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Deli’s Party Platters Found Subject to Sales Tax Despite Customer Assembly Required

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In the world of sales tax, the devil is often in the details. A recent decision from the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal (“Tribunal”) serves as an example of how seemingly insignificant details can determine whether a...more

Fisher Phillips

Agency Judges’ Power at Risk Again: Family Farm Fights Back After DOL Demands $500K for Alleged H-2A Program Violations

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A federal appeals court will soon decide whether the Department of Labor (DOL) may impose financial penalties on employers for alleged violations of the H-2A temporary visa program. While a lower court rejected a family-owned...more

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Arizona Court of Appeals “Updates the Handbook” on Judicial Review of Agency Action

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When operating a business, it is nearly impossible not to have to interact with state or other local government agencies. Decisions regarding permits, licenses, government contracts, workforce compliance, environmental...more

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Texas District Court Rules FWS Must Consider the Cost of Protecting Threatened Species

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On March 29, 2025, a Texas District Court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should have considered economic costs when crafting protections for the lesser-prairie chicken, a threatened species, under Section...more

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Key OSHRC Rulings Explained: Secretary of Labor v. Trinity Solar LLC

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Welcome to “Key OSHRC Rulings Explained,” a new series in Conn Maciel Carey LLP’s OSHA Defense Report blog, designed to explore significant case summaries of Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) decisions....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Federal Court Strikes Down LDT Final Rule

On March 31, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule under which FDA would have started regulating most laboratory-developed tests...more

Bracewell LLP

USPTO Memorandum Bifurcating PTAB Institution Process Signals Shift Toward Increased Discretionary Denials in IPR and PGR

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New Interim Process for Patent Trial and Appeal Board Workload Management - The USPTO has fundamentally altered the PTAB institution decision framework through a March 26, 2025, memorandum from Acting Director Coke Morgan...more

Mayer Brown

Brasília em Pauta – Edição Nº 193

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O “Brasília em Pauta” é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) e Tribunal de...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

United States Supreme Court Upholds Biden Administration’s Regulation of Ghost Guns

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In November 2023 we discussed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to strike down a Biden-era firearm regulation concerning “ghost guns,” concluding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)...more

Foley Hoag LLP

PTAB Changes Procedure for Determining Discretionary Denials

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Key Takeaways: - The Director, in consultation with at least three APJs, will now decide the discretionary denial question, rather than having the merits panel decide the issue. - Discretionary denial will have separate...more

McDermott Will & Emery

No APA Review of Commission Refusal to Issue Sua Sponte Show Cause Order

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal challenging a US International Trade Commission decision that upheld an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) order, ruling that such an order was within the...more

McAfee & Taft

Gavel to Gavel: Warrants and the workplace

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Law enforcement agents are not all-powerful in the United States; their power is restricted by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although primetime police dramas often paper over the details, every...more

Knobbe Martens

Inaction Can Lead To Argument Forfeiture on Appeal

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ALIVECOR, INC. v. APPLE INC. Before Hughes, Linn, and Stark. Appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board - A party in a PTAB proceeding forfeits the ability to challenge an opposing party’s discovery obligation violation...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Federal Circuit Opens the Door to Additional Domestic Industry Investment: “Ordinary Importer” No Longer

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In its recent decision in Lashify, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit opened the door for patent owners to include expanded categories of domestic investment to satisfy the economic prong of the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Major Changes at the NLRB: A New Acting General Counsel, the Rescission of Biden-Era General Counsel Memoranda, and the...

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To say that the past fifty days have been a period of significant changes at the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) is surely an understatement....more

Frost Brown Todd

Sick of ALJs? The New Right to Federal Court During Agency Prosecutions

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Practitioners and scholars all agree that last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overhauled the administrative state. And no, not simply by overturning Chevron, which was undoubtably the most significant decision of the Supreme...more

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Frequently Asked Questions for Employers About OSHA (Updated for 2025)

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Even the most experienced employers are sure to have questions from time to time about the nation’s workplace safety agency – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That’s where we come in. The Fisher...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New Federal Circuit Ruling Opens the ITC to Many More IP Owners

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In a recent ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upended years of settled law and ruled that sales and marketing expenses, by themselves, can be the basis for a finding of domestic industry in an...more

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FDIC Reverses Position on the Constitutionality of In-House Administrative Law Judges

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After several Supreme Court decisions and Executive Orders upended many of the norms governing the relationship between governmental agencies and the constitutional branches, a recent decision by the Federal Deposit Insurance...more

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Back to Backlog? Polsinelli Shareholders Share Insight on how Terminations of DAB Attorneys and Potential Removal of...

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As the new administration continues its efforts to contract and streamline the federal government, recent developments at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) hint at...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Has There Been A Sea Change in Eligible Domestic Industries at the ITC That Will Last?

For decades, the ITC’s jurisdictional requirement – known as the domestic industry requirement – effectively shut out innovators from availing themselves of the powerful remedies of the forum, in the form of an exclusion...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

District court dismisses bank’s constitutional challenge to FDIC administrative proceedings

On March 3, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas dismissed a constitutional challenge to enforcement proceedings by the FDIC, ruling the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the plaintiff’s claims. As...more

Holland & Knight LLP

DOJ Forsakes Defending the ALJ Process Against Article II Challenges

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On Feb. 18, 2025, in a case seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Notice of Change in Position indicating that the DOJ will no longer defend in litigation "the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FDIC declines to defend administrative law judges in bank litigation, bank responds

On February 24, the FDIC informed the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas that it would no longer defend its use of administrative law judges (ALJs). As previously covered by InfoBytes, DOJ declared the multiple...more

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New Challenges Loom for OSHA and OSHRC Amid Quorum Issues, Potential ALJ Removals, and Recent Supreme Court Jurisprudence

“The Times They Are a-Changin’” isn’t just a Bob Dylan song title—it is also a fairly accurate description of what has been happening in the arena of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the...more

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