It is always nice to have high-powered friends.
D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Alexander S. Birkhold, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel
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VW’s new ad campaign acknowledges its darker days yet evokes hope with a new day emerging for an all-electric future.
Arent Fox’s Jason Rotstein published an article in the Kluwer Arbitration Blog on the enforcement bar is becoming more specialized.
The US Copyright Office recently considered a federal right of publicity law which, if enacted, would help to create a rule that can be applied more uniformly to alleged infringements.
Decision is a Win for Trademark Licensees
The Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), issued a final rule that added five recently developed or developing technologies that are essential to the national security of the United States to the Export Administration Regulations’ (EAR) Commerce Control List (CCL).
Arent Fox’s Government Relations practice hosted a webinar focusing on America’s infrastructure crisis that featured special guest Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and experts from the American Society of Civil Engineers and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Massachusetts Determination of Need Program Releases Proposed Guidelines for New Long-Term Care Beds
The Determination of Need (DoN) Program of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (Department) recently signaled its intention to end a decades-long moratorium on new nursing home beds in the Commonwealth with the release of proposed DoN guidelines for approval of new long-term care beds.
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019, the DC City Council passed Mayor Bowser’s $15.5 billion FY2020 budget with a second unanimous vote on both the FY20 Local Budget Act and the FY20 Federal Portion Budget Request Act.
Fashion companies are struggling with a new paradigm. Storefront traffic is down. Real estate costs are up. And consumers are foregoing malls to shop online. Fashion & Retail Practice Leader Anthony Lupo and Kimco Realty CEO Conor Flynn discuss the future of retail in this video interview.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed a new bill into law that will require all retail stores to stop providing plastic bags to customers at check-out. This is part of the growing movement for consumers to use reusable bags when shopping.
Today, the US Supreme Court settled a hotly debated issue under Title VII: Is the statute’s charge-filing requirement jurisdictional? The answer, according to the unanimous Court, is no.
VW’s new ad campaign acknowledges its darker days yet evokes hope with a new day emerging for an all-electric future.
In response to the increasing numbers of illegal border crossers, primarily from the Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, crossing into the US along the US – Mexico border, President Trump has previously indicated he would “shut the border.”
Mexico recently became the No. 1 trading partner with the U.S., and a significant percentage of that trade is completed by auto companies.
D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Alexander S. Birkhold, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel
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The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it will renew efforts to investigate and police companies that use misleading advertising to sell legitimate products and services.
Chicago has a long list of things to be proud of, but the current state of the city’s combined sewer system infrastructure is not at the top of that list.
The FTC recently filed claims against Douglas Monahan for operating four crowdfunding schemes in which consumers were told their contributions were going towards the development of high-tech backpacks and bags.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is currently drafting the implementing regulations for the FIRRMA which was enacted this past August and represents the most sweeping set of changes to the processes and jurisdiction of CFIUS in its 44-year history.
In recent months, businesses that use disposable product packaging have seen an increase in Proposition 65 Notices of Violation for the commonly used chemical DEHP.
Arent Fox Los Angeles Managing Partner Aaron H. Jacoby was recently named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2019 LA500 list, which recognizes “the most influential people in LA.”
On May 21, 2019, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a Federal Register notice requesting comments on the proposed exclusion process for List 3 of the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports.
D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Alexander S. Birkhold, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel
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