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Over the past two decades, there has been a general consensus that courts and antitrust agencies should not presume that a patent conveys market power under the Sherman Act.

With the proliferation of mobile applications providing ride-share, third-party food delivery, and even same-day handyman services has come a national conversation...

On October 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor released a proposed rule to update the test for determining whether a worker is an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or an independent contractor.

In SuperShuttle DFW, Inc., a NLRB, or Board majority overruled its 2014 decision in FedEx Home Delivery and held that shuttle-van-driver franchisees of SuperShuttle at DFW Airport were independent contractors...

The Trump administration has taken two actions that will dramatically increase White House control over federal commissions, boards, and officials that were previously considered independent.

Amidst a blitz of executive action, on February 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled "Ensuring Accountability for all Agencies" (Executive Order) exerting more direct control...

On 26 February 2026, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) that would again modify the framework to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor...

The investigation and revelations highlight the need for NSW workers to seek independent legal advice for their payments.

On November 12, Canadian securities regulators in Ontario, British Columbia, Québec, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nova Scotia published Multilateral Staff Notice 51‑359

The sons of the deceased successfully set aside a joint tenancy between the deceased and her daughter on the basis of undue influence despite the fact that the deceased had received independent legal advice.

In January 2008, the Alternative Investment Managers Association re-published its Offshore Alternative Fund Directors' Guide (the 2008 Guide) recommending that, in order to be considered properly independent, a director should have no executive function with regards to the fund's investment manager, investment adviser or affiliated companies.

Capital Markets Board of Turkey (the "CMB") has made another set of revisions in the Corporate Governance Principles (the "CGPs") by taking into account the concerns raised by ISE Listed Public Companies.

In January 2013, the Council of Ministers had issued a Decree on Determination of Equity Companies Subject to Independent Audit.

On 4 August 2026 the SEC deleted two long dead requirements from its rulebook. SEC.gov | Investment Company Governance Technical Amendments. Specifically, the SEC deleted a requirement that 75% of a fund board be independent and that the board chair be independent, both provisions that had been struck down by a court in 2006, yet were still in the rulebook twenty years later.

Much ink will be spilled in the circles of corporate law about Chancellor McCormick's blockbuster opinion in Tornetta v. Musk, C.A. No. 2018-0408-KSJM .

On October 13 the U.S. Department of Labor will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that advocates a revised set of criteria for independent contractor status under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

The Wage Hour Administrator has issued a detailed formal interpretation of when someone should be classified as an independent contractor or an employee for purposes of the federal wage-hour laws.