Our Financial Services Group reviews the Maryland Secondary Market Stability Act, which overrides the Office of Financial Regulation’s requirement that passive trusts holding Maryland loans in residential mortgage-backed…
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/ Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
In the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS, states exempt PFAS products – except the states that don’t, defendants can remove PFAS…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law
Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al., No. 2023-2437 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Apr. 18, 2025). Opinion by Dyk, joined by Prost and Goldberg (sitting by designation). Recentive sued Fox for infringing four patents that claim…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
In a highly anticipated and welcome development, on April 22, 2025, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed into law the Maryland Secondary Market Stability Act of 2025 (emergency measures HB 1516 and its companion SB 1026) with an…
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/ Finance & Banking, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published the finalized amendments (Amendments) to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) that would impose additional restrictions on website and online…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Our Industrials & Manufacturing and Products Liability Groups break down how Georgia’s new law alters the tort landscape…
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/ Civil Procedure, Personal Injury, Products Liability
Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group discusses what plan sponsors and fiduciaries need to know about the Internal Revenue Service’s proposed changes for employees 50 or older who make additional elective…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
Eight years ago, on March 1, 2017, the New York Department of Financial Services enacted its landmark cybersecurity regulation covering financial services companies, 23 NYCRR Part 500, known as “Part 500.” Part 500 was the first…
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/ Finance & Banking, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and…
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/ Health
Welcome to the Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter, our review of decisions and trends in the intellectual property arena.
In this edition, we learn that written description is required for a preamble, labor or…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Eight state regulators have established a coalition called the Consortium of Privacy Regulators to collaborate on the implementation and enforcement of their privacy laws. According to announcements from the California Privacy…
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/ Administrative Law, Privacy
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has initiated a Section 232 investigation of imports of semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. According to the Federal Register notice…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team highlights the increasingly specific cybersecurity controls identified by regulators, explains why these enhanced cybersecurity controls have become the focus of regulators, and shares…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Yesterday, April 16, 2025, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), a bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce, published a “Notice of Request for Public Comments on Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, International Law & Trade
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Alkem Laboratories Ltd., No. 2023-1977 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) Apr. 8, 2025). Opinion by Murphy (sitting by designation), joined by Moore and Chen. Azurity owns a patent directed to non-sterile…
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