On April 21, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a notice regarding its policy to require all US grant recipients to certify that:
1. They do not, and will not during the term of receiving funds from the NIH,…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The UK Procurement Act 2023 (the Procurement Act) came into force on 24 February 2025. It introduced significant changes to the UK public procurement landscape including a new regime for suppliers to be excluded from a…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
A recent federal court decision has the potential to tip the balance in an ongoing series of skirmishes over state regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
In McKee Foods Corp. v. BFP Inc. d/b/a/ Thrifty Med Plus…
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/ Administrative Law, Conflict of Laws, Health, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
Last week, a sensitive internal government document was leaked to the public: the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) passback to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laying out proposed funding…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Health
On April 14, 2025, a federal jury convicted an executive in a wage-fixing conspiracy under the Sherman Act. This marks the first time, after many tries, that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has secured a conviction in a…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Criminal Law, Labor & Employment Law
The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) announced that it has shortened the time between the issue notification and the issue date for patents. Historically, the time between these two events averaged about three weeks. Seeking…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, finding that the appellant lacked standing because it failed to allege any actual and particularized injury. Michael J…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Case: ERC Today LLC et al. v. John McInelly et al., No. 2:24-cv-03178 (D. Ariz.)
In an April 2025 order, the US District Court for the District of Arizona denied a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by two tax…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Taxation
On April 14, 2025, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a draft update to the NIST Privacy Framework 1.1. The updates are meant to enhance organizations’ data governance and risk management and…
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/ Business Organizations, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling that patents applying established machine learning methods to new data are not patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. §101. Recentive Analytics, Inc. v…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board unpatentability determination, finding that a skilled artisan would have found the term “sterile” in a UK publication to mean the same as the…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Health
Legislators in Sacramento, California, are mulling over one of the most (if not the most) troubling state and local tax bills of the past decade.
Senate Bill (SB) 799, introduced earlier this year and recently amended, would…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
Originally published in February 2025, this updated report provides new material on physician practice management (PPM) arrangements, reference-based pricing arrangements, minimum essential coverage (MEC) and MEC+ plans, and…
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/ Business Organizations, Health, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 sets out two major reforms making it much easier for UK authorities to prosecute corporate wrongdoing:
- it substantially increases the circumstances in which a company…
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/ Business Organizations, Criminal Law
