26 Jul, 2024 Crypto Goes on the Offensive By Tom Pardini In a fascinating move, Coinbase recently added Paul Clement to its Board and publicly stated that his addition will help the company push...
23 Jul, 2024 Rulemaking re Automated Decision-Making Tools Proving Difficult By Nate Garhart Coming out of their recent rulemaking meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency is not surprisingly finding the question of how...
18 Jul, 2024 One Judge’s Mission To Unearth Who Is Behind These Patent Trolls By Eugene Mar Judge Colm Connolly in the District of Delaware has been pressing many of the patent trolls (LLCs that only own 1 asset - the asserted...
08 Jul, 2024 Prop 65: The looming BPS warning deadline By Chris Rendall-Jackson On December 29, 2023, OEHHA listed bisphenol S (BPS) under Prop 65 as a chemical known to the State of California to cause female...
03 Jul, 2024 Does using patents as loan collateral still create standing issues? By Eugene Mar Traditionally, the Federal Circuit had been very strict that a plaintiff must own all the rights to a patent to have standing to bring a...
02 Jul, 2024 CalRecycle Publishes Updated Covered Material Categories List As Part of California’s EPR Law By Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On July 1, 2024, CalRecycle published an updated list of covered material categories as required by California’s extended producer...
01 Jul, 2024 Preliminary injunction issued regarding enforcement of Prop 65 warning requirement for titanium dioxide in cosmetic and personal care products By Chris Rendall-Jackson On June 12, 2024, in Personal Care Products Council v. Bonita (No. 23-1006), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...
25 Jun, 2024 Is corporate separateness at risk? By Eugene Mar At first, many people jumped to the conclusion that this upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case threatens corporate separateness by putting...
25 Jun, 2024 Taxation of Realized, but Undistributed, Gains or (What Moore Means) By Kalei Akiona The Wall Street Journal, following the Supreme Court's decision in Moore v. United States, claims that the five-justice majority opinion...
24 Jun, 2024 Fourth Circuit Affirms that Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction to Review EPA Grant of Petition Under TSCA to Test Fifty-Four PFAS By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On June 10, 2024, in Center for Environmental Health v. Regan (No. 23-1476), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that federal courts...
21 Jun, 2024 The IRS Is Targeting Partnership Transactions: Is Your Representative Ready? By Julie Treppa Earlier this week, Treasury and the IRS issued guidance to halt the use of partnership rules in the Internal Revenue Code to engage in...
20 Jun, 2024 Pesticides Found in Legal Cannabis Products By Jeff Hamilton If anyone had forgotten about the “Vitamin E Acetate” related deaths a few years ago, this should be a jarring reminder that California...