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Continuing reductions in environmental regulations across the power industry may seem like a good time for the C-suite to direct energy and attention towards other key priorities, but there is another force steadily working to tug reform back over the line — highly organized and increasingly strateg

In a recent opinion, United States Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn of the Southern District of New York held that Bankruptcy Courts may enter final default judgments against non-US defendants who fail to respond to a properly served summons and complaint.

Just when you thought you were helping the environment.

President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) to modernize the CFIUS review process to address 21st century national security concerns today. Congress enacted FIRRMA as Title XVII of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, HR 5515.

Administrative deference is a fundamental tenet of environmental law. A recent decision in Los Angeles Waterkeeper v. Pruitt, however, provides an important reminder that agency deference is bound by the four corners of the underlying statute.

The US Administration announced that it would be imposing sanctions on the Russian Government under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) over the use of a “Novichok” nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal.

International Trade Associate Leah Scarpelli will speak on Section 301 tariffs during a webinar for Plumbers Manufacturers International on August 9 at 11:00am ET.

On July 9, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2770 into law, which seeks to protect victims of sexual harassment who complain to their employers from defamation claims by the alleged harasser.

The President issued an Executive Order on August 6, 2018, “Reimposing Certain Sanctions With Respect to Iran” (the New Iran EO), which re-imposes relevant provisions of five Iran sanctions EOs (EOs 13574, 13590, 13622, and 13645).

Samsung is looking toward the future.

The Trump Administration rolled out its anticipated rules on fuel efficiency and emissions standards for model years 2021-2026 last week.

Ever since the US Supreme Court issued its decision striking down the federal ban on state sponsored sports betting in the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act this spring, there has been much discussion and speculation on what the decision means for the fantasy sports industry.

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer issued a statement on August 2, 2018, advising that President Trump has directed him to consider raising the previously proposed 10% additional duty to be applied to $200 billion worth of Chinese goods (referred to as the List 3 products) to 25%.

About nine months ago, the en banc Federal Circuit decided in Aqua Products v. Matal that the America Invents Act and related regulatory landscape place the burden in an inter partes review on the non-movant petitioner to disprove patentability of a patent owner’s proposed motion to amend.

Partner Sarah Fitts was quoted on the anticipated legal battle likely to follow the Trump Administration’s announced plan to roll back greenhouse gas (GHG) vehicle emissions standards and prevent states, California in particular, from setting their own requirements on GHG regulations.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its “Proposed Changes to Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs” for calendar year 2019 (the Proposed Rule).

Monthly Wrap: News, insights & analysis from Arent Fox’s International Arbitration team.

The Ninth Circuit held that a bankruptcy court may not designate claims (i.e. disqualify claims for plan voting purposes) for bad faith under 11 USC § 1126(e)

The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred to as the “GDPR,” has been in force for only two months now, but it appears to have already claimed a casualty.

On July 24, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied the State of Maryland’s petition for an en banc rehearing of the Fourth Circuit’s April 13, 2018 decision in the matter of Association of Accessible Medicines v. Frosh.

Arent Fox Land Use leader Tim Tosta was recently quoted in the GlobeSt.com article, “Is Beefed-Up Security Counter Or Compulsory?”

Schiff Hardin advised Wintrust Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WTFC) on the successful completion of its acquisition of Chicago Shore Corporation, the parent company of Delaware Place Bank.

Intellectual Property Practice Group Co-Leaders Imron Aly and Sailesh Patel were featured in Leading Lawyers Magazine—2018 Business Edition for their successful track record in challenging giant pharmaceutical companies to bring generic drugs to the marketplace.

Schiff Hardin LLP is proud to announce that for the seventh year in a row, the firm has been named to Working Mother magazine’s “Best Law Firms for Women” list. The firm is one of just 60 law firms being recognized for best practices in retaining and promoting women lawyers.

Uber puts self-driving trucks in reverse.