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During Shutdown, Commissioner Gottlieb Tries to Reassure Consumers – As the partial shutdown continues, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb tries to reassure the industry and consumers that the FDA

On December 27, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion that ruled against the Trump Administration in its plan to cut funding from the 340B Drug Pricing Program

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Sonner v. Schwabe N. Am., Inc. et al.,[1] resolves a split among district courts evaluating the standard that applies to false labeling claims

On January 8, 2019, in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the United States Supreme Court held that courts must enforce as written arbitration agreements that require the "gateway"

We did a search of the DDL Blog for "continuing violation" and found only one other reference and that was simply to note that the court rejected the theory ...

On January 3, 2019, following a jury's award of $145 million in damages to Wi-LAN, the Southern District of California granted Apple's motion for a conditional order of remittitur to a $10 million

The opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are creating for the labor market are gaining increasing attention in both policy circles and society at large.

Although "any person" except the owner can challenge a patent in an Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceeding, only those who satisfy the constitutional requirements ...

The New Times reported that "About 150 Jersey cows in the rolling terrain at Rivendale Farms in Bulger, some 25 miles west of Pittsburgh ...

This is the second of two posts; the first five selections were posted here.

The New Jersey Appellate Division has determined that the City of Hoboken cannot retroactively apply municipal land use ordinances to effectively revoke prior land use approvals.

Despite last minute efforts to address concerns of various groups who opposed the bill, Members of the 115th Congress ultimately failed to pass the American Vision ...

In this patent infringement action, the plaintiff, Whirlpool Properties ("Whirlpool") noticed several depositions of third-party witnesses near the discovery cut-off.

As most readers of this blog are aware, the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") and analogous state laws prohibit employers from discriminating against qualified employees (and applicants)

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held unanimously that when an arbitration delegates gateway issues of arbitrability to the arbitator to decide ...

Despite predictions of a slow-down in enforcement under the Trump administration—and indications that enforcement in some areas has decreased in the past year—2018 was yet again an active year for FCPA enforcement.

A California federal court granted Singapore-based hotel booking firm Agoda Company Pte. Ltd.'s ("Agoda") motion for summary judgment in a case involving alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act─which identifies four categories of inventions or discoveries that are eligible for patent protection─presents a number of challenges to companies working on innovations in the life sciences space.

Based on that distinction, the court remanded the matter to the NLRB for further consideration on that issue.

Worldwide

Many tax reform regulations, laws and bills came into effect in 2018 in countries all across the Americas region, with even more changes coming in 2019.