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May.16.2012 D.C. Circuit Loosens Public Disclosure Bar While Tightening the Reins on Damages
May.15.2012 CORRECTION: Congress to Vote on Radically Altering CFC's Bid Protest Timeliness Rules
May.11.2012 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Citizen Suit Based on Pre-Existing Consent Decree
May.08.2012 The NLRB's Acting General Counsel Asserts an Unprecedented Challenge to Employee Handbook Receipt Provisions
May.07.2012 "Toto – We Can't Be In Kansas": Kansas Supreme Court Scuttles Rule of Reason for Resale Price Agreements Under State Law
May.04.2012 OSHA Changes to MSDS and Chemical Labeling: May 11 Public Meeting on the New GHS Standards
May.04.2012 This Month In International Trade - April 2012
May.03.2012 New Presidential Order Aims to Help Bridge International Regulatory Discrepancies
May.03.2012 Eighth Circuit Approves Use of Fraud Guidelines for Antitrust Crimes
May.03.2012 Seventh Circuit Authorizes An "Issue Class Action" in Response to Dukes
May.02.2012 California High Court Rejects Fee Request For Rest Break Claims
May.02.2012 PRM Group Hosts Luncheon With CPSC Commissioner Northup
May.02.2012 Saudi Law Update
May.01.2012 Shoura Approves New Food System
Apr.30.2012 What You Should Know in the New Era of Transparent Internal Audits
Apr.27.2012 Routine Request Still "Undisputed" Years Later
Apr.27.2012 Attempted Country of Origin Engineering to Avoid Antidumping Duties Leads to False Claims Act Exposure
Apr.25.2012 NHTSA Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Expand Regulation of Accelerator Control Systems
Apr.25.2012 Caution: Bankruptcy-Remote Entities Are Not Necessarily Bankruptcy Proof
Apr.24.2012 D.C. Circuit Fetters Government Discretion to Settle Qui Tam Claims Over Relator's Objection
Apr.20.2012 Air Force Debarment Official To Speak At OOPS
Apr.19.2012 A First Step or an Empty Gesture: Relaxing Sanctions against Burma/Myanmar?
Apr.18.2012 NLRB Notice Posting Rule Delayed
Apr.17.2012 Brinker – Was It Worth The Wait For Employers?
Apr.17.2012 Federal Circuit Holds That Settlement Negotiations Are Not Privileged
Apr.16.2012 Preparing For May Day, And Beyond, At The NLRB
Apr.13.2012 Maryland Takes the Lead on Social Media Access Legislation
Apr.13.2012 Failure to Comply with Section L Instructions Invalidates Award
Apr.10.2012 This Month In International Trade - March 2012
Apr.06.2012 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - April 2012
Apr.04.2012 Proposed Revisions to Interagency Leveraged Lending Guidance
Apr.04.2012 Statute of Limitations Runs from Receipt of Auditable Information
Apr.03.2012 New MLR Final Rule for Community Rated Plans Under FEHBP
European Commission Publishes Antitrust Manual of Procedures
Mar.29.2012 Supreme Court Allows Pre-Enforcement Jurisdictional Challenges To EPA Compliance Orders - Applicability Beyond the Clean Water Act Is Unclear
Mar.27.2012 Citizen Suit Watch: Federal Court Demands EPA Review of Nonpoint Source Regulations As Part of Water Quality Standard Review
Mar.23.2012 Transgender Employees Protected By Federal Law Against Discrimination
Mar.20.2012 New CIETAC Arbitration Rules 2012
Mar.16.2012 NAFI Or Not, Contractors Can Sign Away Their Right To Appeal
Mar.14.2012 CFTC Issues Final Rules Regarding Exemptions, Registration and Compliance Obligations for CPOs and CTAs of Public and Private Funds
Mar.14.2012 DOJ Prosecution of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise for Trade Secrets Theft Offers Lessons for U.S. Businesses
Mar.13.2012 Cyber Regs Toughened Up
Mar.08.2012 Potential for Change in Anti-Money Laundering Laws & Regulations: New FATF Recommendations, FinCEN Calls for Comments on Customer Due Diligence Procedures
Mar.07.2012 This Month In International Trade - February 2012
Mar.06.2012 Highlights from ICPHSO 2012
Mar.01.2012 Saudi Shoura Council Approves Draft Amended Anti-Money Laundering Law
Feb.29.2012 Airport Public-Private Partnerships Taking Off?
Feb.28.2012 European TMT & Privacy Bulletin - February 2012
Feb.27.2012 Appeals Court Finds Encrypted Data Beyond Reach of Government Investigators
Feb.27.2012 New GSA Contract Vehicle
Feb.23.2012 Federal Court Imposes Broad Preservation Obligation Regarding Potential Class Members in FLSA Action
Feb.23.2012 Substantial Penalties Under the FCA Without Real Damages Violates Eighth Amendment
Feb.21.2012 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Supreme Court of Illinois Rejects Attack on Mining Permit Reclamation Plan
Feb.17.2012 Registration Deadline Looms for Companies Seeking New gTLDs
Feb.16.2012 California and the USDOL Stake Out Common Ground in Focusing on Alleged Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors
Feb.14.2012 Department of Labor Proposes FMLA Rule on Leave for Caregivers to Servicemembers and Airline Flight Crew Employees
Feb.14.2012 Inadequate Documentation Dooms Cost Realism Evaluation
Feb.10.2012 Bundeskartellamt and Public Prosecutors Jointly Focusing on the Prosecution of Bid Rigging
Feb.10.2012 No SBA Protest Review of Approved 8(a) Mentor-Protégé JVs
Feb.08.2012 This Month In International Trade - January 2012
Feb.08.2012 Cyber on the Hill
Feb.07.2012 DOL Issues Long-Awaited Final Rules For Service-Provider Compensation Disclosures Under ERISA
Feb.06.2012 Congress Readies Its Cudgel: Expansive New Iran Sanctions Advance Through The Senate
Feb.06.2012 C&M Top Ranked, Again
Feb.03.2012 Second Circuit Weighs in Again on Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements
Feb.03.2012 DCAA's Use of a Statistically Invalid Analysis for Testing Compensation Reasonableness
Feb.02.2012 NLRB Clarifies Its Position Regarding Employees' Social Media Usage
Feb.02.2012 Inconsistent Statute of Limitations Decisions -- Or Not?
Feb.01.2012 Will Cyber War Come to a Contract Near You?
Jan.31.2012 Recent Developments In EU Export Controls And Sanctions
Jan.31.2012 New Jersey Adopts the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
Jan.30.2012 IR&D Reporting Requirements Reinstated
Jan.30.2012 Circuit Court Reinforces That Neither Lack Of Novelty Nor Ability To Reverse Engineer Are Defenses To Trade Secret Misappropriation
Jan.27.2012 FTC Proposes Changes to Rules Governing Investigatory Procedures, Primarily to Address Issues Regarding Electronically Stored Information
Jan.26.2012 CFC Weighs in on Timeliness of OCI Protest
Jan.26.2012 “Collyer Lite” -- NLRB Announces Limitation on Collyer Deferral
Jan.26.2012 FTC Increases HSR and Section 8 Thresholds
Jan.25.2012 FMLA Protections from Interference and Retaliation Extended to Pre-Eligible Employees
Jan.24.2012 NAFI Contractor Goes Straight to Court When CO Fails to Issue Final Decision
Jan.20.2012 Recent Guidance For The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights at The EU Border
Jan.20.2012 CAS/PPA Harmonization Rules
Jan.19.2012 Federal Court Rejects Expansive Interpretation of Criminal Liability Under Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Jan.18.2012 Congress Enacts Appropriations Restriction Relating to Felony Convictions
Jan.17.2012 Crowell & Moring's Top Ten Copyright Cases of the Last Year
Jan.12.2012 NLRB and FINRA Signal Federal Push To Create A Right for Employees To Pursue Collective Litigation Regardless of Arbitration Agreements
Jan.12.2012 90-Day Filing Window Opens for New Internet Top-Level Domain Applications
Jan.11.2012 For the New Year, Out with Origin but In with New Definitions of Source & Nationality
Jan.09.2012 IRS Issues Updated Guidance on Mandatory Form W-2 Informational Reporting of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
Jan.09.2012 This Month In International Trade - December 2011
Jan.09.2012 Turn Square Corners or Sit on Sideline
Jan.05.2012 New DOT Regulations Require Commercial Truckers to Hit the "Breaks"
Jan.05.2012 Executive Compensation Limits Expanded
Jan.03.2012 Contractors Can Review and Object to Public Release of Information in FAPIIS
Dec.29.2011 NASA Pushes FAR, Far Away for Commercial Crew Program
Dec.28.2011 Congress Proposes Changes to Technical Data Rights Statutes
Dec.27.2011 Private Plaintiffs May Assert Common Law Claims In Securities-Related Litigation Under New York Law
Dec.22.2011 NLRB Issues Final Rule On "Quickie" Elections
Dec.22.2011 NHTSA Proposes New Rules To Address Keyless Ignition Safety
Dec.14.2011 "Sea Change" in OFCCP Disability Regulations Would Mean Increased Turbulence for Contractors
Dec.09.2011 General Court Confirms Commission Decision Not To Investigate Cartridge Market For Ink Jet Printers
Dec.08.2011 The ITC Can Play A Critical Role In Combating International Trade Secret Theft
Dec.07.2011 DoD Opens Dialogue With Industry on Open-Source Software
Dec.06.2011 This Month In International Trade - November 2011
Dec.06.2011 NLRB Scales Back -- But Not By Much -- The New "Quickie" Election Rules it Proposed on June 22, 2011
Dec.06.2011 Copyright Royalty Board Announces Increase in Licensing Fees for Performance of Musical Compositions by Colleges and Universities
Dec.01.2011 European Commission Gives High-Level Guidance on Antitrust Compliance
Dec.01.2011 Federal Funding Opportunity: Challenge Grant Announcement Solicits Proposals Totaling $1 Billion to Promote Health Care Innovation
Nov.22.2011 The Noose Tightens; The U.S., UK, and Canada Announce Coordinated Sanctions on Iran
Nov.22.2011 The "Super Committee" Failed – What Now?
Nov.21.2011 Federal Court Upholds OFCCP Demand For Data
Nov.18.2011 New Post-Employment "Revolving Door" Certification
Nov.18.2011 Antitrust Division Challenges Montana Plan's Deal with Hospitals
Nov.17.2011 Weeding Out Bad Contractors -- The Government's Push to Enhance its Suspension and Debarment Function
Nov.09.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Tenth Circuit Rejects Article III Standing For Local District Attorney in Multi-Party Clean Water Act Citizen Suit
Nov.09.2011 OSHA Revises Its Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Rules Impacting Public Companies and Their Affiliates and Subsidiaries
Nov.08.2011 Earlier Complaint Fails 9(b), But Bars FCA Suit
Nov.07.2011 European TMT & Privacy Bulletin - October 2011
Nov.04.2011 US Liable for Environmental Remediation Costs Under Contract Clauses
Nov.03.2011 IG Confirms Many Recovery Act Criminal Investigations
Nov.03.2011 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - October 2011
Nov.02.2011 This Month In International Trade - October 2011
Nov.02.2011 Final Rule Governing Personal Conflicts of Interest of Contractor and Subcontractor Employees Supporting or Performing Certain Acquisition Functions
Nov.02.2011 What You Should Know About U.S. Copyright Office’s New White Paper on Mass Digitization of Copyrighted Works
Nov.02.2011 German Constitutional Court Declines to Rule on National Legislation Strictly Implementing European Law
Oct.31.2011 Nevada Supreme Court Rules Common Law Doctrine of Unconscionability Preempted By Medicare Advantage Law
Oct.31.2011 Update on the Polar Bear-Endangered Species Act Multidistrict Litigation
Oct.27.2011 Chance to Change Pricing Generally Required After Corrective Action
Oct.27.2011 SEC Approves Private Fund Reporting Rule
Oct.26.2011 CFC Finds Unreasonable Deviation from Customary Commercial Practices
Oct.25.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Third Circuit Reverses Lower Court's Dismissal of Citizen Suit on Abstention Grounds
Oct.24.2011 Veterans Affairs Snubs GAO?
Oct.21.2011 California Seating Lawsuits Meeting Resistance, But Employers Shouldn't Sit Idly By
Oct.21.2011 Crowell & Moring Files Amicus Brief In Support of Cert Petitions Seeking Review of the Ninth Circuit's Ruling on Clean Water Act Permitting for Forest Roads
Oct.21.2011 Interest Due On Indirect Cost Claims
Oct.21.2011 Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases Final ACO Rule and Additional Guidance
Oct.21.2011 IOM Issues Report, Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Coverage and Costs
Oct.17.2011 Long-Stalled Trade Legislation Finally Passes Congress
Oct.14.2011 European Court of Justice Further Supports Internet Sales
Oct.12.2011 California Enacts Legislation Limiting Employers' Use of Consumer Credit Reports for Employment Purposes
Oct.11.2011 Federal Court Rejects EPA Overreaching Into Clean Water Act Section 404 Permitting in Victory for Crowell & Moring Client National Mining Association
Oct.07.2011 NLRB Postpones Implementation of Its New Employee Rights Posting Requirement
Oct.07.2011 CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Revise Medicare Parts C and D Regulations
Oct.04.2011 CMS Confirms Hospitals May Not Bill Secondary Payor Insurers For Amounts In Excess Of Medicare Coinsurance And Deductible Amounts
Oct.03.2011 The 2012 ICC Rules of Arbitration: New Rules, New Responsibilities
Sep.30.2011 This Month In International Trade - September 2011
Sep.30.2011 SBA Cannot Replace Agency Responsibility Findings with Its Own
Sep.29.2011 Seattle Enacts Ordinance Requiring Paid Sick Leave and Paid Safe Time
Sep.28.2011 BOEMRE Proposes Additional SEMS Program Requirements
Sep.28.2011 Proposed Legislation To Tax "Carried Interests" as Ordinary Income
Sep.28.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Court Invalidates Arizona Legislation That Eliminated Funding Mechanism For A Clean Air Act State Implementation Plan
Sep.28.2011 Claim Accrues Before an Impasse
Sep.28.2011 Under New York Law, A Borrower In Distress Is Not Necessarily Under Economic Duress
Sep.28.2011 Landmark EU Court Ruling Annuls Anti-Dumping Measures For Lack of Injury Causation
Sep.26.2011 How Do You Prove Prejudice in a Protest?
Sep.26.2011 Third Circuit Affirms Injunctive Relief to Resource Producers in Marcellus Shale Region of Pennsylvania, Blocking Harmful NEPA Settlement That Imposed U.S. Forest Service Drilling Ban in 500,000-acre Allegheny National Forest
Sep.23.2011 The UK Takeover Code – Key Changes 19 September 2011
Sep.22.2011 Sweeping U.S. Patent Law Changes - America Invents Act
Sep.21.2011 DOD Revises IP Commercial Item Rules
Sep.20.2011 District Court Carves Out "Trade Secret Exception" to California Ban on Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements
Sep.20.2011 OMB Announces New "Goal" for Agencies to Accelerate Payments to Small Businesses
Sep.16.2011 Mandatory Display of Fraud Posters
Sep.15.2011 NLRB Makes Employee Rights Poster Available on its Website Shortly After Commencement of a Lawsuit Challenging its Posting Rule
Sep.14.2011 Proposal To Further Executive Branch Employees' Acceptance Of Gifts From Lobbyists
Sep.13.2011 Supreme Court Holds FOIA Response Falls Within FCA Public Disclosure Bar
Sep.09.2011 National Labor Relations Board Alters Landscape for Determining the Scope of Petitioned-For Bargaining Units
Sep.08.2011 The NLRB Overrules Prior Decisions to Reinstate "Recognition Bar" Protection for Unions Voluntarily Recognized and "Successor Bar" Protection for Incumbent Unions
Sep.06.2011 NLRB Imposes New Employee Rights Posting Requirement on Covered Employers
Aug.31.2011 This Month In International Trade - August 2011
Aug.26.2011 CMS issues regulations implementing the Medicare Improvements to Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008
Aug.19.2011 Elimination of CAS Exemption for Overseas Contracts and Subcontracts
Aug.19.2011 Targeting Syria: New US and EU Sanctions?
Aug.18.2011 Following GAO Recommendation Doesn't Insulate Agency's Action After Protest
Aug.16.2011 Syria and Lebanon Strengthen Investment Ties Despite Political Uncertainty and Instability
Aug.16.2011 OFCCP Seeks Input on Development of New Compensation Reporting Tool
Aug.12.2011 11th Circuit Ruling On PPACA Constitutionality
Aug.11.2011 Employee Absences for Medical Reasons: An Expanding Source of Liability
Aug.08.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Second Circuit Demands Listing of Specific Contaminants to Satisfy Notice Requirements for RCRA Citizen Suits
Aug.02.2011 CFC Dismisses Protest of SBA Decision Not to Reopen Size Determination
Jul.29.2011 This Month In International Trade - July 2011
Jul.26.2011 European Commission Issues Green Paper To Launch Reform Of The EU’s Dual-Use Export Controls
Jul.26.2011 CPSC Votes To Publish Requirements for Third Party Testing and Certification to the Mandatory Toy Safety Standard Effective January 1, 2012
Jul.20.2011 Is The US Looking Across The Pond?; Texas Enacts Tort Reform Law With "Loser Pays" Provision
Jul.20.2011 CFC Faults Agency for Circumventing Protests
Jul.15.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Tenth Circuit Adopts Broad View of Issue Preclusion and Parens Patriae in Affirming Dismissal of Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
Jul.15.2011 On Eve of Annual Update Conference, Commerce Announces Proposed Rule To Address Future Controls Over Items Removed From USML
Jul.15.2011 Mandatory Indian Merger Control: What You Need to Know
Jul.14.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Court Dismisses a Master Complaint in the Deepwater Horizon Multi-District Litigation
Jul.14.2011 CPSC Votes to Lower Lead Content Ban for Children's Products to 100 ppm
Jul.13.2011 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July 2011
Jul.12.2011 Department of Health and Human Services Releases Affordable Insurance Exchange Proposed Regulations
Jul.07.2011 FTC Requires More Documents With Revised HSR Notification Form
Jul.06.2011 EU Relents on Duty Free Status for Technology Products, But Limited Scale Will Result in Continued Litigation
Jul.06.2011 Agency Failure to Consider Proposal Differences Invalidates Award
Jul.05.2011 United States Supreme Court Declines To Expand U.S. Jurisdictional Reach Over Foreign Manufacturers Including Foreign Subsidiaries Of U.S. Companies
Jul.01.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: District Court to Enjoin Use of Pesticide Pending Completion of Endangered Species Act Consultation
Jul.01.2011 OFCCP Drumbeat Continues: Agency Announces New FAAP Procedures
Jul.01.2011 This Month In International Trade - June 2011
Jun.30.2011 The NLRB and USDOL Issue Controversial Proposed Regulations To Aid Union Organizing
Jun.30.2011 UK Bribery Act – Ready or Not, Here It Comes
Jun.30.2011 Texas Supreme Court Expands Scope of Enforceable Non-Competes
Jun.30.2011 OFAC Continues Focus on the Reinsurance Industry: General Re and Iran
Jun.29.2011 FTC Hosts Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights In Standard Setting: Tools to Prevent Patent Hold-Up
Jun.28.2011 New SEC Investment Adviser Regulations: What Do You Need To Know?
Jun.28.2011 Supreme Court Changes The Class Action Landscape In Dukes v. Wal-Mart
Jun.24.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Ninth Circuit Rejects CERCLA Citizen Suit Jurisdiction Over Pursuit of UAO Penalties
Jun.23.2011 Section 508 Compliance Takes Hit from the Federal Circuit
Jun.22.2011 Hidden Discount Judgment of $2 Billion Against Ford: Implications for Pricing Systems
Jun.21.2011 Antitrust Division Issues Updated Policy Guide to Merger Remedies
Jun.20.2011 ICANN Fires the Starting Gun for New gTLD Applications
Jun.20.2011 No Preferential T&C's Mods Allowed for Commercial Item Buys
Jun.17.2011 Likely OCI Due to Unequal Information Access Yields PI
Jun.17.2011 Export Control Reform: BIS Finalizes Strategic Trade Authorization License Exception
Jun.15.2011 Supreme Court Limits the Meaning of "Making" a Statement Under Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act
Jun.14.2011 Ineffective Insider Traders Avoid Double Whammy of a Failed Trade and Civil Penalties
Jun.14.2011 The Sun Has Not Set On Protests Of Civilian Agency Task Orders
Jun.13.2011 Trade Secret Misappropriation and Non-Competes Across (California) State Lines: What Law Governs?
Jun.10.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Recent District Court Decisions Illustrate Reach of Diligent Prosecution Defense For Post-Consent Decree Citizen Suits
Jun.09.2011 Connecticut to Become First State to Mandate Guaranteed Paid Sick-Leave Time for Employees
Jun.08.2011 EEOC Proposes to Extend Title VII and ADA Recordkeeping Requirements to Include Entities Covered by GINA
Jun.07.2011 Supreme Court Rules on Scope of Federal Contractors' Rights in Federally Funded Inventions
Jun.02.2011 State of New York Files Suit Against Federal Agencies Seeking Environmental Review of Natural Gas Development in the Delaware River Basin
Jun.02.2011 New Rule Prescribes Data Required for Adequate Final Indirect Cost Rate Proposal
Jun.01.2011 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 26, Issue 1 - (Spring 2011)
May.31.2011 Fifth Circuit Applies Recent Supreme Court Decision to Revive Son's Title VII Retaliation Claim Based on Father's Protected Activity
May.31.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: Ninth Circuit Asserts Citizen Suit Jurisdiction Over Challenge To Longstanding Regulation And Reaffirms Clean Water Act Permitting Requirements For Forest Roads
May.31.2011 Capital Costs Must be Treated as Indirect Costs
May.31.2011 This Month In International Trade - May 2011
May.27.2011 Rambus Redux: Federal Circuit Reconciles District Court Split Regarding When Duty To Preserve Is Triggered
May.27.2011 Transportation Leaders Propose Massive Public-Private Partnership Project in Northeast Rail Corridor
May.26.2011 EU TMT & Privacy Bulletin - May 2011
May.26.2011 Think That California Lawsuits Over Seating Concern Only Retail Cashiers? Think Again
May.24.2011 Circuit Court Rules No Cause of Action for Discrimination Against Debtors
May.24.2011 SEC Proposes Changes to the Qualified Client Definition
May.23.2011 Interim Business Systems Rule Issued
May.23.2011 A-12 Litigation - After 20 Years a Draw - Or is it?
May.20.2011 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2011
May.19.2011 CMS Rules on Premium Increases
May.19.2011 New Accountable Care Model Information From CMS
May.18.2011 NLRB Sues Arizona in Federal Court over Constitutional Amendment Requiring Secret Ballot Elections for Union Representation
May.18.2011 Certificateholder Does Not Have "Party In Interest" Standing To Be Heard On Innkeepers' Bidding Procedures Motion
May.18.2011 Are You Leaving Duty Refunds on the Table? Pursuing Duty-Free Imports Under the Information Technology Agreement
May.17.2011 You Wanna Sue Your Employer for Overtime? The Labor Department Has an App for That!
May.16.2011 CITIZEN SUIT WATCH: State Enforcement Does Not Bar RCRA Citizen Suit, As Seventh Circuit Narrowly Construes Federal Abstention
May.16.2011 Second Circuit Declines to Impose Securities Act Liability Against Rating Agencies
May.16.2011 Supremes Hold FOIA Response Satisfies FCA Public Disclosure Bar
May.16.2011 Philadelphia Is Latest Jurisdiction to "Ban the Box" in Hiring Processes
May.16.2011 Export Controls: Long Overdue But Still Waiting – ITAR Amendment on Dual/Third-Country Nationals
May.13.2011 California High-Speed Rail: On the Fast Track
May.09.2011 The Great Dissenter Reviewed
May.06.2011 Touhy Fooey
May.02.2011 DOD to Pay All Small Businesses Faster
Apr.29.2011 OFAC Continues Iran Insurance Penalty Focus
Apr.26.2011 Proposed FAR Provision Governing Organizational Conflicts of Interest
Apr.12.2011 New York State Department of Labor Issues Guidance and Sample Templates in Connection With the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act
Apr.11.2011 The Wait Is Over for Women-Owned Small Businesses
Apr.11.2011 Judge Decides Not to Pick-A-Fight with Pick-A-Payment
Apr.08.2011 We're Staying Open to Handle Your Shutdown Questions
Apr.07.2011 EEOC Issues Final Regulations on ADA Amendments Act of 2008
Apr.06.2011 Small Business Set-Aside Rules Inapplicable to FSS Purchases
Apr.04.2011 New York Wage Theft Prevention Act Takes Effect on April 9, 2011
Apr.04.2011 The False Claims Act's Seal Provisions Upheld
Apr.04.2011 UK Bribery Act - Guidance Issued
Apr.04.2011 USPTO Announces Prioritized Examination for One Year Prosecution Available May 4th
Apr.01.2011 IRS Issues Guidance on Mandatory Form W-2 Informational Reporting of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
Mar.31.2011 Agency's "Mail Storm" Excuses Late Proposal
Mar.28.2011 Oral Complaints are Sufficient to Support an FLSA Retaliation Claim
Mar.24.2011 Government Contracts at the High Court
Mar.22.2011 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2011
Mar.16.2011 Enhanced Requirements for Cost-Reimbursement Contracting
Mar.09.2011 Allowability of IR&D Costs: Dis-inflation Run Amok
Mar.04.2011 Highlights from ICPHSO 2011
Mar.04.2011 Federal Circuit Compounds Contractors' Interest Problems
Mar.02.2011 SBA Shakes Up 8(a) Program Regulations
Mar.01.2011 Compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards May Not Equal Preemption
Feb.28.2011 Bid Protests Workshop: Practice, Procedure and Strategy
Feb.28.2011 Libya Sanctions Redux - Qadhafi on the Outs Again
Feb.25.2011 Shutdown Suspicions? Crowell & Moring Identifies the Questions You Should Be Asking
Feb.23.2011 Take Care to Preserve Ordering and Option Rights
Feb.17.2011 Proposed Amendments to Brussels Regulation on European Union Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments
Feb.16.2011 Payment for "Subcontractor" Services on T&M Contracts
Feb.14.2011 UK Financial Services Authority decision on disclosure of future contingent consideration by listed acquirors
Feb.14.2011 California Supreme Court Holds that Collecting and Recording Zip Codes During Credit Card Transactions Violates California Law
Feb.11.2011 OHA Authority and Impact Expanded
Feb.10.2011 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2011
Feb.08.2011 D.C. Circuit Adopts Implied Certification, But Rejects Collective Knowledge
Feb.08.2011 IRS Holds that Trade Association's Common Identifier Program Is Not Subject to UBIT
Feb.04.2011 Novation Trap For The Unwary
Feb.04.2011 Crowell & Moring's Top Ten Copyright Cases of the Last Year
Feb.03.2011 Iran Sanctions Enforcement and Reinsurance
Feb.02.2011 Tucker Act Reaches More NAFIs Than Many Thought
Feb.02.2011 OFT Investigates Possible RPM in Relation to E-books
Feb.02.2011 CPSC Votes To Extend Stay of Certification and Third Party Testing Requirements For Total Lead Content In Certain Products, Including Children's Products
Feb.02.2011 Seventh Circuit Permits Reinsurance Arbitration To Proceed, Rules Arbitrator Is Disinterested As Required By Contracts
Feb.01.2011 UK Bribery Act - UK Government succumbs to pressure and delays implementation of the Act
Jan.28.2011 OFCCP Directive Continues Agency's Efforts To Expand Its Jurisdiction Over Health Care Providers
Jan.26.2011 Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Expanding U.S. Jurisdictional Reach over Foreign Manufacturers
Jan.26.2011 NLRB Flexes Its Muscles by Opposing State Constitutional Amendments Requiring the Use of Secret Ballot Elections for Union Representation Purposes and Limiting Deferral to Arbitration
Jan.24.2011 Government to Release Private Contractor Information Contained in FAPIIS
Jan.24.2011 Robust State Enforcement of Minimum Resale Price Maintenance May Require New Approaches to Pricing
Jan.21.2011 FTC Announces Increased HSR and Section 8 Thresholds
Jan.14.2011 Congress Extends GAO's Bid Protest Jurisdiction Over Certain DoD Task And Delivery Orders
Jan.12.2011 Retailers With Websites Containing Store Locator Function Sued In Series of Patent Lawsuits
Jan.12.2011 Congress Extends GAO's Task Order Jurisdiction
Jan.10.2011 Inadequate Justification for Restrictive Requirements Leads to Injunction
Jan.04.2011 DoD Issues Final OCI Rule For Major Programs
Jan.04.2011 Corrections to the Medical Loss Ratio Interim Final Rule
Jan.03.2011 Contractor Team Arrangement Member Has Privity to Pursue Claims Against the Government
Dec.30.2010 DOD Issues Final OCI Rule For Major Programs
Dec.29.2010 When Accounting Firms Speak, Plaintiffs Must Prove They Listened: Requiring Proof of Reliance in Securities Fraud Actions
Dec.23.2010 New York State Hospitality Industry Wage Order Increases the Wages to Be Paid to Tipped Employees and Authorizes Tip Pooling and Tip Sharing
Dec.22.2010 CMS Issues RADV Methodology for Comment
Dec.22.2010 Congress Approves Sweeping Food Safety Legislation
Dec.17.2010 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - December 2010
Dec.15.2010 Fine of € 38 million (US$ 51 million) for Procedural Breach during a 'Dawn Raid' upheld by EU Court
Dec.14.2010 European Commission Adopts New Antitrust Guidelines On Cooperation Between Competitors
Dec.14.2010 When Does a Breach of Contract Violate the False Claims Act?
Dec.13.2010 Effect of Unilateral Contract Assignment Questioned
Dec.13.2010 UK Health & Safety / Employment e-lert: Tis the season to be jolly (well not that jolly!)
Dec.13.2010 Export Control Reform Marches On – Munitions List Revision Underway
Dec.13.2010 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Issued a Declaratory Judgment Today Finding PPACA’s Minimum Essential Coverage Provision Exceeds the Constitutional Boundaries of Congressional Power
Dec.09.2010 CPSC's Final Interpretive Rule Relating To The Public Database Published In The Federal Register Today
Dec.09.2010 Court of Appeals Rules That Grand Jury Subpoenas Trump Civil Protective Orders Covering Foreign Documents
Dec.09.2010 Early Export Control Reform Steps: BIS Proposes New Strategic Trade Authorization License Exception
Dec.07.2010 "Collective Knowledge" Rejected
Dec.03.2010 Highlights from ICPHSO London 2010
Dec.02.2010 Negative Responsibility Determination Overturned
Dec.02.2010 Health Insurance Issuers Implementing Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Requirements Under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Nov.30.2010 New Expert Discovery Disclosure Rules Take Effect Dec. 1, 2010
Nov.30.2010 California's Predatory Pricing Law Differs From Federal Counterpart
Nov.24.2010 Damages Available For Government Breach of CRADA
Nov.24.2010 Proposed OSHA Noise Regulations Reverse Long-Standing Interpretations And Increase Potential Costs To Employers
Nov.18.2010 UK Health & Safety / Employment e-lert: the winter of our discontent
Nov.16.2010 EPA to Expand Chemicals Testing for Endocrine Disruption
Nov.15.2010 CMS Announces One Year Delay Of Requirement To Report Liability Payments Under The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute
Nov.15.2010 ICANN Publishes Its Proposed New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
Nov.11.2010 Third Circuit Court of Appeals Holds that Honorable Engagement Clause Does Not Permit Arbitrators to Fashion Relief Not Requested by the Parties or Rationally Derived from the Contract
Nov.10.2010 Auction Concept Still Lives at CFC
Nov.09.2010 CFTC and SEC Propose New Anti-Manipulation Rules for Swaps and Security-Based Swaps
Nov.08.2010 Resolving Old Audit Issues
Nov.03.2010 ICANN Issues Timeline for New gTLD Program
Oct.29.2010 DOL Again Applies Expansive Interpretation of "Subcontractor"
Oct.28.2010 The EU's New Iran Sanctions Regulation
Oct.27.2010 New Year Will Ring in California "Green Chemistry" Regulations
Oct.27.2010 Marijuana Legalization Under California's Proposition 19: The Impact on Employers
Oct.27.2010 In Pari Delicto Continues to Curtail Financial Fraud Suits Against Professional Service Firms in New York
Oct.22.2010 Privacy & Data Protection
Oct.22.2010 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Oct.22.2010 Contracts & E-Commerce
Oct.20.2010 U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Overturn Decision Permitting International Arbitration Where State Law Prohibited Arbitration Provisions in Insurance Contracts
Oct.19.2010 The CPSC's Draft Final Rule Establishing a Publicly Available Product Safety Information Database Scheduled for Commission Vote on November 17
Oct.12.2010 Market Value is the Price of Holdover Tenancy
Oct.07.2010 CPSC Approves Final Rule Interpreting "Children's Product"
Oct.07.2010 Michigan court upholds PPACA "Individual Mandate"
Oct.06.2010 New Certification of Iran Sanctions Compliance - for You and Your Subsidiaries
Oct.06.2010 FTC Announces Proposed Revisions To "Green Guides"
Oct.05.2010 TINA Threshold Raised but Broader Data Requests Likely
Oct.01.2010 Carrots, Sticks, and Fixes in the New Small Business Jobs and Credit Act
Sep.30.2010 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - September 2010
Sep.29.2010 DOD Proposes Substantial Revision to Intellectual Property Rules
Sep.29.2010 Ninth Circuit En Banc Panel Affirms Fourth Amendment Principles But Steps Back From Required Protocol For Computer Search Warrants
Sep.28.2010 Technology Replacement Clause Requires Actual Replacement
Sep.27.2010 EU Regulatory Update: Deadlines loom for EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation
Sep.24.2010 Compounding The Problem
Sep.23.2010 Leading Judge Issues Seminal 89-Page Opinion Imposing Harsh Sanctions for Spoliation
Sep.20.2010 Federal Trade Commission and Department of Health and Human Services Announce Public Workshops Addressing Legal Implications of Accountable Care Organizations
Sep.14.2010 New Reporting Requirements For Grant and Cooperative Agreement Recipients
Sep.10.2010 Court Rules Cancer in Remission Is Disability under the ADAAA
Sep.09.2010 Challenge To OCI Waiver Falls Short
Sep.02.2010 Court Reviews Decision to Stop Using SBA 8(a) Contract
Sep.02.2010 Federal Circuit's En Banc Princo Decision Limits Patent Misuse Doctrine
Sep.01.2010 Third Circuit Holds Bankruptcy Code Overrides Debtor's Contractual Right to Unilaterally Terminate Retiree Health and Benefit Plans
Sep.01.2010 Ninth Circuit Addresses Medicare Preemption in New Uhm v. Humana Opinion
Aug.31.2010 New Whistleblower Incentives and Protections in the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Aug.30.2010 Worldwide Application of Automatic Stay in Chapter 15 Is Not Necessarily Automatic
Aug.30.2010 State Expressly Authorizes Certain Hand-Carried Exports of Technical Data
Aug.30.2010 Subcontract Unenforceable When Violates SBA Requirements
Aug.26.2010 D.C. Issues Final Regulations for Accrued Sick & Safe Leave Act
Aug.25.2010 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - August 2010
Aug.20.2010 Another Salvo in the War for Control of Contractor "Systems" Approval
Aug.20.2010 FTC and DOJ Issue Final Version of Revised Merger Guidelines
Aug.18.2010 Only Significant OCIs Require Mitigation
Aug.17.2010 Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act Imposes New SEC Reporting Requirements on Publicly Traded Mine Operators
Aug.17.2010 FTC Notices Proposed Changes To HSR Form
Aug.12.2010 CDA's Statute of Limitation Not Jurisdictional
Aug.11.2010 Export Controls: State Offers Salve to Longstanding Irritant for Dual and Third Country Nationals
Aug.10.2010 Wherefore Software In Analyzing Substantial Transformation
Aug.09.2010 Export Controls: Commodity Jurisdiction Requests
Aug.06.2010 Equal Treatment Applies Even If Minimum Discussions Threshold Met
Aug.04.2010 FTC Settles Charges That Intel Violated Section 5 of the FTC Act
Aug.03.2010 FAPIIS Information To Be Publicly Available
Jul.23.2010 World Court Upholds Kosovo's Declaration of Independence
Jul.23.2010 DHS Clamps Down On Lead System Integrators
Jul.22.2010 The UK Bribery Act 2010 – avoid being the ‘April fool’ next year
Jul.21.2010 CFC Rules That GAO Made Faulty OCI Analysis
Jul.20.2010 UK Health & Safety / Employment e-lert: Summertime and the living is easy… or are the risks just too high?.....
Jul.19.2010 ASBCA Hears Past Performance Evaluation Challenges
Jul.15.2010 The New Bounty Hunters: Congress Creates New Incentives to Report Securities and Commodities Fraud
Jul.13.2010 Don't Want a Setoff? Better Say It
Jul.13.2010 California Supreme Court Rejects "Pass-on" Defense for Antitrust Damages
Jul.12.2010 Interim Rule Requires Federal Contractors to Report Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards
Jul.09.2010 Reporting Requirements For Executive Compensation And First-Tier Subcontract Awards
Jul.01.2010 Privacy & Data Protection
Jul.01.2010 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Jul.01.2010 Contracts & E-Commerce
Jul.01.2010 Electronic Communications & IT
Jun.30.2010 Health Care Reform Regulations Arrive – Now What? What You Need to Know Right Now About Health Care Reform Regulations (So Far)
Jun.30.2010 Sarbanes-Oxley Survives but Supreme Court Bolsters Discretion to Remove PCAOB Members
Jun.29.2010 Welcome Revisions to the Encryption Export Control Regulations
Jun.29.2010 CFC Dismisses Adverse Past Performance Challenge
Jun.28.2010 F-Cubed Securities Litigation Foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court
Jun.28.2010 Supreme Court's Bilski Decision: Business Method Patents Survive, at Least for Now
Jun.25.2010 The Best Defense Is A CDA-Compliant Offense
Jun.23.2010 Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division Provides Answers, Raises New Questions
Jun.21.2010 Supreme Court Determines No Presumption for Injunctive Relief in Environmental Cases
Jun.19.2010 Supreme Court Rules that Government Search of Employee's Text Messages Was Reasonable
Jun.18.2010 New Pro-Competitive Restrictions On DoD Prototype Line Items and Options
Jun.17.2010 New Process Steel – The Supreme Court Sends The NLRB Back To The Drawing Board
Jun.16.2010 CAS Price Adjustments Limited To "Affected" Contracts
Jun.14.2010 Commerce Proposes Updates To Reauthorized Defense Production Act
Jun.10.2010 Another GSA Schedule Antikickback/FCA Settlement
Jun.08.2010 Another Attempt To Catch GSA Schedule Vendors In Violation of TAA Requirements
Jun.07.2010 FINRA Proposes Registration of Operations Personnel
Jun.02.2010 Is your organisation fit for the World Cup?
Jun.02.2010 No PRB Cost Adjustment For Segment Closings
May.24.2010 New Labor-Rights Poster Requirement for Federal Contractors
May.21.2010 GAO Sides With COFC In Continued Battle Over Hubzone Set-Aside Priority
May.19.2010 DOD Implements Restrictions On Employee/Contractor Agreements Requiring Arbitration
May.18.2010 When Size Matters, SBA Has Final Say
May.17.2010 Resellers Policing Each Other On TAA Compliance
May.13.2010 Government Considers On-Line Public Access To Contracts And Task/Delivery Orders
May.12.2010 What Employers, Employees and Health Plans Need to Know Right Now About Health Care Reform
May.11.2010 U.S. Courts Order Discovery Despite Foreign Privacy Laws
May.11.2010 Third Circuit Affirms Debtor's Right To Sell Assets Under Plan Without Providing Secured Creditors The Right To Credit Bid
May.09.2010 April’s legislative changes to bloom or wither after the May election?
May.06.2010 "Rebalancing" The Federal Workforce
May.06.2010 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2010
May.05.2010 European Commission publishes draft rules applicable to horizontal co-operation agreements
May.03.2010 Privilege does not extend to in-house or foreign lawyers in EU antitrust cases says Advocate General of European Court of Justice
May.03.2010 No Tolerance For Not Meeting Storage Requirements
May.03.2010 Second Circuit Wants Full Court Review of Reverse Exclusionary Settlement Payments
May.03.2010 Servicing Standard Notwithstanding, Future Exposure May Exist
May.03.2010 New Amendments to Corporate Sentencing Guidelines: Important Changes in Requirements for Effective Compliance and Ethics Programs
May.03.2010 U.S. Supreme Court Issues Stolt-Nielsen Decision on Class Arbitration
May.01.2010 UK Health and Safety e-lert - Crowell & Moring
Apr.30.2010 UK Competition Authority in Retreat on Dairy Products "Hub and Spoke" Information Exchange Case -- Partially abandons case and hands back GB£ 50 million in agreed penalties
Apr.29.2010 What Should Large Employers Do Now? Implications of Dukes v. Wal-Mart
Apr.28.2010 DoD Issues Proposed Rules Governing Organizational Conflicts of Interest
Apr.27.2010 Court Gives Teeth To Service Disabled Veteran Status
Apr.27.2010 DOJ Appoints New Prosecutors and FBI Agents to Fight IP Crime
Apr.26.2010 European Commission Adopts New Competition Rules For Distribution Of Goods And Services
Apr.23.2010 DOJ Allows Hiring of Foreign Official under the FCPA
Apr.22.2010 Costs Of Influencing Collective Bargaining Decisions Proposed For Disallowance
Apr.21.2010 Fourth Circuit Enforces Employee's Pre-Filing Release of Qui Tam Action under the False Claims Act, Dismisses Suit
Apr.21.2010 CPSC Publishes Notice of Interpretive Rule for "Children’s Product"; House Committee Expected to Consider CPSIA Amendment
Apr.20.2010 New Push Toward Project Labor Agreements For Federal Construction Work
Apr.20.2010 Supreme Court Review of Copyright Act's "First Sale" Rule Could Have Important Consequences for Trade in Goods Subject to Intellectual Property Rights Protections
Apr.20.2010 FTC, DOJ Issue Revised Merger Guidelines
Apr.16.2010 UK upgrades its tools in fight against corruption with Bribery Act 2010
Apr.16.2010 Senator Lautenberg Introduces Bill To Overhaul The Toxic Substances Control Act Of 1976 (TSCA)
Apr.15.2010 Strict Application Of Micro-Purchase Exception Sinks Award
Apr.14.2010 Administration seeks comments to get ready for health reform expense ratio and related regulations
Apr.12.2010 DCAA Issues Guidance On Revised Travel Cost Rule
Apr.09.2010 Detailed Summary of Health Reform Legislation
Apr.09.2010 Triclosan and Increased Scrutiny of Chemicals
Apr.07.2010 CMS Issues Final Rule on Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs
Apr.07.2010 Cybersecurity Gets Hot On The Hill
Apr.05.2010 D.C. Circuit Overturns Decision To Release Manufacturing Data Under FOIA
Apr.02.2010 Privacy & Data Protection
Apr.02.2010 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Apr.02.2010 Contracts & E-Commerce
Apr.02.2010 Electronic Communications & IT
Apr.01.2010 OCIs Must Be Considered During M&A Activity
Apr.01.2010 Becker Means Change At The Labor Board
Mar.31.2010 Latest False Claims Act Developments Further Erode Safeguards Against Parasitic Whistleblower Suits
Mar.30.2010 Reporting and Repayment of Medicare and Medicaid Overpayments Must Be Made by May 22, 2010 Under Section 6402(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Mar.30.2010 Recovery Act Buy American Provision: Good News For Canadian Suppliers
Mar.29.2010 New DDTC Management Team Follows Through With Promise to Review and Eliminate Some Unnecessary ITAR Provisions
Mar.29.2010 CFC Has Jurisdiction Over "Nonprocurement" Protests
Mar.26.2010 Finally—A Regulatory Pathway for Biosimilars in the United States
Mar.26.2010 Remember To Quote Approved Rates
Mar.25.2010 Ready Or Not, Here FAPIIS Comes -- Significant New Disclosure Requirements For Contractors
Mar.25.2010 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2010
Mar.24.2010 Health Reform Legislation Enacted
Mar.24.2010 MAS Advisory Panel Urges Increased Competition And Transparency
Mar.23.2010 Mandatory Suspension/Debarment Review For "Poorly Performing" Contractors
Mar.22.2010 Help Wanted: Bounty Hunters
Mar.19.2010 TSA Snared in GAO Protest Jurisdiction
Mar.19.2010 IR&D Definition Clarified
Mar.16.2010 Spoliation Sanctions: A Tale of Two Courts
Mar.15.2010 GAO Ups the Ante on Biased Ground Rules OCIs
Mar.12.2010 Don't Risk A "Jury Verdict"
Mar.11.2010 Proposed Rule For Women-Owned Small Business Set-Asides
Mar.08.2010 DOD Proposed New Cybersecurity Rules
Mar.05.2010 Hedge Funds and Antitrust Compliance: Antitrust Division Investigates Hedge Funds Shorting Euro
Mar.04.2010 DoD Implements Franken Amendment For Non-Commercial Contracts
Mar.04.2010 Daiso Agrees to $2.05 Million Civil Penalty In Connection With CPSC’s Allegations That It Imported, Distributed and Sold Toys With Illegal Lead Content
Mar.04.2010 Oregon District Court Rules that Sharing of Privileged Documents with Reinsurers waives Protections Afforded by Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine
Mar.02.2010 CMS Provides Additional Guidance Regarding The Delay Of The Reporting Requirement Under The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute
Mar.01.2010 Cost Conference With Discount
Mar.01.2010 DOJ Sends Strong Civil Enforcement Message with $12 Million Disgorgement Remedy
Mar.01.2010 Interim Final Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Regulations Issued
Feb.25.2010 Leading a nation of bullies?
Feb.24.2010 No Warranty Without Express Language
Feb.22.2010 Constitutional Challenges To Security Clearance Revocations Are Permissible
Feb.19.2010 CMS Unexpectedly Announces 9-Month Delay Of Requirement To Report Liability Payments Under The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute
Feb.19.2010 Check For Weed
Feb.19.2010 Highlights from ICPHSO 2010
Feb.18.2010 How to Squeeze Blood from a Stone: D&O Insurance and Insolvency
Feb.11.2010 Sentencing guidelines - fine times ahead for bad PR
Feb.05.2010 US and Canada Thaw Relations By Reducing Buy American Friction
Feb.04.2010 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Feb.04.2010 Electronic Communications & IT
Feb.04.2010 Contracts & E-Commerce
Feb.04.2010 Agencies May Not Rely On Flawed DCAA Audits
Feb.04.2010 European Parliament Hearing of László Andor, Commissioner-designate for Employment and Social Affairs
Feb.03.2010 Commission Approves Climate Disclosure Guidance
Feb.01.2010 Beware of Out-Of-Scope Offers
Feb.01.2010 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2010
Feb.01.2010 USPTO Announces Interim Recalculation of Patent Term Adjustment in view of Wyeth
Jan.27.2010 Crackdown On Contractors With Tax Delinquencies
Jan.25.2010 UK Employment Law & Risk Agenda: A look at the year ahead...
Jan.25.2010 Take Two -- Charging The Bribe Recipient
Jan.22.2010 ACO Approval of Contractor Business Systems, With Teeth
Jan.20.2010 Class Actions: "Class Actions in the UK … Surely Not!"
Jan.19.2010 Congress Seeks To Pass Legislation Easing Restraints on Suits Against Foreign Manufacturers
Jan.19.2010 Blanket Purchase Order Does Not Equal Task Order Contract
Jan.19.2010 FTC Announces New (Lower) HSR and Section 8 Thresholds
Jan.15.2010 Review of English Civil Litigation Costs – Could It Get Any Easier?
Jan.12.2010 Third Circuit Clarifies Robinson-Patman Act's Competing Purchaser Requirement in Bid Situations
Jan.11.2010 Commission Consultation on Best Practices
Jan.08.2010 New FTC Guidelines Require Employers To Strengthen Social Networking Policies
Jan.07.2010 Revised Lobbying Disclosure Guidance Now In Effect
Jan.07.2010 ITC Issues Customs Value First Sale Rule Report – Are Importers Missing Duty Savings Opportunities?
Jan.06.2010 Two Bites Allowed If In Different Spots On The Apple
Jan.05.2010 CMS Proposes Definition Of Meaningful Use Of EHR; ONC Publishes Interim Final Rule Regarding EHR Certification And Standards
Jan.04.2010 New York Appellate Court Upholds Noteholder's Right to Declare a Default Based Upon Fall in Ratings of Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy
Jan.04.2010 Weakened Dollar Causes Further Rise In TAA Thresholds
Jan.04.2010 New EU Data Breach Notification Requirements
Dec.30.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - December 2009
Dec.29.2009 FDA Debars Food Importer as Tougher Food Safety Legislation Looms
Dec.28.2009 Sweeping Prohibition on Arbitration of Employment Disputes in 2010 Defense Appropriations
Dec.23.2009 COBRA Subsidy Extended, New Notice Requirements Imposed
Dec.23.2009 Congress Limits Arbitration of Employment Disputes by Defense Contractors and Subcontractors
Dec.21.2009 IRS Issues Check Sheet for Tax-Exempt Organizations' Governance Practices
Dec.18.2009 Statute Of Limitations Invalidates Government Claim For The First Time
Dec.18.2009 CPSC Votes To Extend Stay Of Certification and Third Party Testing Requirements For Certain Children's Products
Dec.18.2009 Federal Court Grant of Motion for Summary Judgment to Employer Emphasizes Importance of Prompt Remedial Action in Response to Harassment Complaints
Dec.17.2009 New York State Department of Labor Issues Forms Required When Giving Notice to New Employees Concerning Compensation
Dec.16.2009 UK and US Focus Efforts on Food Safety
Dec.16.2009 Federal Trade Commission Charges Intel With Anticompetitive Conduct; Commits to Expedited Administrative Trial and Decision
Dec.14.2009 Costs of Air Travel Limited to the “Lowest Priced Airfare Available to the Contractor”
Dec.08.2009 Limits On Bid Protest Review Reinforced
Dec.08.2009 CMS Proposed Rulemaking For The Medicare Advantage And Medicare Prescription Drug Programs
Dec.07.2009 Berlin Court of Appeals facilitates private actions for antitrust violations – excludes passing on defense for cartel members
Dec.04.2009 Recent Eighth Circuit Ruling Imposes Affirmative Duty On Generic Drug Manufacturers To Propose Label Changes Or Risk 'Failure To Warn' Lawsuits: Mensing v. Wyeth, Inc., et al.
Dec.03.2009 FCA Settlement Does Not Bar Third-Party Claims
Dec.01.2009 Joaquin Almunia Appointed EC Competition Commissioner
Dec.01.2009 Privacy & Data Protection
Dec.01.2009 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Dec.01.2009 Electronic Communications & IT
Nov.30.2009 FOIA Release Is FCA 'Public Disclosure'
Nov.30.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - November 2009
Nov.24.2009 European Commission Closes Qualcomm Investigation
Nov.23.2009 Ninth Circuit Leaves Open Possibility for Claims by FCA Defendant Against Allegedly Liable Third Party
Nov.19.2009 President Creates Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
Nov.18.2009 Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries are The Top Targets for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") Enforcement
Nov.18.2009 GAO Sustains TRICARE Protest On Multiple Grounds
Nov.17.2009 New York Bankruptcy Court Expunges Mortgage After Lender is Unable to Produce Assignment
Nov.16.2009 Gard Marine: Another UK Decision Reiterates the Importance of Choice of Law
Nov.12.2009 Brazil’s Office of Foreign Trade Announces Proposed List of U.S. Goods to Face Higher Duties
Nov.11.2009 Ignorance of The Law
Nov.11.2009 Unauthorized H1N1 Product Claims Targeted by Federal Agencies
Nov.06.2009 FTC Announces Fourth Extension of Red Flags Rule Enforcement
Nov.06.2009 HIPAA Interim Final Rule, October 30, 2009
Nov.05.2009 SBA Proposes Important New Section 8(A) Regulations
Nov.05.2009 Customs Proposes Regulations to Allow Offsets of Duty Overpayments in Audits and Disclosures
Oct.30.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - October 2009
Oct.29.2009 Secondary Loan Market Reassured by Recent Ruling of New York’s Highest Court
Oct.28.2009 "Retroactive" Amendments to False Claims Act Found Unconstitutional
Oct.27.2009 New York Employers Must Comply With New Notice Requirements
Oct.20.2009 CMS Provides Guidance on Use of Medicare Advantage Enrollee Information for Communications
Oct.20.2009 Corporate Manslaughter, Its Implications On D&Os
Oct.19.2009 New Limits On Use Of "Of A Type" Commercial Services
Oct.16.2009 Employee Benefits Update
Oct.16.2009 Mitigating the Risk of Subject-Matter Waiver When Disclosing Privileged Materials to the Government
Oct.15.2009 "Excessive" Pass-Through Charges Defined And Prohibited
Oct.15.2009 Updates on the HIPAA Breach Notification Requirements
Oct.14.2009 It's All In The Name
Oct.13.2009 3 Days For Contractor ARRA Comments
Oct.09.2009 Asia-Pacific FTAs: New agreements offer cost savings, investment protections and competitive advantages
Oct.08.2009 ECJ confirms that GSK distribution arrangements must be reassessed by Commission, but overturns CFI on purpose of EU competition rules
Oct.07.2009 U.S.-China High Tech Trade: Time to Break the Ice?
Oct.06.2009 New Rotterdam Rules For Maritime Shipping
Oct.02.2009 EPA Releases Broad Chemical Reform Principles and Seeks Industry Data for Immediate Risk Management Plans
Oct.01.2009 Second Circuit Decision in Frontera v. SOCAR Holds that Foreign Sovereigns and their Agents Are Not Entitled to Due Process Protections under the U.S. Constitution
Sep.30.2009 Electronic Communications & IT
Sep.30.2009 Contracts & E-Commerce
Sep.30.2009 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Sep.30.2009 Privacy & Data Protection
Sep.29.2009 Ratings Agencies May be Held Liable for Fraud for Misleading Ratings
Sep.29.2009 Market Access: USTR Requests Information on Foreign Trade Barriers
Sep.29.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - September 2009
Sep.28.2009 Many Small Projects Do Not Equal One Big Project
Sep.24.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - September 2009
Sep.24.2009 GAO Reports Deficiencies In DCAA Audit Reports
Sep.23.2009 PRB Costs Allowable Whether Measured Under FAS 106 or IRS Criteria
Sep.22.2009 Victory For The Alternative Energy Industry
Sep.21.2009 Increased Tariffs on Chinese Imports: It's About More Than Tires
Sep.21.2009 Court gives New Twist to Enforcement of Springing Guaranty
Sep.21.2009 "It Wasn't Me!" – The Expanding Duties of Non Executive / Independent Directors
Sep.18.2009 EPA Announces Plans To Reconsider Ozone Air Quality Standards
Sep.18.2009 Abu Ghraib Service Contractors Immune From Tort Claims
Sep.17.2009 U.S. House of Representatives Passes Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, Encouraging Consistency in the Regulation of Surplus Lines Insurance and Reinsurance
Sep.16.2009 Cuba and Telecommunications: The Door Opens Wider
Sep.16.2009 IRS Guidance on Modifications to Commercial Mortgage Loans
Sep.14.2009 OCIs Down Air Force Award
Sep.10.2009 25th Anniversary Version Of FMF Guidelines -- No Celebration For It Companies
Aug.28.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - August 2009
Aug.28.2009 Get There On Time, Or The Party's Over
Aug.26.2009 UK Health and Safety e-lert - Crowell & Moring
Aug.26.2009 Dubai - "Sand Castles or Sand Traps"
Aug.25.2009 Imminent overhaul of "dual-use" export rules for companies with European operations
Aug.25.2009 Reporting And Registration Under ARRA
Aug.13.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - August 2009
Aug.10.2009 DOL Issues Proposed Rule Implementing Executive Order 13496 - Notice of NLRA Rights
Aug.05.2009 Attorney General Commits to "Smart on Crime" Approach to Economic Crimes
Aug.05.2009 Attorney General Commits to "Smart on Crime" Approach to Economic Crimes
Aug.04.2009 Past Performance CDA Appeal Revisited
Aug.03.2009 FTC Extends Enforcement Date of Red Flags Rule
Aug.03.2009 FTC Extends Enforcement Date of Red Flags Rule
Aug.03.2009 Lexington v. Wasa: The House of Lords Redefines Concurrent Reinsurance Coverage
Aug.01.2009 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 25, Issue 1 - (Summer 2009)
Jul.31.2009 Crowell & Moring Cops #1 Ranking
Jul.30.2009 FTC Again Delays Enforcement of Red Flags Rule
Jul.29.2009 DDTC's Failure to Disclose Publicly That Particular Riflescope Was "Manufactured to Military Specifications" Results in Arms Export Control Act Conviction Misfire
Jul.28.2009 FTC Sues Virginia Health System for Alleged Anticompetitive Acquisition of Imaging Center and Outpatient Surgery Center
Jul.24.2009 Minimum Wage Increases Federally And In 16 Jurisdictions
Jul.23.2009 Equality For All - OMB Instructs Agencies To Ignore GAO And Give Equal Consideration To Three SBA Programs
Jul.23.2009 Pushing the Envelope on Insider Trading
Jul.22.2009 CPSC Unanimously Approves Policy Statement On Tracking Labels Requirement for Children's Products in Section 103(a) of the CPSIA
Jul.20.2009 Obama Administration to Begin E-Verify Enforcement For Certain Federal Contractors on September 8, 2009
Jul.17.2009 Fifth Circuit Affirms FCA Liability and Damages Under A Fraud-in-the-Inducement Theory
Jul.17.2009 FCA Treble Damages Awarded For Grant Fraudulently Induced, Despite Successful Performance
Jul.16.2009 UK Health and Safety e-lert - Crowell & Moring
Jul.15.2009 Administration To Begin E-Verify Enforcement On September 8, 2009
Jul.13.2009 Decision Could Limit Work Product Protection for Cooperating Companies
Jul.10.2009 Defacto Debarment: Broad Contracting Prohibitions For Many Expatriate Corporations
Jul.08.2009 Fraud Or Indiscretion? It Depends Who You Are
Jul.08.2009 European Commission Publishes Final Report in Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry and Opens Formal Proceedings against Patent Settlements
Jul.06.2009 Elimination of Price Reduction Clause and Other Recommendations by MAS Panel
Jul.01.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July 2009
Jul.01.2009 Proposed new rules for marketing biocidal products in the EU
Jun.30.2009 Boards' CDA Jurisdiction Does Not Extend To Third-Party Beneficiaries
Jun.30.2009 Supreme Court Shifts To "But For" Test In Age Discrimination in Employment Act Claims
Jun.29.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - June 2009
Jun.29.2009 The Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Jun.29.2009 Names no longer need Nytol to sleep easy!
Jun.23.2009 Treasury Issues Compensation Standards For TARP Participants
Jun.23.2009 Ecuador Moves Closer To Its Withdrawal From World Bank Arbitration
Jun.22.2009 New York Courts Compel Third-Party Garnishee to Bring Debtor’s Out-of-State Assets to New York to Satisfy Judgment Debt
Jun.22.2009 Supreme Court Reverses the Ninth Circuit and Restores Order to Clean Water Act Permitting, Rejecting Reallocation of Permitting Authority Over Discharges of "Fill Material" from Corps of Engineers to EPA
Jun.22.2009 Section 10(b) Securities Exchange Act 1934 v Section 90A FSMA 2000 -- Who Dares Wins!
Jun.17.2009 Hospitals Contracting With HMO to Provide Medical Services to Federal Employees Held to be "Subcontractors" Even Where Subcontract Fails To Include EEO And Affirmative Action Provisions
Jun.16.2009 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Jun.16.2009 Contracts & E-Commerce
Jun.16.2009 Electronic Communications & IT
Jun.12.2009 U.S. Not A "Party" To Whistleblower Cases When It Has Not Intervened, Supreme Court Says
Jun.12.2009 European Commission imposes Euro 20 million fine for early implementation of a merger ('Gun-jumping')
Jun.11.2009 A-12 Default Affirmed
Jun.11.2009 Protecting Your Trademark on Facebook
Jun.10.2009 Revisions to Lobbying Disclosure Act Guidance
Jun.09.2009 Much Ado About Nothing? Arbitration Clauses in Insurance and Reinsurance Contracts: Are They Still Effective?
Jun.08.2009 E-Verify Enforcement Suspended Until September 2009
Jun.05.2009 Congress Moving Quickly On Food Safety Legislation
Jun.04.2009 Inexact IDIQ Exercise = Constructive Change
Jun.02.2009 GAO Bites Agency On Corrective Action Discussions
Jun.01.2009 The Indian D&O Monsoon: The Impact of Recent Indian Regulation on Companies, their Directors & Officers, and Insurers
May.29.2009 Belgian Competition Council shows its teeth and levies a 66,3 million Euro fine
May.28.2009 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Contracting
May.28.2009 New False Claims Act Amendments Significantly Impact Health Care Entities And Their "Obligations" Regarding Overpayments
May.27.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - May 2009
May.27.2009 Secured Lenders Beware – Overreaching and Predatory Lending Tactics Can Cause Your Claim To Be Equitably Subordinated In Bankruptcy
May.26.2009 Congress Clamps Down On OCIs & Competition For DoD Major Systems
May.22.2009 Review of New Stimulus Lobbying Restrictions Ends This Week
May.22.2009 OIG Issues New Advisory Opinion Identifying Acceptable and Risky On-Call Physician Payment Arrangements
May.22.2009 Genetic Discrimination Act Restriction Becomes Effective
May.21.2009 Unfortunate Change To Settlement Fees And Costs Allowability Law
May.19.2009 Congress Amends False Claims Act
May.15.2009 No Stay of Enforcement of Tracking Labels Provision Issued
May.14.2009 European Commission imposes record € 1.06 billion antitrust fine on Intel
May.14.2009 Fee-Splitting Provisions In Arbitration Agreements Subject To Scrutiny
May.11.2009 New Law Grants Venezuelan Government Power to Take Strategic Control Over Oil Industry Services
May.06.2009 Federal Circuit Reaffirms Deferential OCI Standard
May.04.2009 No Small Business Set-Asides For FSS Purchases
May.04.2009 FTC Extends Enforcement Date of Red Flags Rule to August 1
May.04.2009 U.S. Supreme Court Issues Significant Reversal in Key CERCLA Case, Narrowing Scope of "Arranger" Liability and Upholding Apportionment Principles
Apr.30.2009 EU Developments Place Nanotechnology In The Limelight And Increase The Likelihood Of Regulatory Measures
Apr.29.2009 CPSC Changes Test Method, Standard Operating Procedure for Determining Lead in Paint and Other Similar Surface Coating To Permit Compositing
Apr.28.2009 EPA Amends Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Rules for 2008 Chemical Data
Apr.27.2009 Electronic Communications & IT
Apr.27.2009 Contracts & E-Commerce
Apr.27.2009 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Apr.27.2009 Privacy & Data Protection
Apr.27.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - April 2009
Apr.22.2009 Public-Private Partnerships On The Rise
Apr.21.2009 Changes to EU laws affecting electrical and electronic appliances: UK government publishes consultation on RoHS & WEEE revisions
Apr.17.2009 EPA Proposes Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
Apr.17.2009 Crystal-Ball Jurisprudence Critiqued
Apr.16.2009 Beware of Noncompliance With Price Reduction Clause Requirements
Apr.13.2009 Fourth Circuit Rules In Custer Battles
Apr.09.2009 European Trade Union Confederation proposes list of 306 hazardous chemical substances for regulation under REACH
Apr.09.2009 Getting in Compliance with the FTC Red Flags Rule as May 1st Enforcement Date Approaches
Apr.06.2009 Full Speed Ahead for San Francisco's Health Care Security Ordinance
Apr.04.2009 Preventing Corruption: The Implications of the FCPA on D&Os
Apr.03.2009 Recovery Act CRIB Sheet For Government Contractors, Part II, The Interim FAR
Apr.02.2009 April showers down new employment regime…
Apr.02.2009 Reaux Decision Provides Wake Up Call for Employers Regarding FMLA Policies
Apr.01.2009 The Generic Biologics Debate Moves to the Senate
Mar.31.2009 House Hammers Hubzone Program
Mar.30.2009 California Delivers More Flexibility With Alternative Workweek Schedules
Mar.26.2009 Agency Acceptably Disqualifies Offeror For Refusal To Wall Off Employee
Mar.25.2009 Second domestic sales threshold for German merger control in force today
Mar.24.2009 DCAA "Independence"
Mar.24.2009 The Generic Biologics Debate Heats Up With Introduction of Rival House Bill
Mar.24.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - March 2009
Mar.19.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2009
Mar.19.2009 Recourse For Negative Past Performance Evaluation
Mar.18.2009 Congress Tightens Toxics Release Inventory Reporting for 2008 Chemical Data
Mar.18.2009 Analytical Methods, Inc. Fined $500,000 For Failing to Register and Obtain DDTC Authorization For Exporting Its Analysis
Mar.17.2009 Tenth Circuit Enforces Release of Qui Tam Claim under the False Claims Act
Mar.17.2009 USTR Invites Public Comments on 2008 Import Statistics and Review of Country Practice Petitions under the Generalized System of Preferences Program
Mar.16.2009 E-Mails Regarding Competitor's Responsibility Not Releasable Under FOIA
Mar.13.2009 Massachusetts Finalizes Regulations and Code of Conduct for Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Relationships with Health Care Practitioners
Mar.12.2009 House Introduces Legislation On Generic Biologics Approval Process
Mar.11.2009 EPA Releases Proposed Rule for Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Mar.11.2009 Card Check Legislation Introduced In Congress
Mar.11.2009 Omnibus Spending Bill: Important Impact on U.S. Trade Policy
Mar.09.2009 FTC, Whole Foods Reach Agreement on Wild Oats Acquisition
Mar.06.2009 Crowell & Moring Attorneys Attend International Consumer Products Symposium
Mar.06.2009 Agency's Corrective Action Based Upon GAO Recommendation Reasonable
Mar.06.2009 In Wake of Wyeth Pharma Decision, Congressional Democrats Introduce Bills to Nullify Supreme Court's Riegel Medical Device Preemption Ruling
Mar.05.2009 European Working Party Offers Guidance On Discovery For Cross-Border Civil Litigation
Mar.05.2009 European Working Party Offers Guidance On Discovery For Cross-Border Civil Litigation
Mar.04.2009 President Focuses On "Cleaning Up" Federal Contracting
Mar.04.2009 CMS Re-Issues Draft 2010 Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug Plan and Health Plan Call Letter
Mar.04.2009 New FTC Settlement with Music Industry Trade Association Provides Important Guidance For Associations That Conduct Industry-Wide Meetings
Mar.04.2009 Wyeth v. Levine: U.S. Supreme Court Rules FDA Approval of Label Does Not Provide Pharmaceutical Manufacturer with Complete Preemption Defense to State Failure-to-Warn Claims
Mar.04.2009 The Obama Administration Stakes Out Positions on Generic Biologics, Hatch-Waxman Settlements and Evergreening in Its First Budget
Mar.04.2009 Senate Responds to Peanut Recalls with Bipartisan Food Safety Reforms
Mar.03.2009 Fraudulent Claim Gets The Triple Whammy
Mar.03.2009 Federal Court Allows Investor’s Law Suit To Proceed Against Hedge Fund For Misrepresentations Concerning Redemption Rights
Mar.01.2009 Electronic Communications & IT
Mar.01.2009 Contracts & E-Commerce
Mar.01.2009 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Mar.01.2009 Privacy & Data Protection
Feb.27.2009 Federal Circuit Affirms Extension of The 30 Month Hatch-Waxman Stay Preventing FDA Approval of Generic Version of Evista
Feb.26.2009 Stimulus Act Crib Sheet for Government Contractors
Feb.25.2009 Buy American Provisions of Stimulus Act
Feb.24.2009 B&P Costs Plus Injunctive Relief Permitted
Feb.23.2009 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - February 2009
Feb.20.2009 Ninth Circuit Withdraws Sullivan v. Oracle Decision Applying California Labor Laws To Non-California Residents
Feb.18.2009 Changes in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Feb.18.2009 Germany introduces second domestic turnover threshold for merger control
Feb.18.2009 Economic Stimulus Act Provides COBRA Subsidies And New COBRA Election And Disclosure Requirements; DOL Provides Guidance On Defined Benefit Funding Disclosures
Feb.17.2009 Proposed Hedge Fund Legislation
Feb.17.2009 Aiding and Abetting SEC Violations Limited by the First Circuit
Feb.13.2009 Complying with the CPSIA Phthalates Requirements: CPSC Seeks Public Input on Draft Guidance Document
Feb.09.2009 Employee Benefits Update
Feb.09.2009 UPDATE: Hedge Fund Transparency Act of 2009
Feb.08.2009 Supreme Court Weighs in on Plan Documents Rule and Effect of Non-QDRO Divorce Decree on Retirement Benefits
Feb.08.2009 Children's Health Insurance Law Amends ERISA To Impose New Special Enrollment Periods And Notice Requirements
Feb.06.2009 EU publishes eco-design measure on power consumption of set-top boxes
Feb.03.2009 Obama Moves Out On The Union Front
Feb.02.2009 Hedge Fund Transparency Act of 2009
Feb.02.2009 Obama Administration Issues Pro-Union Executive Orders
Jan.29.2009 Good News For California Employers - PAGA Does Not Provide A Second Bite At The Apple
Jan.29.2009 Ledbetter Legislation Enacted – Now What?
Jan.28.2009 Modification of Iran Reexport Licensing Requirements Hits Global Companies
Jan.26.2009 Recent developments in EU chemicals policy: ozone-depleting substances, packaging and labeling of chemicals, and REACH
Jan.23.2009 Clearing The Decks--FAR Council Finally Issues COTS Waivers Mandated By Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996
Jan.22.2009 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - January 2009
Jan.21.2009 Obama Infrastructure Program Certain To Generate Bid Protest and Other Legal Woes
Jan.16.2009 Proposed FTC Final Interim Rules Regarding Adjudicatory Proceedings
Jan.16.2009 More Confusion On What Costs Are Allocable To Government Contracts
Jan.14.2009 Must DOJ Intervene In Qui Tam Cases Within 60 Days After The Case Is Filed?
Jan.13.2009 GAO Sends Agency Back To The Drawing Board -- Again
Jan.12.2009 Satyam's "Vindaloo"
Jan.07.2009 Fasten Your Seatbelts -- Bumpy Road Ahead
Jan.06.2009 California's Retroactive Phthalates Ban Now Effective
Jan.05.2009 New Law Provides Pension Funding Relief And Other Measures In Response To Economic Crisis
Jan.05.2009 Iraq Delays Enforcement Of Certain Laws
Jan.05.2009 BIS Invites Comments on Effects of U.S. Export Controls on Foreign Business
Jan.02.2009 Tech Bundling Justified For Emergency Situations
Dec.30.2008 FTC Files Antitrust Suit Against Ovation: The Government Seeks Divestiture and Disgorgement of Profits
Dec.23.2008 Arguments Based on KSR Waived for Failing to Raise Issue at District Court Prior to Judgment
Dec.18.2008 Secretary Leavitt Announces New Principles, Tools to Protect Privacy, Encourage More Effective Use of Patient Information to Improve Care
Dec.18.2008 Three WARNings for Employers Facing Layoffs Or Bankruptcy in 2009
Dec.16.2008 The Status Of Forces: Largely Uncertain
Dec.15.2008 Privacy & Data Protection
Dec.15.2008 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Dec.15.2008 Contracts & E-Commerce
Dec.15.2008 Electronic Communications & IT
Dec.15.2008 German competition authority imposes high fine for 'gun-jumping'
Dec.12.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - December 2008
Dec.11.2008 Employee Benefits Year-End Round-Up
Dec.10.2008 Don’t Wait for the Federal Rescue Program or Bailout---Auto Suppliers and Servicers Should Take Steps Now to Shore Up Credit Risks and Bankruptcy Exposure
Dec.10.2008 Expansions of Coverage Requirements for Group Health Plans Under Recently Enacted Laws
Dec.10.2008 Ninth Circuit Holds that San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance is Not Preempted by ERISA
Dec.05.2008 EU Antitrust: European Commission issues its guidance paper on the application of Art. 82 EC Treaty to exclusionary abuses
Dec.05.2008 California Supreme Court Grants Review of Antitrust Damages "Pass-on" Defense Case
Dec.04.2008 Massachusetts Sets the New Standard, But Delays Implementation
Dec.04.2008 Revised FMLA Regulations Clarify Employer Obligations
Dec.04.2008 NIST HIPAA Security Rule Guidance
Dec.01.2008 EPA to Allow Certain Hazardous Pharmaceuticals to be Disposed of as Universal Waste
Nov.26.2008 EU Antitrust: Raids on Pharma Companies and E.ON Divestments
Nov.24.2008 Successful Protest Leads To Award
Nov.24.2008 One-way Test For Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Does Not Require Full Graham Analysis
Nov.24.2008 Managing Your Investment Losses in a Tax Efficient Way
Nov.20.2008 Mandatory Disclosure Is The New Reality
Nov.19.2008 CPSC General Counsel States that Phthalates Bans Do Not Apply Retroactively
Nov.14.2008 FTC Grants Reprieve: Health Care Companies Prepare
Nov.14.2008 FTC Grants Reprieve: Health Care Companies Prepare
Nov.14.2008 Customs and CPSC Offer Benefits to Importers that Join New Import Safety Compliance Program
Nov.14.2008 E-Verify -- Immigration Enforcement Comes to Federal Contracting
Nov.13.2008 Mark to Market Accounting: Is it time to bend the rules?
Nov.12.2008 Complying with the CPSIA Lead Limits: Guidance from the CPSC Staff
Nov.12.2008 The District of Columbia's New Paid Sick Leave Law Goes Into Effect This Week
Nov.12.2008 CPSC Streamlined Rule on Certification
Nov.12.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - November 2008
Nov.11.2008 Court Finds that ICC is Tribunal for Purposes of Section 1782 Discovery Assistance
Nov.11.2008 Single Species Does Not Provide Written Description Support For Genus
Nov.11.2008 Recent California Appeals Court Ruling May Lead To Direct Liability For Pioneer Manufacturers In Suits Involving Generic Drugs: Conte v. Wyeth, Inc., et al.
Nov.07.2008 Outplacement Reminder – The employer should take the initiative
Nov.07.2008 "Vulnerability" of A Patent Insufficient To Contest A Preliminary Injunction
Nov.07.2008 To Show Nonobviousness, Commercial Success Must Be "Direct Result" Of Patented Subject Matter
Nov.06.2008 DOD's Affirmative Action Program Unconstitutional
Nov.06.2008 Is "Card Check" In Your Future?
Nov.05.2008 Supreme Court Asked To Consider Congressional Staff Report on Eve of Oral Argument in Wyeth v. Levine
Nov.04.2008 New Energy Management Schedule Contract
Nov.04.2008 Deadline for Costa Rica to Join CAFTA-DR Extended
Nov.04.2008 Privacy & Data Protection
Nov.04.2008 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Nov.04.2008 Contracts & E-Commerce
Nov.04.2008 Electronic Communications & IT
Nov.03.2008 CFC Gives CICA Its Bite
Nov.01.2008 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - November 2008
Oct.31.2008 Justice Department Requires Verizon to Divest Assets to Acquire Alltel
Oct.31.2008 Justice Department Approves Delta-Northwest Merger
Oct.30.2008 Newly Published SEC Enforcement Manual Addresses E-Discovery
Oct.30.2008 Who Will Bailout the Bailoutters?: An Overview of the Unique Legal Risks Facing Treasury's New Asset Managers and their Subcontractors
Oct.29.2008 Contingency Contractor Beware
Oct.29.2008 Private Right of Action under the FCPA? Risks increase as litigants increasingly use foreign bribery allegations as predicate acts in U.S. civil tort cases.
Oct.28.2008 After the California Supreme Court Grants Review Of Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court, the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement Issues Memo Setting Forth Meal Break Enforcement Policy
Oct.28.2008 Lacking Disclosure Of An Algorithm For Performing The Recited Computer Function, Means-Plus-Function Claim Is Indefinite
Oct.27.2008 Deadline Fast Approaching For Businesses Exporting Chemicals (And Certain Products Containing Chemicals) Into EU
Oct.23.2008 European Commission revises Remedies Notice and amends Merger Implementing Regulation
Oct.22.2008 USTR Commences Annual GSP Review of Competitive Need Limits
Oct.22.2008 Seventh Amendment Requires New Trial Where Court Reduces Damages Based On Alleged Lack of Supporting Evidence
Oct.22.2008 Patent Challenger Entitled to Remand on Anticipation Despite Jury Verdict of Nonobviousness
Oct.21.2008 "Rule of Two" For Small Business Set-Asides Extended to Award of Task and Delivery Orders
Oct.20.2008 No Modification to a Challenger's Burden of Persuasion Upon Showing of Allegedly Anticipatory Prior Art
Oct.20.2008 Judge Paul Grimm Weighs In on Parties’ Duties to Cooperate in Discovery
Oct.17.2008 Government Procurement Is Going Green
Oct.17.2008 Directors and Officers – Are you covered for Fraud?
Oct.16.2008 Court Issues Final Consent Judgment On United-Sierra Acquisition
Oct.15.2008 Objective Indicia Of Nonobviousness Do Not Necessarily Overcome A Strong Showing Of Obviousness
Oct.15.2008 APHIS Publishes Notice on the Implementation and Enforcement of New Lacey Act Requirements on Imports of Plant and Plant Products
Oct.15.2008 Protestor Bags Redo and B&P Costs, Too
Oct.13.2008 Hedge Fund Deferred Compensation Targeted in Bailout Bill
Oct.13.2008 CAS Pension Requirements In The Market Meltdown
Oct.10.2008 At Least One Said Index" Is Identical To "Said At Least One Index
Oct.10.2008 Federal Circuit Clarifies Joint Ownership Rules with a 'Resounding Yes'
Oct.08.2008 Fundamental Shift in GSA Schedule Contract Pricing?
Oct.08.2008 Patent Owner's Self-Contradictory Expert Testimony Leads To JMOL Of No Infringement
Oct.07.2008 Patentee Bears the Burden of Establishing Non-Enablement of Allegedly Anticipatory Prior Art Reference
Oct.07.2008 Notice 2008-91: The Internal Revenue Service Moves to Facilitate Liquidity
Oct.07.2008 Applicant's Prosecution Statements May Render Prior Art Highly Material For Inequitable Conduct Analysis
Oct.07.2008 SBA Issues Final Rule On WOSB Contracting Program But Has Yet To Identify Eligible Industries
Oct.07.2008 Non-Contracted Ambulance Services Can Be "Emergency Services" Subject to State Medicaid Rate Cap Payment by Medicaid MCOs
Oct.06.2008 Tax Notice Drives Wachovia Takeover Turmoil
Oct.02.2008 Alternative Procurement Yields Protestor Bid Preparation Costs
Oct.01.2008 Managing Hand Carry Export/Import Pitfalls
Sep.26.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - September 2008
Sep.25.2008 Competitive Range Of One Gets Close Scrutiny
Sep.24.2008 The Patent Exhaustion Doctrine Is A Defense, Not A Cause Of Action Providing Jurisdiction
Sep.24.2008 ADA Amendments Act Rejects Supreme Court Decisions Limiting Scope of ADA
Sep.24.2008 District Court's Pre-KSR Obviousness Analysis Flawed for Applying the "Unduly Rigid" Teaching, Suggestion, and Motivation Test
Sep.24.2008 "Improper Revival" Not A Cognizable Defense In An Action Involving The Validity Or Infringement Of A Patent
Sep.23.2008 Notice of Infringement Plus Other Conduct Confers Personal Jurisdiction Without Offending "Fair Play and Substantial Justice"
Sep.23.2008 S.I.N. List Proposal For The Replacement of 267 Chemicals in The EU
Sep.22.2008 OCI Exclusion Without Notice Denies Due Process
Sep.18.2008 OFAC Interim Enforcement Guidelines Reaffirm Need for Effective Compliance Program
Sep.17.2008 Notwithstanding Infringer's Timely Efforts To Cease Infringing Activity, Damages Accrue After Actual Notice of Infringement
Sep.17.2008 To Satisfy the Written Description Requirement for a Genus, Sufficient Species Must Be Shown
Sep.16.2008 ECJ Allows Dominant Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Refusal To Supply In Order To Defend Legitimate Commercial Interests
Sep.15.2008 Compared To Structural Claim Language, Functional Language More Susceptible To Inherent Anticipation
Sep.12.2008 Mere Possibility of Delay by First ANDA Filer Does Not Support Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
Sep.11.2008 Mere Demonstration At A Trade Show Does Not Constitute Infringing Use
Sep.10.2008 Highlights from the CPSC's September 4, 2008 Consumer Product Safety Reform Legislation Public Meeting
Sep.10.2008 FCPA Enforcement Update – DOJ Arrests Four Individuals for Bribery Activities in Vietnam
Sep.10.2008 FCPA Enforcement Update – DOJ Arrests Four Individuals for Bribery Activities in Vietnam
Sep.09.2008 Contracts & E-Commerce
Sep.09.2008 Electronic Communications & IT
Sep.09.2008 Congress Passes New Federal Rule of Evidence to Address Privilege Issues
Sep.09.2008 Plain Language of "At Least One" Does Not Require Two, Despite Disclosures in the Specification to the Contrary
Sep.09.2008 Courts May Not Rule on Invalidity of Unasserted Claims
Sep.09.2008 Privacy & Data Protection
Sep.09.2008 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Sep.08.2008 European Sanctions on Iran – Compliance for European Operations
Sep.08.2008 High Noon: DOJ and FTC Shootout Over Report on Single Firm Conduct
Sep.04.2008 "Paralyzing Uncertainty" Does Not Create Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
Sep.03.2008 HHS OIG Identifies Potential Violation of Anti-Kickback Laws In Proposed "Block Lease" Arrangements Between Physician Groups
Sep.02.2008 BIS to Expand Entity List
Aug.29.2008 Experimental Use Exception to the On-Sale Bar of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) Is Unavailable After An Invention Has Been Reduced To Practice
Aug.29.2008 Changes To Product, Coupled With Opinions of Counsel, Compel Reconsideration of Willfulness Finding
Aug.29.2008 Inter Partes Reexamination Not Limited To First Application In Chain Of Applications
Aug.29.2008 CFC Has "Pre-Procurement" Protest Jurisdiction
Aug.29.2008 DOJ Issues Revised Guidelines on Corporate "Cooperation" Hours After Second Circuit Finds Prior DOJ Policies Unconstitutional
Aug.27.2008 District Courts Warned to Provide Greater Scrutiny Over Inequitable Conduct Defenses
Aug.26.2008 Massachusetts Law Imposes Limitations and Monitoring Requirements on Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Company Interactions with Health Care Practitioners and Facilities
Aug.25.2008 Patent Application Process Must Be Compliant with U.S. Export Controls
Aug.25.2008 Patent Application Process Must Be Compliant with U.S. Export Controls
Aug.22.2008 New FDA Label Change Rule
Aug.21.2008 Parent's No-Debarment Agreement Doesn't Stop CO Finding Sub Lacks Integrity
Aug.18.2008 Customs Proposes Major Change to Origin Rules
Aug.18.2008 CPSC Announces September 4th Public Meeting to Discuss Reform Legislation
Aug.14.2008 In Rare Copyright Decision, Federal Circuit Affirms Enforceability of Open Source License Conditions
Aug.14.2008 President Bush Signs into Law the "Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008"
Aug.13.2008 Public Comment Solicited on Proposed Modifications to Endangered Species Act Consultation Process
Aug.11.2008 California Supreme Court Leaves Intact Broad Prohibitions On Enforceability Of Non-compete Agreements
Aug.11.2008 Lenders and Servicers Beware: Court Imposes Duty Upon Lenders and Servicers To Accurately Disclose Status With Respect To Loan
Aug.08.2008 Customs Proposes To Substantially Transform The Substantial Transformation Test
Aug.08.2008 Public statements on non-recruitment of candidate employees of a foreign origin constitute direct discrimination
Aug.08.2008 EPA Proposes Significant Expansion of Audit Policy to Encourage Environmental Clean Up at Newly Acquired Facilities
Aug.08.2008 CPSC Reform Legislation Before President for Signing into Law
Aug.07.2008 Upcoming 14 August deadline for hazardous chemicals in the EU
Aug.06.2008 Reversed Inequitable Conduct Case Reassigned Where District Judge Evinced Strong Convictions Against Patentee
Aug.05.2008 Oil Speculation Tax Proposal
Aug.04.2008 McCormick Agrees to Divest Seasoned-Salt Business
Aug.01.2008 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - August 2008
Jul.31.2008 FTC Wins Reversal in Whole Foods
Jul.30.2008 Highlights Of Housing Bailout Bill
Jul.28.2008 Claims Limited During Prosecution Cannot Be Construed to Broaden Their Scope, Despite the Presence of the Transitional Phrase "Comprising"
Jul.24.2008 The FTC Examines Green Claims for Textiles and Buildings
Jul.23.2008 Obviousness Based on Structural Similarity Generally Requires "Reasoned Identification" of a Lead Compound
Jul.23.2008 Consent Judgment Not Reviewable Without Effect and Context of Claim Construction Ruling
Jul.23.2008 More Disclosure Proposed -- And Not By The Government
Jul.23.2008 Anxiously-Awaited Brinker Decision Holds That Employers Need Not Police Whether Employees Take Meal Periods
Jul.21.2008 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 24, Issue 1 - (Summer 2008)
Jul.18.2008 The Six-Year Clock for the Presumption of Laches Keeps Ticking Past the Issuance of a Reexamination Certificate
Jul.16.2008 Joint Infringement of a Method Claim Requires "Direct Control" of Each Step
Jul.16.2008 Lobbying Disclosure Act Guidance Reverses Course!
Jul.16.2008 DOJ Offers Last-Minute Criticism of The False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007
Jul.15.2008 Post Hoc Explanation Inadequate To Save Unreasonable Price Evaluation
Jul.15.2008 Federal Circuit Again Refuses Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents Defense To Infringement Claim
Jul.15.2008 PhRMA Updates Marketing Code for Interacting with Healthcare Professionals; California Law Mandates Updates to Comprehensive Compliance Programs of Covered Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies
Jul.11.2008 European Court Issues Landmark Judgment on Mergers in Concentrated Markets
Jul.09.2008 Privacy & Data Protection
Jul.09.2008 ISP-Liability & Media Law
Jul.09.2008 Contracts & E-Commerce
Jul.09.2008 E-Communications & IT
Jul.09.2008 Consultancy Firms Contributing to Implementation of Cartel Subject to Fines
Jul.07.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July 2008
Jul.03.2008 All Those Disclosure Requirements -- They Just Keep Coming
Jul.02.2008 CMS Issues 2009 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule: Proposed Changes Would Impact Anti-Markup Rule, Add New Stark Law Exception
Jul.01.2008 OGE Issues Final Rule On Post-Employment Conflict Of Interest Restrictions
Jun.30.2008 Supreme Court Limits Deference for ERISA Claims Denials by Fiduciaries with Conflicts of Interest
Jun.30.2008 European Commission Introduces New Settlement Procedure for Cartel Cases
Jun.26.2008 Crowell & Moring Once Again Rated Leading Government Contracts Firm
Jun.24.2008 GAO Blasts Faulty Past Performance Evaluation
Jun.20.2008 Congress Has A "Heart"?
Jun.19.2008 Tanker Award Tanked
Jun.17.2008 Supreme Court Decision Ends Practice of Applying Section 1146(a)'s Exemption for Stamp and Transfer Taxes to Pre-Confirmation Asset Sales
Jun.17.2008 Absence of Findings Requires Reversal of "Exceptional Case" Determination
Jun.17.2008 New Protest Jurisdiction at GAO
Jun.16.2008 New Executive Order and Proposed Rule Require Government Contractors to Use "E-Verify" System
Jun.11.2008 Government Contractors Must Use E-Verify
Jun.11.2008 Company in Financial Trouble? Officers Beware
Jun.10.2008 Preferred Or Illustrated Embodiments Not Covered Where Patentee Does Not Alter A Term’s Ordinary Meaning
Jun.10.2008 Subcontractor Must Intend That Government Pay False Claim Submitted To Prime, Supreme Court Rules
Jun.05.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - June 2008
Jun.04.2008 Strict Showing of Necessity And Diligence to Oppose Summary Judgment is Not Required Without Adequate Initial Opportunity For Discovery
Jun.04.2008 Lack Of Standing Is Fatal To Lost Profits Claim
Jun.03.2008 Supremes Allow Paralegal Fees Recovery At Market Rates
May.30.2008 Meaningful Preparation to Conduct Potentially Infringing Activity Required for Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
May.28.2008 The Fifth Circuit Affirms the FTC’s Ruling and Order Against North Texas Specialty Physicians
May.28.2008 The Fifth Circuit Affirms the FTC’s Ruling and Order Against North Texas Specialty Physicians
May.28.2008 Task Order Protest as Breach at The ASBCA
May.27.2008 FTC's Bureau of Competition Issues Report and Statement Emphasizing Continued Scrutiny of Pharmaceutical Agreements
May.27.2008 New Law Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Raises New Risks For Employers
May.22.2008 Two New FTC Hospital Merger Enforcement Actions: The FTC Seeks to Block Hospital Merger in Northern Virginia and Issues Order Requiring Merged Hospital in Illinois to Create Independent Negotiating Teams
May.22.2008 Two New FTC Hospital Merger Enforcement Actions: The FTC Seeks to Block Hospital Merger in Northern Virginia and Issues Order Requiring Merged Hospital in Illinois to Create Independent Negotiating Teams
May.22.2008 House Passes Bill Authorizing Antitrust Suits Against OPEC
May.21.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2008
May.20.2008 Venezuela Takes Further Steps Against International Mining and Other Natural Resource Companies
May.20.2008 Flawed Pension Cost Decision Is Reversed - But Why?
May.16.2008 Scope of Proposed Rule on Self-Reporting is Expanded and Would Also Require Self-Reporting of FCA Violations and Contract Overpayments
May.13.2008 DFARS Excessive Pass-Through Cost Rule Modified
May.09.2008 CMS Proposes New Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Rule
May.09.2008 Agency's Preclusionary (And Erroneous) "Revolving Door" Advice Provides Pre-Award Bid Protest Standing
May.08.2008 Nine West Steps into Leegin's Shoes: FTC Modifies 2000 Consent Order
May.06.2008 No Prime Liability = No Pass-Through
May.01.2008 New Jersey and Washington D.C. Paid Leave Laws Gain Momentum
May.01.2008 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - May 2008
Apr.30.2008 "//signed//" Doesn't Cut It
Apr.25.2008 Federal Taxes, Contractor Responsibility, and Suspension and Debarment
Apr.24.2008 Antitrust/IP Interface: D.C. Circuit Reverses FTC in Rambus Case Involving Alleged Deception of Standards Development Organization
Apr.23.2008 Subcontractor's Substitution is Not Necessarily Invalid
Apr.21.2008 Beware The Cooperative Agreement
Apr.18.2008 Arbitration Clause Does Not "Run With Patent"
Apr.18.2008 "Defendant Preclusion" Res Judicata Can Result From Default Judgment
Apr.18.2008 Consideration of Competing Claim Constructions By Different Courts Required to Ensure Uniformity
Apr.16.2008 OIG “Open Letter” Delivers Welcome News to Health Care Providers
Apr.16.2008 Mandatory Disclosure And Cooperation To Be Proposed For Commercial Item And Overseas Contractors
Apr.14.2008 Bad Faith Required For Preliminary Injunction Against Patent Holder Warning Potential Infringers
Apr.11.2008 Absent Special Definition, Dictionary-Based Ordinary Meaning Controls Construction of "Computer" and "Computer System" Terms
Apr.11.2008 Presumption of Patent Validity Does Not Necessarily Extend to Entitlement to an Earlier Filing Date
Apr.09.2008 GAO To Staff New Contract Appeals Board
Apr.03.2008 Release of European Commission’s White Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of EC Antitrust Rules
Apr.03.2008 State Law, Not the Patent Act, Governs Patent Ownership
Apr.03.2008 GAO Repeats Protective Order Warning
Apr.01.2008 Judge Upholds Smithkline's Challenge To USPTO Continuation Rules
Mar.26.2008 Pending Regulatory Approval Does Not Confer Automatic Safe Harbor Exemption
Mar.11.2008 California Supreme Court Limits Liability of Individuals for Retaliation Under FEHA
Mar.10.2008 CFC Faults GSA's False Statistical Precision In Major Evaluation
Mar.05.2008 Court Of Federal Claims Examines Contracting Authority
Mar.05.2008 Supreme Court Rules that Filing of Formal Charge No Longer Necessary to Satisfy Administrative Filing Requirements of ADEA
Mar.04.2008 Subject Matter Jurisdiction Exists Even Though Four Year Period Between Threatening Letters And The Filing Of A Declaratory Judgment Action
Mar.03.2008 IRS Designates Distressed Asset Trusts as "Listed Transactions"
Mar.03.2008 Pre-Verdict Reasonable Royalties Should Not Be Used For Determining Post-Verdict Damages
Feb.29.2008 Supreme Court Expands Right of Individual Participants to Sue ERISA Fiduciaries for Damages
Feb.29.2008 Notices of Intent to Sue Compel Concerns Over Prop 65 Compliance
Feb.28.2008 Stay Tuned For Likely Changes In False Claims Law
Feb.28.2008 United's Acquisition of Sierra Proceeds with Settlement of Medicare Advantage Antitrust Allegations
Feb.28.2008 United’s Acquisition of Sierra Proceeds with Settlement of Medicare Advantage Antitrust Allegations
Feb.28.2008 United’s Acquisition of Sierra Proceeds with Settlement of Medicare Advantage Antitrust Allegations
Feb.27.2008 United’s Acquisition of Sierra Proceeds with Settlement of Medicare Advantage Antitrust Allegations
Feb.27.2008 Record Fine (EUR 899 million) Imposed on Microsoft Today
Feb.27.2008 TSA Back Under The Thumb off FAR and CICA
Feb.26.2008 Avoiding a Maternal Profiling Claim
Feb.26.2008 Determining Suitability of Invention for Customer Purpose is not Experimental Use
Feb.21.2008 Go Ahead and Offer the Senator a Cup of Coffee - Senate Gift Rules Don't Require You to Be Rude, Just Stingy
Feb.21.2008 Go Ahead and Offer the Senator a Cup of Coffee
Feb.21.2008 U.S. Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits Against Medical Device Manufacturers – Products Approved Under FDA’s PMA Process Exempt From State Tort Law Claims
Feb.20.2008 Failure to Disclose Employee Notes Constitutes Inequitable Conduct
Feb.15.2008 No Right to a Jury Trial on the Jurisdictional Issue of Standing
Feb.15.2008 Justice Department Requires Divestitures In Private Equity Funds' Acquisition Of Clear Channel
Feb.15.2008 Patents To Gene Sequences May Cover Plants And Seeds Containing The Patented Sequences
Feb.14.2008 Doctrine of Equivalents Must Be Applied on Element-By-Element Basis
Feb.14.2008 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - February 2008
Feb.13.2008 EU Antitrust Regulators Raid Intel's Germany Offices
Feb.11.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2008
Feb.11.2008 Customs 10+2 Initiative
Feb.07.2008 Crowell & Moring Establishes that an Employer May Unilaterally Exercise Management Rights Implemented after Bargaining Impasse
Feb.07.2008 Lobby Law Development: Just When You (Almost) Had The New Disclosure Rules Figured Out, Here Come The Constitutional Challenges!
Feb.06.2008 Claims Encompass Embodiments Described In The Specification Unless Precluded By Prosecution History
Feb.06.2008 Recitation of Sufficient Structure May Overcome Means –Plus-Function Presumption
Feb.05.2008 UK Employment Law Gets A Passport
Feb.05.2008 Full Claim Scope Must Be Enabled To Avoid Invalidity
Feb.05.2008 GAO Slams Protestor For Protective Order Violation
Feb.04.2008 Dependent Claims May Be Definite Although The Independent Claim Is Not
Feb.01.2008 Crowell & Moring Obtains Victory In First Tried Indirect Purchaser Pharmaceutical Antitrust Case
Feb.01.2008 Crowell & Moring Obtains Victory In First Tried Indirect Purchaser Pharmaceutical Antitrust Case
Jan.30.2008 Lost Profits Not Recoverable For Convoyed Sales Without Adequate Relationship Between Components
Jan.30.2008 Key HSR Filing Threshold Will Increase To $63.1 Million As Of Feb. 28
Jan.30.2008 Line Item Prices Still Exempt Under FOIA
Jan.30.2008 Semantic Definition Differences Not Inconsistent With Claim Construction
Jan.30.2008 European Commission Imposes € 38 Million Fine On E.ON For Breach Of A Seal During An Inspection
Jan.24.2008 IRS Releases Final Version of Form 990 (Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax)
Jan.22.2008 Update on Unavailability of U.S. Bankruptcy Relief for Some Offshore Hedge Funds
Jan.22.2008 Crossing The Threshold
Jan.17.2008 European Commission launches dawn raids against pharmaceutical companies despite having no ‘specific evidence of wrongdoing’
Jan.17.2008 An Indefinite Article "A" Or "An" Means "One Or More"
Jan.17.2008 Potential OCI Short-Circuits Sole-Source Award
Jan.16.2008 Controversy Over Sage-Grouse Threatens Multiple Use Development Across 11 Western States
Jan.15.2008 A Reason For The Addition Of Claims During Reexamination Is Not Statutorily Required
Jan.10.2008 Unpublicized Paper Displayed On An FTP Server With An Acronym File Name Is Not A Printed Publication
Jan.08.2008 Supreme Court Strictly Enforces CFC Statute Of Limitation
Jan.04.2008 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - January 2008
Jan.04.2008 EEOC Final Rule Allows Employers to Reduce or Eliminate Retiree Benefits for Medicare-Eligible Retirees
Jan.02.2008 Tis the Season to Give Gifts or Is It?
Jan.02.2008 SBA Proposes Set-Aside Rules For Women-Owned Small Businesses
Dec.27.2007 New Tax Notice Requirement for California Employers
Dec.21.2007 Happy Holidays From The Far Council -- Proposed Restrictions On Allowable Airfare
Dec.21.2007 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - December 2007
Dec.20.2007 European Commission Toughens Stance on Early Implementation of Mergers and Acquisitions (‘Gun –Jumping’)
Dec.20.2007 Entitlement to Attorneys’ Fees in Bankruptcy by Unsecured Creditors Remains Uncertain
Dec.19.2007 FCPA’s Ever-Expanding Reach Goes Private
Dec.17.2007 German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court) Provides Guidance on the Definition of the De Minimis Clause in Determining Whether a Merger Is Subject to German Merger Control
Dec.17.2007 HHS OIG OKs Incentive Arrangements for Hospital Services in MediGap Product
Dec.17.2007 Dept. of Labor Clarifies HIPAA with Compliance Safe Harbor
Dec.14.2007 SEC Settlement Highlights Risks for Corporate Executives Under the FCPA
Dec.11.2007 Interference Decision Finding Patent Specifications To Have Presented “New Evidence” Was Harmless Error
Dec.10.2007 Latest DoD "Reform" Act Is Far-Reaching
Dec.04.2007 SEC Disclosure Requirements for State Sponsors of Terrorism
Dec.04.2007 Be Certain of The Sum Certain
Dec.04.2007 DC Circuit Upholds EPA Consent Agreements With America’s Farms
Nov.26.2007 Déjà Vu: Another FAR Rule On Contractor Codes Of Business Ethics And Conduct
Nov.19.2007 Substantial Evidence Supports Infringement Finding Despite Narrower Claim Construction
Nov.16.2007 New Exemptions For Foreign Workers
Nov.16.2007 Ohio Federal Court Fires Warning Shots At Mortgage Pool Investors Who Rush To Foreclose Without Adequate Pre-Foreclosure Legal Due Diligence
Nov.16.2007 Contractor Socked For Double And Treble Damages
Nov.15.2007 E.U. Starts In-Depth Investigation Into Google/DoubleClick Deal
Nov.14.2007 Incorporation By Reference Statement Must Be Drafted With Care
Nov.14.2007 DOJ Would Mandate Contractor Compliance Programs And Self-Reporting
Nov.13.2007 A Number Expressed As A Power Of Ten Represents An Ordinary Number, Not A Range Of Numbers
Nov.13.2007 FAR Integrated With Safety Act
Nov.12.2007 Agency's Stafford Act Interpretation Rejected
Nov.05.2007 Assembly In US Does Not Unlock TAA Procurement Door For Padlocks Made From Chinese Parts
Nov.02.2007 Employee Monitoring in the Workplace: What Constitutes "Personal Data"?
Oct.30.2007 False Claims Act - Supreme Court Will Review Allison
Oct.26.2007 Waiver of Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunity Does Not Extend To Subsequent Action Following Voluntary Dismissal
Oct.26.2007 DOD Suspensions and Debarments Are Dramatically Up: Check Your Compliance Program
Oct.25.2007 New TTAB Rules Go Into Effect November 1
Oct.25.2007 Eleventh Circuit Holds Justice Kennedy's "Significant Nexus" Test To Be Governing Rule Of Rapanos
Oct.25.2007 Companies to Divest Newsprint Mill in Arizona to Preserve Competition
Oct.24.2007 Belgium Unveils New Leniency Guidelines
Oct.23.2007 Judge Tosses Antitrust Case Against Netflix
Oct.17.2007 The Fourth Circuit Derails Class Action by Sending Conspiracy Claims to Individual Arbitrations
Oct.17.2007 Court Explores New Frontier On The OCI Front
Oct.16.2007 Exclusive Enterprise License Does Not Confer Standing To Bring Patent Action In Licensee’s Own Name
Oct.15.2007 Interest Paid Is Recoverable In Damages
Oct.12.2007 Commissioned Salespersons in New York State Must, Effective October 16, 2007, Be Paid Under Written Agreements
Oct.11.2007 ADR Presentation at SuperConference
Oct.11.2007 Trouble Averted: Seventh Circuit Court Upholds Yield Maintenance Provision
Oct.02.2007 STARK II PHASE III: A Detailed Section-By-Section Analysis of the Long-Awaited “Final” Rule
Oct.01.2007 OIG Opines On Propriety of ED Call Coverage Arrangements
Sep.27.2007 Congressional Sledgehammer Drops On DHS Cyber Insecurity
Sep.24.2007 Anticipatory Prior Art Must Enable Practice Of The Invention
Sep.21.2007 A Trust Holding Rights To Causes Of Action But Not Patent Title Has No Standing
Sep.20.2007 Disclosed Species Within A Count Establishes Constructive Reduction To Practice
Sep.19.2007 Export Compliance and List Administration
Sep.19.2007 Little Dab of Fraud Will Do Ya (In)
Sep.18.2007 Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Proving Willful Infringement, and Provides for Protection of Trial Counsel Communications and Work Product From Discovery -- Great News for Accused Infringers
Sep.17.2007 Arguments Unrelated To Patentablilty Preclude Infringement
Sep.17.2007 EU Ruling Deals Blow to Microsoft
Sep.14.2007 Gotta Give A Guy A Fair Chance On The Redo
Sep.11.2007 U.S. Bankruptcy Relief Blocked For Some Offshore Hedge Funds
Sep.07.2007 Sufficiently Pleaded Willful Infringement Claim and Inappropriate Royalty Base Calculation Result In Partial Reversal
Sep.05.2007 Court Dumps CICA Stay Override
Aug.31.2007 Infringed Design Patent Requires Combination of Elements To Be Non-Trivial Advance
Aug.31.2007 Compound Interest On CAS
Aug.28.2007 Long-Awaited Stark Law Phase III Final Rule Released By CMS
Aug.24.2007 District Court's Markman Ruling Has No Preclusive Effect On PTO Reexam
Aug.22.2007 Controversial New Continuation And Examination Support Document Rules Are Effective November 1, 2007
Aug.22.2007 State Slammed For Adopting GAO Recommendation
Aug.20.2007 Congress Hammers TSA Exemption From FAR
Aug.15.2007 Safe Harbor of 271(E)(1) Broadly Applied
Aug.15.2007 Trouble Ahead: Seventh Circuit Court Reviewing Yield Maintenance Provisions
Aug.14.2007 FTC Finds Evanston Hospital Merger Unlawful, But Refuses to Order Spin-Off
Aug.07.2007 Analogous Art May Come From Any Area Describing Similar Mechanisms
Aug.03.2007 British Airways and Korean Airlines agree to pay more than $300 million each in deal with Antitrust Division
Aug.03.2007 SEC Ramps Up Hedge Fund Enforcement
Aug.03.2007 SBA Proposes To Relax Employee-Based Size Standard
Aug.03.2007 DC’s Prescription Drug Excessive Pricing Act Federally Preempted
Aug.01.2007 Civil FCA Relator Fees Are Deductible
Jul.30.2007 Strong Mitigating Factors Trump Debarment
Jul.30.2007 EU Brings Antitrust Claims Against Utilities
Jul.27.2007 DOJ Makes Good On Promise To Prosecute Individuals For FCPA Violations
Jul.27.2007 Obviousness-Type Double Patenting: Earlier Patented Genus Invalidates Later Species Claim
Jul.25.2007 EU Sends Letters Alleging Banana Conspiracy
Jul.24.2007 Trademark Application’s Identification of Goods is Within The PTO’s Discretion
Jul.24.2007 Legitimate Restrictions?
Jul.23.2007 Infringing Present Activity Needed For Declaratory Judgment
Jul.20.2007 ISP’s And Other Providers Of Communications Services Cannot Be Forced To Directly Disclose Personal Data Of Copyright Infringers To Copyright Holders, Says ECJ Advocate General
Jul.17.2007 D.C. Circuit Rejects Challenges to CAFO Air Consent Agreements
Jul.10.2007 Prosecution History Estoppel’s Foreseeability Exception Defined By Original Claim Scope
Jul.10.2007 Patentee’s Admissions Trump Secondary Indicia of Non-Obviousness
Jul.09.2007 Patent Claim Term’s Definition Redefinition Permitted Despite Absence In Specification
Jul.06.2007 CAS Exemption For Time & Material And Labor Hour Contracts
Jul.05.2007 Further Progress On What Used To Be The Berry Amendment
Jul.05.2007 2008 Physician Fee Schedule Proposes A Host of Stark Law Revisions - And It Isn’t Even Phase III…
Jul.03.2007 “Near” Not Indefinite if Adequately Defined
Jul.03.2007 CAS-covered Contract Not "Affected" By Accounting Change
Jul.03.2007 Chemical Obviousness Following KSR and Pfizer
Jul.02.2007 Omission Of Claim Feature More Significant To Claim Interpretation Than That Feature's Inclusion In Specification Embodiment
Jun.30.2007 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - June 2007
Jun.28.2007 Practical Considerations Arising From Supreme Court's Leegin Decision Overturning Per Se Treatment of Minimum Resale Price Maintenance Agreements
Jun.27.2007 New Timeliness Rule Sinks Ferry’s Protest
Jun.25.2007 Incorrect to Eliminate Portions of A Mark and Then Compare
Jun.25.2007 The Supreme Court Limits The Scope Of The Endangered Species Act In Defenders of Wildlife
Jun.21.2007 OIG Advisory Opinion 07-05: How a Fair Market Value Deal Can Place Hospital-Physician Joint Venturers at Risk of Kickback Violation
Jun.20.2007 Smoking Gun? Workplace Smoking Ban in the UK
Jun.20.2007 General Statements Regarding Known Structures are Insufficient to Support Means-Plus-Function Claims
Jun.18.2007 BIS Issues Final Rule on China Exports
Jun.18.2007 Board Finds Liability For Constructive Receipt of Pension Plan Assets at Plan Merger
Jun.14.2007 CAS Board Adjusts Coverage Threshold
Jun.14.2007 Third Circuit Upholds EEOC Rule Permitting Retiree Health Plan Coordination of Benefits with Medicare
Jun.12.2007 Ambiguous Instructions Give Disqualified Offeror A Second Chance
Jun.08.2007 IRS Mandates Audit of Deductibility of Settlements
Jun.06.2007 GAO Teaches Course in Cost Realism 101
Jun.04.2007 U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Text Made Public Providing Important Details on How Companies Can Capitalize on New Korean Market Access Opportunities
Jun.01.2007 Determination of Reasonable Royalty Should Consider Benefits to Patentee and Infringer
Jun.01.2007 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - June 2007
May.31.2007 New Customs Publication Demands Independent Satisfaction of Customs Value Requirements
May.31.2007 Hot Fraud and Abuse Issues for Medical Device Companies
May.31.2007 Specification Limitations Can Give Meaning To Claim Terms Not Having An Ordinary Meaning
May.31.2007 Public Use Must Be for Intended Purpose of Invention to Trigger § 102(b) Bar
May.30.2007 "Aspirina" Merely Descriptive For Analgesic Goods
May.30.2007 Hospital Credentialing of Medical Device Sales Representatives – Increasing Legal Issues on the Horizon
May.22.2007 Supreme Court Decision Raises Standard for Pleading Conspiracy Cases Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act
May.16.2007 Post-KSR Patent Prosecution “Survival Guide”
May.11.2007 "Yardstick" Measures Failure to Progress in A-12 Default Termination
May.11.2007 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2007
May.07.2007 Patentees’ Prior Statements in Unrelated Korean Suit Invalidate Infringed US Claims
May.01.2007 Absent Contrary Evidence, Claim Terms Appearing In Different Claims Presumptively Carry The Same Meaning
May.01.2007 US Supreme Court Makes it Easier to Find Patents Obvious
Apr.30.2007 Limitation on Mark-Up of Subcontractor Costs
Apr.30.2007 PRRB Rules In Favor of Hospital on Bad Debt Issue
Apr.27.2007 OIG Will Engage in Unannounced Site Visits to Ensure Compliance With CIAs
Apr.27.2007 Record $44 Million Settlement for FCPA Violations
Apr.25.2007 Bad Faith Conduct Pervades Contract
Apr.24.2007 Patent Case Has Implications For Contract Interpretation
Apr.24.2007 Federal Circuit Panel Once Again Splits on Claim Construction
Apr.23.2007 Properly Construed Claim May Not Cover All Embodiments
Apr.20.2007 California Supreme Court Expands Time Limit to File Meal and Rest Period Claims
Apr.19.2007 Health Plans Need Contingency Plans for National Provider Identification Compliance after May 23, 2007
Apr.18.2007 The DOJ And FTC Issue Their Second Report On The Interface Of IP And Antitrust Law
Apr.18.2007 Lawyers.com Generic for Legal Information Website
Apr.16.2007 Decision Signals Increased SBA Scrutiny of Size Status
Apr.16.2007 Non-Statutory Labor Exemption to the Federal Antitrust Laws Does Not Bar Class-Action by Employees Against Hospitals
Apr.12.2007 South Korea Fines Rubber Companies $6 Million
Apr.11.2007 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - April 2007
Apr.11.2007 EU Accuses Shipping Companies of Forming Cartel
Apr.10.2007 GAO And SBA Disagree on Effect of Noncompliance With Subcontracting Limitation
Apr.10.2007 Judge Allows Antitrust Suit Over Newspaper Deal
Apr.09.2007 Claims Dismissed in Insurer Class Action
Apr.09.2007 Certificate Of Correction That Broadens Is Invalid
Apr.06.2007 Claims Must Be Construed In View of Prosecution History
Apr.05.2007 Mediation of Construction (and other) Disputes: A Laundry List for Litigants and Advocates
Apr.04.2007 Government Auditor Cannot Qualify As An Original Source
Apr.02.2007 Terms Of Terminally Disclaimed Patents Can Be Extended
Apr.02.2007 U.S. Senate Holds Hearings on the Employee Free Choice Act
Apr.02.2007 Supreme Court Deals Set-Back To Whistleblowers
Mar.30.2007 Supreme Court Deals Set-Back to Whistleblowers
Mar.30.2007 “Tangentiality” Not Available Unless Demonstrated In Prosecution History
Mar.30.2007 Supreme Court Deals Set-Back to Whistleblowers
Mar.30.2007 Antitrust Division Speech On Standard Setting
Mar.29.2007 Obviousness Established Through Routine Testing
Mar.28.2007 Supreme Court Resolves “Original Source” Issue
Mar.27.2007 Claims Broadened Beyond Specification Are Invalid
Mar.26.2007 CFC Sets Out Contract Interpretation Standards
Mar.26.2007 Declarant’s Intentional Misrepresentation Not Remedied By Contradictory Supporting Exhibits
Mar.21.2007 CMS Extends Deadline For Publication of Final Stark II, Phase III Rule
Mar.21.2007 Grand Jury Returns Second FCPA Indictment of Former Alcatel Executives
Mar.20.2007 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2007
Mar.16.2007 Government Not Immune To E-Discovery Costs
Mar.13.2007 Reissue Cannot Correct Judgment Errors
Mar.09.2007 Senators Grill Antitrust Officials over Lax Merger Enforcement
Mar.06.2007 ASBCA Reconsiders CAS 418 Definition Of "Homogeneous Cost Pools"
Mar.05.2007 Inappropriate Dismissal Of Counterclaims Is Harmless Error Absent Prejudice In Having To Reassert Such Counterclaims In A Subsequent Action
Mar.01.2007 Bill To Repeal Mccarran-Ferguson Act Antitrust Exemption For Insurance Business Introduced
Mar.01.2007 TTAB’s Application Of “Excusable Neglect” Test Withstands Challenge
Feb.28.2007 No Equivalents Found Where Court Relied Upon Unclaimed Features And Patentee Did Not Present Particularized Testimony Regarding Equivalents
Feb.28.2007 CON Laws Pose Threat to Health Care Markets, DOJ Antitrust Division Official Tells Georgia Legislative Committee
Feb.27.2007 New York's Highest Court Bars Class Action Recovery of Treble Damages Under Donnelly Act
Feb.26.2007 State Court Patent Ownership Judgment Not Subject To Collateral Review
Feb.22.2007 Contractor Using Alleged Infringing Method Is Immune from Patent Infringement Suit
Feb.22.2007 CMS Takes a Step Back on Recently Published Guidance on the New IDTF Quality Standards
Feb.22.2007 Supreme Court Brings Law on Predatory Buying into Line with Existing Rule on Predatory Selling
Feb.21.2007 Draft EC Notice On Non-Horizontal Mergers
Feb.21.2007 Antitrust Suit Filed Against Monsanto for Monopoly in Herbicides Market
Feb.21.2007 Obviousness Is Found Where Motivation To Combine Prior Art Resides In Problem To Be Solved
Feb.20.2007 Both Judgment And Attorney Fees Are Lost For Non-Compliance With Service Rules
Feb.20.2007 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - February/March 2007
Feb.20.2007 Compulsory Licensing As An Antitrust Remedy
Feb.20.2007 U.S. DOJ Requires Divestiture by Mittal Steel to Preserve Competition in the Tin Mill Products Industry
Feb.19.2007 House Antitrust Task Force To Hold Hearing on Sirius/XM Merger
Feb.16.2007 Proposed Far Rule Would Require Many Federal Contractors And Subcontractors To Adopt Ethics Program
Feb.13.2007 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2007
Feb.12.2007 TTAB’s Res Judicata Ruling Regarding Speaker Design Functionality Withstands Challenge
Feb.07.2007 Large Employers Beware: Ninth Circuit's Wal-Mart Decision Affirms Class of 1.6 Million Current and Former Employees
Feb.02.2007 Federal Supply Schedules Opened To State And Local Governments For Recovery Purchasing
Feb.01.2007 Health Savings Accounts Expanded in Year-End Legislation
Jan.29.2007 MedImmune's Impact May Be Greater Than Many Suspect
Jan.29.2007 Award Fee Determination Must Be Made By Designated Official
Jan.26.2007 European Antitrust Alert
Jan.26.2007 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 2, Issue 1
Jan.25.2007 Senate Energy Committee Kicks Off Climate Change Debate
Jan.24.2007 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - January 2007
Jan.22.2007 Good Guidance Practices and Other Regulatory Management Reforms
Jan.19.2007 Getting Hotter
Jan.17.2007 FTC Testifies Before Senate Armed With New Pharmaceutical Patent Report: Paying Off Generics To Prevent Competition With Brand Name Drugs Should Be Prohibited
Jan.17.2007 Imminent Qualification As Source Must Be Considered By Agency
Jan.16.2007 FTC Issues New HSR Thresholds
Jan.16.2007 Alert for Clients Engaged In Retail or E-Commerce Credit/Debit Card Transactions
Jan.12.2007 Federal Circuit Opens Split Over Paralegal Reimbursement Under EAJA
Jan.10.2007 Opening up Energy Markets in Europe
Jan.08.2007 A New Horizon?
Jan.05.2007 FTC Reaches Settlement With Major Weight-Control Pill Marketers
Jan.04.2007 Court Opens Third Party's Files To Aid Private International Arbitration
Dec.29.2006 During Bid Protest Stay Agency Should Have Terminated Award To Large Business Following SBA Size Decision
Dec.27.2006 Department Of Justice Issues Updated Guidelines For Corporate Prosecution
Dec.22.2006 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 23, Issue 1 - (Fall/Winter 2006)
Dec.21.2006 Government Seeks To Push Defective Pricing Into Twilight Zone
Dec.20.2006 What The Far Council Giveth The Dar Council Taketh Away
Dec.20.2006 Hot Bench For Antitrust Cases
Dec.20.2006 Application Of On-Sale Bar Of Patented Method Requires Completion Of All Steps Prior To Critical Date
Dec.19.2006 Doctrine Of Equivalents Cannot Eliminate Claim Element
Dec.19.2006 CMS Letter to State Medicaid Directors Offers Much-Needed Guidance on DRA Employee Education Requirements
Dec.19.2006 Supreme Court Signals Shift in Obviousness Standard
Dec.18.2006 EU Data Protection Authorities Finds Transfer of Financial Data by SWIFT to U.S. Department of Treasury Illegal
Dec.18.2006 DOJ Issues Merger Process Reforms
Dec.18.2006 Challenge To Inconsistent Jury Verdicts Are Waived In Absence Of Timely Objections
Dec.15.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 17
Dec.14.2006 Private Party MEO Teammate Allowed Intervention To Protect Proprietary Information
Dec.13.2006 Department of Justice Supersedes Thompson Memorandum
Dec.13.2006 Out With Thompson - In With McNulty: Department of Justice Issues New Guidance to Prosecutors
Dec.13.2006 Merely Identifying Each Element Of A Claim In The Prior Art Is Insufficient To Establish Unpatentability
Dec.12.2006 SBA Modifies Time At Which Size Status Is Determined
Dec.07.2006 Proof Of Actual Bias Not Required To Show Conflict Of Interest
Dec.07.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - December 2006
Dec.07.2006 Preliminary Observations About DOD Class Deviation for Specialty Metals
Dec.05.2006 Supreme Court To Decide Who Qualifies As An "Original Source"
Dec.05.2006 Theft Prevention in the Workplace – Expected Changes Under Belgian Law
Dec.05.2006 Ernst & Young Report to IRS Reveals Tax-Exempt Hospitals' Community Benefits Justify Their Tax Exemptions
Dec.01.2006 New Hospital Conditions of Participation to Take Effect January 26, 2007
Nov.30.2006 Re: KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc.
Nov.29.2006 Re: Oral Argument in Weyerhaeuser Co. v. SS-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co.
Nov.28.2006 The Oral Argument in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
Nov.28.2006 Lost Profits Available For Long-Term Contract Breach
Nov.27.2006 Energy - Opening Up Gas Distribution in Germany
Nov.27.2006 Attorney Fees Claim Permissible Even After Action Dismissed With Prejudice
Nov.27.2006 Misapplied, “All Elements Rule” Leads To Summary Judgment Reversal
Nov.21.2006 Validity Of Patented Design Questionable Where Feature Affecting Utility Is Included
Nov.21.2006 Limited Amendments Of Infringement Contentions During Discovery Are Consistent With The Federal Discovery Rules
Nov.21.2006 Government's Complaints-In-Intervention Do Not Relate Back To Qui Tam Complaint
Nov.20.2006 Pharmaceutical Composition Claim Infringed By Structural Analog Equivalent
Nov.20.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - November 2006
Nov.16.2006 RFP Must State Whether Or Not Subcontractor Past Performance Will Be Considered
Nov.15.2006 German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court) Gives Further Guidance on Procedural Rights of Third Parties in Merger Cases
Nov.14.2006 German Telecoms Regulator Goes Back to Drawing Board on Competitive Analysis of Wholesale Leased Lines
Nov.14.2006 Court Re-Affirms Rule On CDA Interest
Nov.09.2006 On Time Means On Time
Nov.07.2006 FTC Warns Against an “Over-broad Application” of the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine and Offers Insights on Pharmaceutical Cases
Oct.31.2006 Supreme Court Denies Stolt-Nielsen's Certiorari Petition Challenging the DOJ's Decision to Prosecution
Oct.30.2006 Lear Doctrine Requires Licensee's Explicit Notice Of Invalid Claims
Oct.30.2006 Cyber Barbarians & Federal Data Breaches In 2006
Oct.25.2006 Implicit Motivation To Combine Sufficient To Show Obviousness
Oct.25.2006 Court Enters Final Order Settling FTC’s Charges Against Drug Company Warner Chilcott
Oct.25.2006 Cyber Barbarians & Federal Data Breaches In 2006
Oct.24.2006 Federal Circuit Finds Varietal Names Generic
Oct.24.2006 Reissue Validity Sustained Despite Alleged Surrender During Prosecution
Oct.19.2006 Misleading Discussions Can Be With Awardee
Oct.19.2006 E-Discovery: Implications for the Construction Industry
Oct.18.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 16
Oct.16.2006 Uncle Sam Stretches Its Long Arm to Enforce The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Oct.12.2006 No Longer The Berry Amendment But Worse
Oct.12.2006 President Signs Changes To Trademark Dilution Law
Oct.10.2006 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - Aug./Sept./Oct. 2006
Oct.09.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - Sept./Oct. 2006
Oct.09.2006 FTC Intervenes in the Formation of Proposed Joint Venture Between Boeing and Lockheed Martin
Oct.09.2006 Anthony Spadola, a Former Mount Sinai Hospital Employee and Broadcom Voice & Data Inc. Plead Guilty to Bid Rigging
Oct.06.2006 Congress Pressures DHS To Expedite Safety Act Approvals
Oct.05.2006 High Level Of Materiality And Intent Required For Unenforceability Due To Withheld Information
Oct.04.2006 It Doesn't Have To Be Fancy
Oct.04.2006 New Age Finally Dawns!
Oct.04.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 15
Oct.03.2006 Belgian Data Protection Authority Outlaws Transfer of Banking Records to US Department of Treasury
Sep.29.2006 New Options for Pharmaceutical Distribution in Europe? CFI Partly Quashes Commission Decision On Parallel Trade
Sep.29.2006 Base And Option Years Unit Pricing Not Releasable Under FOIA
Sep.27.2006 No Separate Takings Remedy Against The Government
Sep.22.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 14
Sep.19.2006 Protest Sustained Because Agency Unreasonably Evaluated Weaknesses In Protester's Proposal
Sep.15.2006 Limitations Of Cost Notice Obligations Must Be Met
Sep.15.2006 European Commission In Favor Of Security Breach Requirements
Sep.15.2006 Dismissal on the Grounds of Sickness: Prohibited or Permitted?
Sep.15.2006 Long Service Ticking Timebomb – Less Than a Month to Go
Sep.13.2006 Services In Contract Don't Trump "Non-Manufacturer Rule"
Sep.12.2006 T4C, IDIQ Clauses Are No Safe Harbor Against Breach Damages
Sep.12.2006 Nationwide CWA Permits Go Under the Knife
Sep.06.2006 EC Endorses German Regulatory Measure Which Will Open Markets to Broadband Network Providers
Sep.06.2006 Government Meets Its Waterloo In The Great Engine War
Sep.06.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 13
Sep.01.2006 Professional Responsibility Highlights (August/September 2006)
Aug.29.2006 Option Exercise Not Fully Discretionary
Aug.29.2006 HHS Issues Final Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors and Stark Exceptions for Donations of E-Prescribing & Electronic Health Record Technology
Aug.24.2006 The Federal Circuit Confirms Proper SCA Price Adjustments
Aug.22.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 12
Aug.21.2006 False Invoices Under CPA Contract Not False Claims "Presented" To U.S. Government
Aug.21.2006 No Patent Misuse When Based On Regulatory Prohibition
Aug.18.2006 DOD Scales Back Proposed Export Control Compliance Clauses
Aug.17.2006 “Page-Count" Method Supports Claim For Reimbursement Of Protest Costs
Aug.15.2006 Failure To Timely Object To Jury Instructions At Trial Limits Federal Circuit Claim Construction On Appeal
Aug.15.2006 Different Burden Of Proof For Relief From Judgment For Newly Discovered Evidence And For Fraud
Aug.11.2006 "The New Contract Is Better" Isn't A Justification
Aug.11.2006 NASA Proposes Cyber Lock-Down On Contractors
Aug.11.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 11
Aug.10.2006 New Obligations in Terms of Outplacement
Aug.08.2006 GAO Faults Army For Failure To Pursue Certificate Of Competency
Aug.04.2006 Request For Clarification Amounts To Discussions
Aug.02.2006 The Latest in AT/IP: FTC Rules Against Rambus -- Lack of Disclosure Leads to Finding of Violation of the Sherman Act
Aug.01.2006 Board Wields Sanctions To Enforce CDA Subpoena Against DOJ
Aug.01.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July/Aug. 2006
Jul.27.2006 Crowell & Moring Rated Leading Government Contracts Firm
Jul.27.2006 CMS Releases Final Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Marketing Guidelines
Jul.26.2006 “Unforeseen” Market Changes Do Not Justify Reopening Old Patent Case
Jul.25.2006 Changing Court Rules Signal Changing Court
Jul.25.2006 Proposed Rules of Evidence Amendment
Jul.25.2006 Hot Spots For UK Employers
Jul.24.2006 Fifth Circuit Faults IRS Attempt To Impose Intermediate Sanctions On Owners Of Home Health Care Agencies
Jul.24.2006 Foreign Patentee’s Licensing Efforts Satisfy “Commercial Activity” Exception To Federal Sovereign Immunities Act
Jul.24.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 10
Jul.20.2006 FTC, DOJ Hold Hearings On Refusals to Deal With Rivals Under Sherman Act
Jul.19.2006 Claims Filed After Critical Date To Provoke Interference Are Barred Unless They Are Not Materially Different From Claims Filed Before Critical Date
Jul.19.2006 Intent Required To Show Suppression And Inequitable Conduct
Jul.19.2006 Cyberthreats & Homeland Security: Stopping A Digital Pearl Harbor
Jul.13.2006 The European Court Of First Instance Annuls, For The First Time, An EU Merger Decision Approving A Concentration
Jul.11.2006 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - July 2006
Jul.10.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 9
Jul.10.2006 Conditional Sale Doesn’t Trigger Patent Exhaustion
Jun.30.2006 Privacy, Information and Consultation of the Works Council
Jun.30.2006 EPA Proposes Revised Clean Water Act Regulations for CAFOs in Response to Waterkeeper Decision
Jun.29.2006 DOJ Rebuked on Limitation of Legal Fee Coverage
Jun.28.2006 European Commission Revises Guidelines for Setting Fines in Antitrust Cases
Jun.26.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 8
Jun.23.2006 Supreme Court Affirms Broad Reach of Title VII’s Retaliation Ban
Jun.23.2006 Written Description Is Important In Construing Claim Terms
Jun.21.2006 If Football Is Coming Home.......Are Your Employees Staying at Home?
Jun.21.2006 FTC and DOJ Allow Electronic HSR Filings
Jun.21.2006 FTC/DOJ Open Joint Hearings on Single Firm Conduct
Jun.20.2006 Introducing Crowell & Moring's European Labor Law Alerts
Jun.20.2006 Unambiguous Settlement Agreement Precludes Consideration Of Parties’ Intent
Jun.20.2006 Government In Jurisdictional Pickle Over Reverse-False-Claims Action For Unpaid Customs Duties
Jun.16.2006 Contracting Authority Analyzed In 3 Cases
Jun.16.2006 OFCCP Issues Final Guidance on Systemic Compensation Discrimination and Contractor Self Evaluation
Jun.14.2006 CMS Comes Down Hard on State Medicaid Fraud Enforcement Efforts
Jun.13.2006 Restricted Recompetition Given Close Scrutiny
Jun.13.2006 No Likelihood Of Confusion Exists Even Where Marks Are Similar
Jun.12.2006 Difficulty In Articulating Description Is Relevant To A Determination Of Indefiniteness
Jun.12.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 7
Jun.08.2006 Sample Tasks Must Be Reasonable Proxy For Entire Contract
Jun.07.2006 New Provider and Supplier Enrollment Requirements To Take Effect June 20, 2006
Jun.07.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - June 2006
Jun.07.2006 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - June 2006
Jun.06.2006 FTC and DOJ Hold Initial Hearing on Predatory Pricing
Jun.06.2006 Order Of Precedence Clause Gets Boost
Jun.06.2006 In Willful Infringement Analysis, Exculpatory Opinion Of Counsel Discounted Where Evidence Concealed From Author
Jun.02.2006 Lack Of Experience Can Be Cured
Jun.01.2006 You Win Some/You Lose Some
Jun.01.2006 Professional Responsibility Highlights (May/June 2006)
Jun.01.2006 The At-Risk Construction Manager: A "Twilight Zone" of Liability
May.30.2006 You Makes Your Choice And Takes Your Chances
May.30.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 6
May.25.2006 Seminar On Teaming And Joint Ventures
May.23.2006 ASBCA Applies Affirmative Misconduct Standard In Denying Contractor's Estoppel Defense
May.23.2006 Claim Differentiation Doctrine Fails To Trump Interpretation Supported By Intrinsic Evidence
May.22.2006 Patent Defenses Addressed On The Merits Even After Non-Infringement Finding Affirmed
May.22.2006 Unclaimed Functions Cannot Be Imported Into A Means-Plus-Function Limitation
May.19.2006 CMS Loses Medicare Protest Under New Competitive Procedures
May.18.2006 EPA Issues Notice of Intent to Conduct an EIS for the Proposed Reissuance of CAFO General Permits for Oklahoma and New Mexico
May.16.2006 Seminar On Improving Past Performance Evaluations
May.16.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 5
May.11.2006 You Must Ante Up To Play In The Game
May.10.2006 The Global Collision Of Privacy & Homeland Security
May.08.2006 Declaratory Judgment Actions Examined
May.08.2006 Monitoring Employee Blogs: Unanticipated Costs And Risks
May.05.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2006
May.03.2006 DOE Solution To Underfunded Pension Plans: Don't Pay For Them
May.01.2006 Jurisdiction Found Over 85-804 Indemnification Clause Breach Claims
May.01.2006 Crowell & Moring Convinces Second Circuit to Hold EPA Regulatory Scheme Unlawful
May.01.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 4
Apr.26.2006 Change In Advocated Claim Construction Theory Permitted On Appeal
Apr.25.2006 Too Bad, So Sad
Apr.24.2006 Settlement Prevents Contingent Payment Of Litigation Royalty
Apr.21.2006 Battlefield Contractors Need Federal Forum For Tort Claims
Apr.19.2006 New Electronic Discovery Rules Approved
Apr.18.2006 Supreme Court Approves E-Discovery Amendments to FRCP
Apr.18.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 3
Apr.17.2006 No Infringement Where Structural Difference Renders Claimed Function Impossible
Apr.14.2006 Exclusive Licensor Subject To Personal Jurisdiction
Apr.14.2006 CAS Offsets Permitted Among Different Contract Types
Apr.14.2006 OIG Opines on Nominal Value, Federal Health Care Program Carve-Outs, and Applicability of Safe Harbors in Context of Multi-Layered Relationships
Apr.12.2006 Contradictory Technical And Cost Evaluations Don't Add Up
Apr.10.2006 Top Congressional Staffers Speak on Homeland Security – April 12th
Apr.07.2006 To Notify or Not to Notify - 2006 Update
Apr.07.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - April 2006
Apr.03.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 2
Apr.03.2006 Breach Of Good Faith Doesn't Require Malice
Mar.31.2006 CAS Coverage And Indirect Costs
Mar.30.2006 Acid Claims Not Infringed By Partly Neutralized Acid
Mar.30.2006 Evidence Of Accused Product Provides Meaningful Context For Claim Construction Analysis
Mar.30.2006 TUPE or not TUPE … more of a foresight saga?
Mar.29.2006 Determination Of Whether Trade Dress Is Product Design Is A Factual Question
Mar.29.2006 Summary Judgment Motion For Non-Infringement Requires Only Arguments, Not Evidence
Mar.27.2006 But Judge, That Was Only What We Said To Congress
Mar.22.2006 Preamble Limits Claim Where Body Of Claim Fails To Recite Complete Invention
Mar.21.2006 Past Performance Formula For Disaster
Mar.20.2006 Adverse Economic Interest Not Sufficient To Confer Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
Mar.20.2006 International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 1
Mar.20.2006 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - March 2006
Mar.17.2006 A Full Markman Claim Construction Hearing Is Not Always Required
Mar.16.2006 European Data Protection Watch Dog Outlaws E-Mail Content Screening
Mar.15.2006 Can Employee Releases Bar False Claims Act Actions?
Mar.13.2006 Rep. Hunter Steals Page From NISPOM Play Book (Literally)
Mar.09.2006 DOL Announces New LM-10 Guidance and Extended Filing Deadline
Mar.08.2006 Union Obtains Protest Relief In District Court
Mar.07.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2006
Mar.06.2006 Offeror's Flip-Flop On Berry Amendment Compliance Dooms Award
Mar.03.2006 Competence Of Proffered Counsel Opinions Is Relevant To Willful Infringement
Mar.02.2006 270
Mar.02.2006 DOD Issues Final Rule Re Criminal Jurisdiction Over Employees Of Battlefield Contractors
Mar.02.2006 U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Title VII's Definition of “Employer” is not a Jurisdictional Issue
Mar.02.2006 The Maryland “Wal-Mart Bill” – Is it Preempted?
Mar.01.2006 Report Highlights Problematic Katrina Contracting Practices
Feb.28.2006 Report Highlights Problematic Katrina Contracting Practices
Feb.28.2006 European Data Protection Working Party Issues Golden “Rules of Thumb” for Whistle-Blowing Hotlines
Feb.24.2006 Chutzpah Goes Unrewarded
Feb.24.2006 Fraud, Wast and Abuse Guidance for Medicare Part D
Feb.23.2006 Overhead Pool Flunks "Homogeneity" Test Absent "Benefit" To The Government
Feb.23.2006 "Point Of Novelty" Test Remains For Design Patent Infringement
Feb.22.2006 No Right Of Cross-Appeal From Favorable Decisions
Feb.21.2006 Visa Restrictions Limit Authorization To Practice Before Patent And Trademark Office
Feb.21.2006 Failure To Cite Business Relationship To Applicant In Declaration To PTO Results In Finding Of Inequitable Conduct
Feb.21.2006 Public Disclosure Of "Industry-Wide" Overbilling Practice Bars Qui Tam Suit Based Upon Similar But Undisclosed Fraudulent Transactions
Feb.17.2006 Failure To Update Invalidates Evaluation And Responsibility Determination
Feb.16.2006 Exporting Ex-Pats
Feb.15.2006 GSA "Invites" Schedule Contractors To Examine Origin Of Offered Products
Feb.14.2006 When It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Usually Is
Feb.13.2006 OCI Mitigation Doesn't Go Far Enough
Feb.13.2006 Maryland Raises The Minimum Wage
Feb.10.2006 EPA Issues New Deadlines for CAFO NPDES Permits and NMPs
Feb.10.2006 No Out-Of-Pockets, No Interest
Feb.10.2006 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - February 2006
Feb.09.2006 Awarded Costs Constrained By Federal Rules And Regional Circuit Law
Feb.09.2006 Congress Requires False Claims Act Employee Materials for Medicaid Providers and Plans
Feb.09.2006 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 22, Issue 2 - (Winter 2005/2006)
Feb.08.2006 Bad Alchemy: Turning Estimates Into Fraud
Feb.06.2006 Unequal Price Discussions Sink Award
Feb.02.2006 Plain Meaning Of Statute Restricts Competition
Feb.02.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2006
Feb.01.2006 CMS Part D Guidance on LTC Pharmacy Rebates Creates Confusion
Feb.01.2006 Judges Tosses RICO Managed Care Claims Against PacifiCare
Jan.31.2006 Indefiniteness Determined In Context Of Entire Specification
Jan.30.2006 No Collateral Estoppel As To A Reasonable Royalty Rate
Jan.30.2006 Termination Clause Trumps Cost-Sharing
Jan.27.2006 FY05 Protestors Achieve Effective Relief 37% Of Time At GAO
Jan.27.2006 Environmental Appeals Board Ratifies First Group of Air Consent Agreements
Jan.27.2006 OFCCP Moves To Eliminate Burdensome EO Survey And Offers "Grace Period" For Compliance With Internet Applicant Rule
Jan.26.2006 OFCCP Moves To Eliminate Burdensome EO Survey
Jan.23.2006 Termination Clause Trumps Cost-Sharing
Jan.21.2006 European Data Protection Working Party Issues Golden “Rules of Thumb” for Whistle-Blowing Hotlines
Jan.18.2006 Mitigation Plan Doesn't Always Heal OCI
Jan.17.2006 Same Old, Same Old – Or New Age?
Jan.17.2006 Explicit Statement In Patent Specification Does Not Limit Claims To Preferred Embodiment
Jan.10.2006 “Offer To Sell” Requires Consideration Of Nature Of Intended Product
Jan.10.2006 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - January 2006
Jan.09.2006 French Corporate Environment Not So Whistleblower-Friendly
Jan.06.2006 DOJ Consent Order Resolves Antitrust Concerns for United - PacifiCare Transaction
Jan.06.2006 Commission issues Discussion Paper on Art. 82 EC and Green Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of EC Antitrust Rules
Jan.05.2006 "Presentment" Defense Rejected In Medicare FCA Case
Jan.04.2006 District of Columbia Law Limiting Pharmaceutical Prices Held Unconstitutional
Jan.04.2006 Booting-Caused Program Code Copying Is Not Copyright Infringement In A Case Of First Impression
Jan.04.2006 Medical Device Lawsuit Watch - January 2006
Jan.03.2006 Pitiful Price Evaluation Unfairly Caters To Certain Bidders
Jan.01.2006 Construction Group Secures Favorable Settlement for PCL Civil Constructors
Dec.30.2005 Collateral Contracts Rule Explained
Dec.28.2005 Presolicitation Statements Not Dispositive Of Whether Mod Is Beyond Scope
Dec.21.2005 All Similar Past Performance Scores Are Not Comparable
Dec.20.2005 False Claim Need Not Be "Presented" By Defendant
Dec.19.2005 Unfair Disqualification Results In Reinstatement
Dec.15.2005 Subway Wins Latest Round Of 15-Year Construction Litigation Saga
Dec.15.2005 Crowell & Moring Attorneys Successfully Rebuff Challenge to Modification of Medicare Coordination of Benefits Contract
Dec.13.2005 Design Effort Explicitly Excluded From Commercial Contract Work Qualified As IR&D
Dec.09.2005 HHS OIG Issues Work Plan for 2006
Dec.08.2005 Sole-Source Protest Win Nets Only Protest Costs
Dec.07.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - December 2005
Dec.02.2005 Arbitrators Dismiss United Healthcare’s Antitrust Claims against Chicago Health Care System
Dec.02.2005 Court Tells Agency To Address Illicit Advantage In Recompetition
Dec.01.2005 Professional Responsibility Highlights (November/December 2005)
Dec.01.2005 New DOL Reporting Requirements For Employers
Dec.01.2005 To Notify, or not to Notify? Trend Towards Security Breach Notification Laws Continues
Nov.30.2005 Third Circuit Issues Important HIPAA Decision
Nov.29.2005 First Circuit Upholds Maine Law Requiring Disclosures by Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Nov.21.2005 CMS Guidance Bars Providers from Seeking Payment Over Medicare Rates from Secondary Payors
Nov.21.2005 Technical Data Rights Decision Blurs Issues
Nov.18.2005 Past Performance Remains Fertile Ground For Protest Challenges
Nov.17.2005 Proposed Changes To EEO-1 Reporting Impact All Employers With 100 or More Employees
Nov.14.2005 D.C. Circuit Refuses to Remedy Hospital Wage Data Errors by Medicare
Nov.11.2005 Legal Approaches To Waiving Co-Payment Obligations As An Out-Of-Network Provider
Nov.09.2005 Stay of FSS Procurement Requires Prompt Action
Nov.09.2005 False Eligibility Application For Grant May Violate FCA
Nov.07.2005 Attention To Small Business Subcontracting Plan Is No Small Matter
Nov.03.2005 HHS Proposes Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor and Stark Exceptions For The Donation of E-Prescribing & Electronic Health Record Technology
Nov.02.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - November 2005
Nov.01.2005 USPS Auction Crash Lands
Oct.31.2005 Davis-Bacon Act Reinstated
Oct.29.2005 TRO Blocks Deceptive Claims That Drug Card Would Provide Free Drugs
Oct.28.2005 FTC ALJ Order Hospital Merger Undone
Oct.27.2005 Court Enforces 50% Labor Value Rule
Oct.25.2005 "Plain Meaning" In The Federal Circuit
Oct.23.2005 Court Lifts Injunction Against EEOC Retiree Health Regulations
Oct.19.2005 Administrative Leave OK If Feds Gave It Too
Oct.18.2005 Agency Playing Favorites Leads To Bad Faith Termination
Oct.14.2005 DoD Relaxes Cost Rules For Katrina Donated Leave
Oct.12.2005 OFCCP Issues "Internet Applicant" Definition
Oct.10.2005 DoJ “FOIA Post” Demonstrates Continued Policy To Disclose Unit Pricing
Oct.10.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - October 2005
Oct.10.2005 OFCCP Issues "Internet Applicant" Definition
Oct.05.2005 OMB Reverses $250,000 Micropurchase Cap
Oct.04.2005 Contractors Must Check Everywhere "Reasonable" On FedBizOpps
Oct.01.2005 Professional Responsibility Highlights (September/October 2005)
Sep.30.2005 "Certain" Means No Weasel Words
Sep.27.2005 GSBCA Rejects GSA's Defective Pricing Allegations
Sep.20.2005 Evaluation Backup Gets Hard Look
Sep.08.2005 The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!
Sep.08.2005 New State Security Breach Notification Laws
Sep.06.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - September 2005
Sep.06.2005 Emergency Procurements In Support Of Hurricane Katrina Relief
Aug.23.2005 New Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 Enacted
Aug.18.2005 Cancellation Of RFP Upended
Aug.12.2005 Corrective Action Needs Correcting
Aug.09.2005 CPA Procurements Subject to Civil False Claims Act
Aug.09.2005 Fourth Circuit Decides That An Employer Cannot Obtain A Waiver of An Emplotee's Informal FMLA Complaint
Aug.05.2005 Cracks In The AFL-CIO Federation: Impact On Employers
Aug.05.2005 Employer's Overly-Broad Confidentiality Rule Violates Labor Law
Aug.04.2005 Court of International Trade Takes Jurisdiction Over Civil FCA Case
Aug.02.2005 Insurance Commission Split Is Kickback
Aug.02.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - August 2005
Aug.01.2005 Professional Responsibility Highlights (July/August 2005)
Jul.29.2005 Travel Expense Rebates And Incentives Result In $40 Million FCA Settlement
Jul.28.2005 Later Reg Trumps Contract Clause Again
Jul.22.2005 False Estimates: A Misguided Notion Under The FCA
Jul.14.2005 Court Limits Good Faith Presumptions Of Government
Jul.12.2005 It's July In Washington So Lets Publish Some Export Control Regulations
Jul.12.2005 Constitutionality Of SDB Preference Still Undecided
Jul.08.2005 Closing A Business Unit Creates An Opportunity To Recover Unfunded Pension Costs
Jul.06.2005 Subs: Don't Forget The Disputes Clause
Jul.06.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July 2005
Jul.05.2005 Do You Often Have A Hard Time Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning? Can A Psychological Test Violate The ADA?
Jul.01.2005 New Kickback Safe Harbor for Federally Qualified Health Centers
Jun.28.2005 Supreme Court Addresses The Statute of Limitations For Retaliation Claims Under The False Claims Act
Jun.27.2005 States’ Statutes Of Limitations Apply To Federal FCA Retaliation Claims
Jun.22.2005 Relaxation Of Requirements = Out-Of-Scope Mod
Jun.20.2005 Crowell & Moring Rated Leading Government Contracts Firm
Jun.16.2005 Potential Loss Of Workforce Supports Incumbent's Injunction
Jun.10.2005 DOJ Says HIPAA Criminal Liability Limited to Covered Entities
Jun.10.2005 OPM Amends FEHBP Regulations
Jun.09.2005 June 8 FAC Confirms FAR Changes
Jun.08.2005 CMS Releases Retiree Plan Drug Subsidy Guidance
Jun.07.2005 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 22, Issue 1 - (Spring 2005)
Jun.07.2005 Privacy Perils Loom For DHS Contractors
Jun.06.2005 FTC Alert
Jun.02.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - June 2005
Jun.01.2005 CMS Issues Draft Part D Plan Marketing Guidelines
Jun.01.2005 Professional Responsibility Highlights (May/June 2005)
Jun.01.2005 "Piggy-Backer" Falls at GAO
May.27.2005 Unhealthy Business Practices Overseas Infect Health Care Companies
May.25.2005 Don't Assume That A Debriefing Is Continuing After The Initial Session
May.20.2005 Contractor Must Actually Receive Final Decision To Start The Clock
May.17.2005 DC Insurance Commissioner Clarifies Charitable Obligations of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plan
May.10.2005 DoD Issues Final Rule About Contractor Personnel In The Battlefield
May.09.2005 Watch That Wording – Appellate Court Invalidates IBM's Standard Release
May.05.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2005
May.01.2005 Postal Service Adopts New “Best Commercial Practices” Acquisition Rules
Apr.26.2005 Federal Circuit Clarifies Prejudice Review In Bid Protest Cases
Apr.18.2005 Agency Can't Ignore Obvious Costs In Evaluation
Apr.15.2005 Environmental Petitioners ask Second Circuit for Rehearing
Apr.13.2005 Defense Base Closure Process Launched
Apr.12.2005 Court Tackles Hubzone Issues In Two Cases
Apr.07.2005 "Disparate Impact" Theory Available In Age Discrimination Cases
Apr.07.2005 "Disparate Impact" Theory Available In Age Discrimination Cases
Apr.07.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - April 2005
Apr.04.2005 Contractors Must Go The Extra Mile For Preaward Review
Apr.01.2005 Veterans' Preference Comes Of Age
Apr.01.2005 Professional Responsibility Highlights (March/April 2005)
Mar.24.2005 A Sewer By Any Other Name Would Smell As Foul
Mar.23.2005 Court Applies Totten Reasoning To Subcontractor Liability Under FCA
Mar.22.2005 Using Available Funds For Other Purposes No Excuse For Breach
Mar.17.2005 Commercial Items Rulemaking Tackles Hot Issues
Mar.16.2005 Substantial Changes To CAS Administration Regulations
Mar.11.2005 No Past Performance = Neutral, Not Negative
Mar.08.2005 Gainsharing Client Alert
Mar.04.2005 Punctilious Performance Required For Recovery
Mar.03.2005 Similar State FCA Allegations Yield Mixed Results
Mar.03.2005 Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and Medicare Advantage FIinal Regulations
Mar.02.2005 DOL Provides New ERISA Guidance Regarding Reporting of Commissions and Fees Paid to Insurance Brokers and Agents
Mar.02.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2005
Mar.01.2005 GAO Finds Druyun Contracts Flawed
Feb.23.2005 "National Security" Limits Judicial Review Of CICA Stay Override
Feb.14.2005 Unicor Banned From Competing In Small Business Set Asides For Services
Feb.09.2005 Undocumented Clarifications Mean Undone State Award
Feb.07.2005 A GSA Schedule Buy Must Be All Schedule
Feb.07.2005 New Developments on Drug Reimportation
Feb.07.2005 Final Health Coverage Portability Regulations Clarify Preexisting Condition Exclusion Requirements
Feb.05.2005 IG Issues Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals
Feb.05.2005 Court Says Provider Can See Search Affidavit
Feb.04.2005 DSCA Relaxes Contingent Fee Limitation On FMF Contracts
Feb.02.2005 Contractor Wins Defective Pricing Battle In Great Engine War
Feb.02.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2005
Jan.29.2005 Ambulatory Surgery Center Can Press Antitrust Claim against Hospital
Jan.24.2005 New Standard Clauses For Data Transfers To Data Controllers In Non-EU Countries
Jan.21.2005 DAM Contractor's Underbidding Insufficient For FCA Liability
Jan.11.2005 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 21, Issue 2 - (Winter 2004/2005)
Jan.07.2005 GAO Scallops Procurement, Finding Solicitation Was Flaky
Jan.05.2005 No Match, No Deal In FSS Buy
Jan.05.2005 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - January 2005
Dec.16.2004 Court Cuts Back FCA Coverage For Medicaid Fraud
Dec.06.2004 R-E-V-I-E-W Does Not Spell R-E-L-I-E-F
Dec.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - December 2004
Nov.03.2004 Even Short Contract Extensions Require Updated Service Contract Act Wages
Nov.01.2004 Court Reviews Past Performance Evaluation On Existing Contract
Nov.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - November 2004
Nov.01.2004 New Patent Applications for Health Insurance Plan Technology Innovations
Oct.26.2004 Partial Termination Doesn't Allow Repricing In Commercial Services Contract
Oct.20.2004 GAO Sustains For Failure To Set Aside For Small Business
Oct.14.2004 Divided Federal Circuit Disallows Recovery Of Interest As Damages
Oct.07.2004 Agency Liable For Negligent Estimate In LOE Contract
Oct.07.2004 Risk Of Accepting Out-Of-Scope Task/Delivery Orders Gets Greater
Oct.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - October 2004
Oct.01.2004 False Statement Liability Involving Federal Grantees Curtailed Again
Sep.29.2004 A Day Early Is Too Late
Sep.17.2004 Split D.C. Circuit Limits False Claims Act Liability Under Federal Grants
Sep.14.2004 Agency Must Discuss Evaluated Weaknesses
Sep.10.2004 GAO Finds "Classic Example" Of Impaired Objectivity OCI
Sep.07.2004 ASBCA Declares Material Breach, Allows Contractor To Stop Work
Sep.01.2004 Promotion of HSAs May Raise Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser Registration Concerns
Sep.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - September 2004
Aug.26.2004 First Ever HIPAA Privacy Criminal Conviction
Aug.26.2004 The Long Tail Of Government Contracts
Aug.23.2004 Cardinal Change In MOD Requires Competition
Aug.23.2004 DOL Issues Final Regulations on FLSA Exemptions
Aug.16.2004 Court Dismisses Resident Match Antitrust Lawsuit
Aug.16.2004 A-76 Mix And Match Faulted By GAO
Aug.02.2004 SDB Preference Constitutional
Aug.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - August 2004
Jul.30.2004 LOC Clause Applies To Each Delivery Order, Not Full Contract
Jul.30.2004 T4D Slam Dunked To T4C When Contractor Misled
Jul.30.2004 CO'S Opinion Due No Deference On Statutory Application
Jul.30.2004 B&P Costs Don't Include Sub Costs Or Profit
Jul.26.2004 FTC/DOJ Report Pushes Competition for Health Care Industry Ills
Jul.26.2004 IRS Expands Period for Provider Incentive Payment Deductibility
Jul.26.2004 CMS Issues Proposed Regulations Implementing Medicare Part D Drug Benefit and Medicare Advantage Program
Jul.22.2004 CMS Holds Open Meeting on Medicare Advantage Regions
Jul.02.2004 OIG Issues Corporate Compliance Guide for Boards
Jul.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July 2004
Jun.30.2004 GAO Finds Discussions Were Not Meaningful And, In Fact, Misleading
Jun.30.2004 As He Exits, Bremer Leaves Contractors With Limited Immunity From Iraqi Law
Jun.22.2004 ERISA Preempts State Law Claims Challenging Coverage Denials
Jun.18.2004 Class Action Suits Against Non-Profit Hospitals
Jun.09.2004 COFC Denies Protest But Notes Possible Procurement Integrity And Antitrust Violations
Jun.09.2004 NRO Prohibits Exclusive Teaming Agreements
Jun.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - June 2004
May.27.2004 DOL Issues Final Rules on COBRA Notice Requirements
May.26.2004 Declaratory Relief Available For NAFI Contractor At Board
May.21.2004 For Iraq War Items Sole Source Award, COFC Grants Limited Injunctive Relief Despite OCI And CICA Violations
May.19.2004 Safety Act Red Tape Wins The First Round: Applications 19 -- Approvals 0
May.19.2004 GAO Dismisses Subcontract Protest
May.10.2004 Contracting Officer's Final Decision Not Afforded RES Judicata Status
May.10.2004 Fourth Circuit Extends Time For Retaliation Claims
May.10.2004 Employee Unions And Elected Representatives Lack Standing For GAO Protests Of Private Sector Awards In A-76 Competitions
May.10.2004 COFC Reverses Another Cica Stay Override
May.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - May 2004
Apr.28.2004 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 21, Issue 1 - (Spring 2004)
Apr.28.2004 Employee Unions And Elected Representatives Lack Standing For GAO Protests Of Private Sector Awards In A-76 Competitions
Apr.27.2004 Agency Reasonably Distrusts Its Own Estimates
Apr.18.2004 SBA Size Standards Revised To Cap Number Of Employees
Apr.10.2004 IT Encryption Certificate Required By The DOD
Apr.06.2004 The Stark II Phase II Interim Final Rule
Apr.01.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - April 2004
Mar.26.2004 EPA Signs "Self-audit" Agreements With Three Hospitals
Mar.22.2004 GAO Protest Jurisdiction Covers Concession Contracts
Mar.11.2004 HHS OIG Report on MCO Institutional Status Patients
Mar.10.2004 Navy Pays Lost Profits For Misappropriating FSS Contractor's Data
Mar.08.2004 FEHBP Final Rule on Provider Sanctions
Mar.04.2004 When Does An Oral Presentation Become A "Discussion"?
Mar.02.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - March 2004
Mar.01.2004 Fourth Circuit Affirms Award By Interstate Compact
Feb.26.2004 Intentional Low Bid Is Not A False Claim
Feb.18.2004 Army Can't Bypass Competition Without Court Scrutiny
Feb.13.2004 Contractor Wins Directed Award In A-76 Protest
Feb.13.2004 Crowell & Moring Helps St. Francis Hospital Achieve OIG "Self-Disclosure" Settlement
Feb.12.2004 Proposed NRO Clause Would Require Broad Disclosure -- Comments Due Tomorrow
Feb.11.2004 FTC Challenges Consummated Hospital Merger in Illinois and Related Physician Pricing Actions
Feb.09.2004 Defense Contractors Begin To Feel Effect Of DoD Requirement To Provide Unique Item Identifiers And Unit Cost Information
Feb.04.2004 Fifth Circuit Reaffirms Breadth Of FCPA's Anti-Bribery Provisions
Feb.02.2004 Congress Sends Mixed Signals On Buy American Requirements
Feb.02.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - February 2004
Jan.28.2004 CFC Requires Strict Adherence To FAR’s Data Rights Clause
Jan.20.2004 White House Will Screen Appointees Seeking Outside Employment
Jan.16.2004 Congressional Investigation of Pharmacy Rebates on Medicaid Drugs
Jan.15.2004 Expert Advice -- Caveat Emptor
Jan.12.2004 The FCC Expands Eligibility for Discounts on Charges for Telecommunications Services Supporting Rural Health Care
Jan.08.2004 Fourth Circuit Interprets Corporate Knowledge And Materiality Under FCA
Jan.07.2004 Proposed Federal Guidelines For Compliance Programs Published For Comment
Jan.06.2004 Government Liable For Foreign Sub's Patent Infringement
Jan.02.2004 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - January 2004
Jan.01.2004 The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
Dec.22.2003 Tax Provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
Dec.22.2003 House and Senate Pass Mental Health Parity Extension
Dec.22.2003 Treasury and IRS Announce 2003-2004 Priority Guidance Plan for Employee Benefits Issues
Dec.22.2003 IRS Announces Inflation-Adjusted Dollar Limits for 2004
Nov.28.2003 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Issues a Final Rule on Medicare + Choice ("M+C")
Nov.15.2003 CMS Issues EMTALA Interim Guidance to State Survey Agency Directors Concerning Hospital Compliance
Nov.02.2003 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - November 2003
Nov.01.2003 CAFO Rulemaking Litigation Enters the Briefing Stage
Oct.30.2003 ASBCA Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of FEHBP Contractor on Audit Disallowance
Oct.02.2003 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - October 2003
Sep.24.2003 HHS Clarifies NPDB Reporting Obligations
Sep.23.2003 IRS Allows Reimbursement of OTC Drugs Under Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
Sep.16.2003 HHS OIG Publishes Proposed Rules on Exclusion of Providers for Charging Medicare Substantially in Excess of Usual Charges
Sep.02.2003 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - September 2003
Aug.11.2003 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 20, Issue 2 - (Summer 2003)
Aug.02.2003 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - August 2003
Jul.31.2003 Conferees Reach Agreement on Medicare Contractor Reform Legislation
Jul.24.2003 Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment Against Health Plan's Antitrust Challenge to Hospital Combination in Pennsylvania
Jul.20.2003 First IRS letter ruling on "Health Reimbursement Arrangements"
Jul.16.2003 EEOC Proposes to Ease ADEA Limits on Health Benefit Reductions for Medicare Eligible Retirees
Jul.02.2003 Managed Care Lawsuit Watch - July 2003
Jun.19.2003 North Carolina's Search for Lagoon Alternatives
Jun.14.2003 Sixth Circuit Upholds Finding that Agreement Between Andrx and Hoechst Marion Roussel was a Per Se Illegal Market Division
Jun.13.2003 FDA Gives Boost to Generics
Jun.12.2003 Supreme Court Relaxes Proof Requirements in EEO Cases
Jun.04.2003 Indiana Issues First CAFO General Permit Under Revised Federal CAFO Rules
Jun.01.2003 CAFO Rule - Environmental Groups Identify Their Legal Claims
May.30.2003 DOL Issues Proposed COBRA Notice Regulations
May.28.2003 CMS Determines Not to Proceed With Specialty Hospital Amendment to Stark Rule
May.25.2003 EPA Administrator’s Resignation Letter Touts CAFO Rule Among Environmental Achievements
May.16.2003 Environmental Groups Challenge EPA's Guidelines Intended to Help Farmers Determine Whether They Need Air Permits; Farm Groups Argue for Delay in Permitting for Diesel Engines and CAFOs
May.16.2003 Environmental Groups and EPA Settle Suit Relating to Particulate Matter Pollution in the San Joaquin Valley of California
May.15.2003 DOL Compliance Guidance for Health Plans
May.07.2003 Texas and U.S.E.P.A. Square Off on the Use of Citizen-Collected Evidence
Apr.12.2003 HHS OIG Audit Report on Institutional Status of Medicare + Choice Enrollees
Apr.08.2003 RICO Claims Arbitrable
Apr.03.2003 U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Kentucky "Any Willing Provider" Laws that Restrict HMOs' Ability to Select Providers
Mar.07.2003 Mining Law Monitor - Volume 20, Issue 1 - (Winter 2003)
Mar.01.2003 The U.S. Supreme Court Denies Petition for Review of Clean Water Act Ruling That Could Adversely Affect Farmers and Ranchers
Feb.23.2003 HHS Issues New HIPAA Security Rule
Feb.15.2003 Health Plans in the Cross Hairs: FDA Gets Tough on Imported Prescription Drugs Plans Could Face Criminal, Civil Liability
Feb.04.2003 Hospital Not A Subcontractor Under Federal Employees Health Benefit Program
Jan.27.2003 CMS Issues Quality Improvement Program Requirements for Hospitals
Jan.15.2003 Ohio Supreme Court Grants $32.5 Million Punitive Damages in Challenge to Benefit Denial and Review Process
Jan.07.2003 Maine's Discount Drug Program Struck Down
Dec.15.2002 DOJ Antitrust Settlement Requires North Carolina Physician Group To Disband
Dec.04.2002 New HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance
Nov.20.2002 11th Circuit Grants Appeal of Provider Class Certification
Oct.15.2002 OIG Focus on Hospital DRG Outlier Payments
Sep.12.2002 Federal Trade Commission Workshop On Healthcare Competition Law & Policy
Aug.15.2002 HHS Publishes Final Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule
Aug.01.2002 FTC Report Recommends Changes in Hatch-Waxman Law
Jun.02.2002 Recent HIPAA and ERISA Guidance and Rules Issued by Department of Labor and HHS
Jun.01.2002 HHS Releases Supplemental HIPAA Regulations
Apr.01.2002 Pharmaceutical Company Settles FTC Charges for Unintentional Disclosure of Email Addresses of Consumers
Mar.28.2002 Changes To HIPAA Privacy Rule Proposed By HHS Secretary - Public Comments Due By April 26, 2002
Mar.25.2002 OSHA - Beverly Settlement Requires Lifting Equipment To Avoid Ergonomic Injuries
Mar.19.2002 On Behalf of Sagamore Health Network, Crowell & Moring Attorneys Successfully Defeated a Preliminary Injunction Motion Brought by Gateway Contracting Services in the Southern District of Indiana
Feb.21.2002 FTC Advisory Opinion Approves Collective Negotiation With Payors for Clinically Integrated Physician Network
Feb.20.2002 New HHS Guidance on Providers' Ability to Seek Payment Over Medicare Rates from Secondary Payors -- SUPERSEDED
January 12, 2002 Quality of Service Deficiency Rejected as Basis for False Claim
Jan.05.2002 DOL Publishes Q&A on Claims Processing and Appeals Regulations
Dec.15.2001 Stark Law "Set In Advance" Rule Definition Delayed
Nov.21.2001 HHS OIG Issues Open Letter On Changes In OIG Civil Fraud Settlement Policies and Practices
Oct.23.2001 Federation of Physicians and Dentists Consents to Judgment in Delaware Sherman Act Case
Aug.21.2001 EEOC Revokes Stance That Health Plans Discriminate If Retiree Benefits Change Upon Medicare Eligibility
Aug.01.2001 Courts Upholds Law Mandating Matching Copays and Supply Limits for Mail and Retail Pharmacy HMO Benefits
Jul.28.2001 Appeals Court Ruling Permits "Disproportionate Share Payment" Reopenings and Authorizes "Mandamus" Review of Medicare Action
Jul.10.2001 Partial Delay in New ERISA Claims Review and Appeal Regulations
Mar.03.2001 Managed Care Litigation
Mar.01.2001 Circuit City Stores V. Adams: The Supreme Court Strikes A Blow In Favor Of Resolving Employment Disputes Through Mandatory Arbitration
Jan.31.2001 Phase I Final Stark Rule Issued
Dec.28.2000 Final Privacy Regulations Are Issued Under HIPAA
Dec.01.2000 Age Discrimination Act Waivers: Final EEOC Regulations Prohibit "Tender Back" Provisions And Set Forth New Requirements For Legally-Valid Waivers
Nov.01.2000 OFCCP Finalizes Rule Governing AAPs, Effective December 13, 2000: Ambiguous And Substantial New Requirements Face Contractors
Jul.01.2000 Non-Union Employers Beware! Your Employees Now Have Weingarten Rights
Apr.01.2000 OFCCP — Here They Go Again!
Jun.01.1999 Microsoft Temps Win Another Round
Jun.01.1999 Supreme Court Holds That Schools May be Held Liable Under Title IX for Student-on-Student Sexual Harassment
Jun.01.1999 Supreme Court Eases Standard For Recovery Of Punitive Damages Under Title VII
May.01.1999 Supreme Court Narrows ERISA Preemption Protection For Insured Employee Benefit Plans
Apr.01.1999 Court Bars Employer's Secondary Boycott Damages Action Because Of Arbitration Clause In Collective Bargaining Agreement
Apr.01.1999 Court Scuttles Employer Attempts To Avoid Affirmative Action Plan Reporting Requirements
Mar.01.1999 The EEOC's New ADA Guidance: A Mixed Bag For Employers
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