4/21/2025 5:42:28 PM California Legislation Banning Wide Range of PFAS-Containing Products (SB 682) Moves Forward in Senate Committees By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman The California Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee recently passed, as amended, SB 682, and referred the bill to the Senate...
4/14/2025 9:12:53 PM Industrial Company Files Action Challenging EPA Disclosure of Confidential Business Information Submitted to EPA During Enforcement Action Proceedings By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On April 2, 2025, Inhance Technologies LLC initiated an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—Inhance...
4/8/2025 6:07:22 PM CalRecycle publishes a final material characterization study, triggering the deadline to comply with SB 343 By Chris Rendall-Jackson On April 4, CalRecycle published its final material characterization study (Study) pursuant to SB 343. Under SB 343, use of the chasing...
3/26/2025 6:46:21 PM Injunctive Relief Is Not Yet a Viable Remedy for Copyright Infringement Claims Involving GenAI By Su Li Since a February 11, 2025 decision by Judge Stephanos Bibas finding in favor of Plaintiff Thomson Reuters on copyright infringement...
3/18/2025 6:31:51 PM EPA Signals Potential Change of Position Regarding Key 2024 PFAS Rulemakings By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman In February 2025, newly installed EPA leadership sought and obtained orders from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals staying pending legal...
3/18/2025 6:26:15 PM Comment Period Closing in 30 Days (April 16) on Federal PFOA/PFOS Risk Assessment for Sewage Sludge Applied to Agricultural Land as Fertilizer By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman Interested parties—including businesses raising crops or animals on agricultural and ranch lands potentially impacted by PFAS in...
3/10/2025 9:44:38 PM Machine Unlearning – A Potential Option for Remedy? By Su Li Machine unlearning (MU) is a concept that is likely more interesting to lawyers than to data scientists, as the latter typically focus on...
3/6/2025 12:29:37 AM EDTX's Resurgence as the Top Patent Hot Spot By Su Li Judge Mazzant’s case assignment order on March 3, 2025, brought the topic of the Eastern District of Texas (“EDTX”) being the busiest...
2/14/2025 6:48:11 PM Ruling Against Fair Use Defense for AI Training Seems To Be Narrow, but Is It? By Nate Garhart In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge...
2/4/2025 4:09:13 AM Judges Wipe Out Business Interruption Policyholders’ First (And Only) COVID Win By Jeremy Lawrence Out of the 1,199 (and counting) trial court rulings addressing Covid business interruption lawsuits, only one of them resulted in a...
2/3/2025 7:13:24 PM Is Fair Use Threatening to Swallow Computer Copyright Protection? By Eugene Mar This case tested the contours of the landmark Google v. Oracle computer software code fair use decision. Astronics, a military aerospace...
1/30/2025 6:26:42 PM Copyright Office Report Further Clarifies Human Authorship Requirement for Copyrightability of AI-Generated Works By Nate Garhart In a long-anticipated report from the U.S. Copyright Office providing guidance on the copyrightability of works created by and/or with...