On Saturday January 11, 2014, arbitrator Frank Horowitz reduced Alex Rodriguez’s suspension from 211 games to 162 games (plus any 2014 post-season games) for his use of performance enhancing drugs (“PEDs”) and obstruction of the MLB’s investigation...
On November 27, 2013, President Obama signed the Drug Quality and Security Act (the Act) (Public Law No. 113-54) into law. The Act addresses two hot-button issues relating to marketed drug products: the extent of federal oversight of compounding...
The FTC reached a settlement with a national consumer reporting agency and its debt collection affiliate for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Section 5 of the FTC Act. FCRA imposes obligations on consumer reporting agencies, including...
Berkeley Research Group’s authors1 used GIPSY™, a proprietary electric sector planning model, to evaluate the long-term interplay among U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas policy, retirement of the existing nuclear fleet, and the...
In the UK, we have (like a number of other jurisdictions) an array of definitions for gaming products. “Bingo” is defined as “any version of that game, irrespective of by what name it is described” (s353(1)), which is not the most helpful definition....
On January 16, 2014, the U.S. Senate passed an omnibus spending bill for FY 2014 that includes several important healthcare provisions, and President Obama signed the legislation the following day on January 17, 2014. Importantly, the package...
On January 10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published proposed rules labeled as “policy and technical” changes to the Medicare Advantage (Part C) and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D) Programs. Comments to the proposed...
There were a number of new developments with respect to the cross-border application of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) requirements for swaps in the latter part of 2013. This Legal Alert summarizes...
When a client goes bankrupt, an unpaid supplier is often left with few remedies. Generally speaking, the unpaid supplier’s recovery is limited to their proportional share of what is left of the proceeds from the bankrupt’s assets after the debts of...
On January 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a debt collector violated the FDCPA by collecting a fee based on a percentage of the principal owed when the contract allowed a fee only for the actual cost of collection....
