The healthcare sector's exponential growth continues and the latest projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary are that expenditures will reach a $7.7 trillion by 2032.

The June 2024 Supreme Court decision overturning the Chevron deference doctrine marks a substantial shift in the regulatory landscape for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

A scoping review of 27 studies highlighted that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can lead to negative outcomes in cognitive, mental, physical, and social aspects for older adults.

A story from New Hampshire highlights one of the biggest issues for the foster care system, namely, providing adequate mental health care.

A North Carolina system learned the hard way that one of its employees was shirking responsibilities and faking work reports.

While those of you who frequently work with trademarks are already aware, the USPTO new three month deadline to respond to Trademark Office Actions began last Saturday, December 3.

Gail Holtzman has been nominated to serve on the American Bar Association (ABA) Board of Governors.

Police have charged a principal in Horry County, South Carolina, with failure to report suspected child abuse.

The Georgia Court of Appeals has updated its rules on forms of briefs. Practitioners who rely on "shell" forms to start their briefs need to take a careful look at the Court's...

Juries and judges need authentic documents and photos to resolve factual disputes.

The Louisiana Supreme Court recently reversed itself, finding that the legislature's creation of a safe harbor for old claims of sexual abuse was constitutional, after all.

Continuing its push as the nation's first-mover on privacy, California has passed a bill that will require potentially significant new privacy commitments from online services...

The Ninth Circuit has unanimously ruled that a proposed class action about the wrongful collection and use of children's online data may proceed under various state laws.

The Washington Post recently published a consumer guide to "sketchy" apps. If you are a business owner who offers your customers a website...

LastPass, the cloud storage system for passwords, suffered a breach in late 2022 that has caused ripples in the security world. Some elements of user data were taken, although many were encrypted.

In what may be a first, a state governor has vetoed a comprehensive state privacy bill that had passed both houses of the state legislature. In mid-June, the governor of Vermont refused to sign the bill, saying that the private...

The SECURE Act and the 2.0 version substantially changed the way inherited retirement accounts must distribute.

In one of the more bizarre tech stories from late 2022, the New York Times reported that the owner of Madison Square Garden has started using facial recognition technology to enforce a "no-fly" list of potential patrons.

In late December, a state supreme court ruled that a cyber insurance policy covering physical loss to electronic equipment and "media" did not cover a ransomware attack that left software encrypted...

Colorado is set to be one of five states with a data protection law in place in 2023. Most have followed the lead set by California, which by default does not require consent ...