During its first month in session, Congress has proposed several pieces of legislation designed to reverse the dramatic shift in power over the last 50 years from Congress to the Executive. The Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 is one remarkable...
On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” (the “Executive Order”). Among other provisions, the Executive Order institutes a 90-day ban on...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a report entitled Alternative Testing Strategies in Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials: Current State of Knowledge and Research Needs to Advance Their Use....
Yet another cautionary tale out of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) about referrals. Yet again, the Bureau took action against a mortgage lender, this time Prospect Mortgage LLC, which happens to be a major mortgage lender, for...
On December 14, 2016, the California Supreme Court denied review and ordered depublished the Sixth District Court of Appeal’s opinion in Bay Area Clean Environment, Inc. v. Santa Clara County, which was previously filed on August 31, 2016 and...
Not all prophylactics are created equal. From permanent and temporary implants to the pill, there are plenty of options for female birth control out there, and unfortunately some are safer than others.
If you're in business, you better be in the data security business. Even if you don't transact all of your business online, and even if you don't even have a website, if you're processing payments electronically, that data could be at risk.
Judge Neil Gorsuch got it wrong. I’m sure of it. His opinion affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of an unlawful monopolization case brought by our client, the former owners of WordPerfect (anyone remember WordPerfect?), against Microsoft...
After a lengthy consultation, in December 2016 the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) finally published its much anticipated new guidance on pricing practices, entitled The Guidance for Traders on Pricing Practices (CTSI Guidance). The CTSI...
Tilson Home Corp. v. Zepeda, No. 14-16-00075-CV, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 12022 (Tex. App. Nov. 8, 2016) - The Court of Appeals of Texas has held that an arbitrator—not a trial court—must determine whether a prerequisite to the obligation to arbitrate...
