323, a patent owner (PO) may file a preliminary response to a petition to institute a trial challenging the validity of one or more claims in an issued U.S. patent.

The term for utility patents is typically determined based on the filing date of the priority application, thereby limiting the term of subsequently filed "child" patents.