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International students and recent graduates across the county are facing the possibility of the government revoking their F-1 Student status or J-1 Exchange Visitor status, exposing them to the possibility of deportation –...more
On April 11, the CFPB stated in a court filing that it plans to revoke its advisory opinion on medical debt collection from October 1, 2024. The filing was a motion to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and...more
In In re Estate of Wright, decedent’s son appealed an order finding that his mother died intestate. No. 13-23-00043-CV, 2024 Tex. App. LEXIS 8078 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi November 21, 2024, no pet. history)....more
In recent weeks the Department of State (DOS) has taken steps to revoke visas and terminate the status of international students who have criminal infractions and/or who have engaged in activism. In light of this intense...more
Readers may recall that in February 2024, the FCC adopted a Report and Order imposing a number of new TCPA caller and texter compliance obligations in connection with consumer revocation requests, which are applicable to...more
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have indicated they will focus with more scrutiny on social media vetting for student and exchange visitor applicants. These...more
On April 7, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a limited waiver delaying by an additional year the effective date of certain parts of the new Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) rule. ...more
A reminder that on April 11, 2025, new rules go into effect for revocation of consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Action (TCPA). On April 7, 2025, the FCC issued an Order which partially delays enforcement of one...more
On April 7, 2025, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) released an order announcing a one-year delay of a new implementing rule for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) related to consumers’...more
On April 7, 2025, with just four days to spare, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed the effective date of part of its impending rule regarding how companies respond to opt-out requests from individuals to a...more
Barring a last-minute reprieve, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new rules regarding how consumers can revoke their consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) will go into effect on April 11, 2025...more
On March 26, the CFPB filed a status report and joint motion to stay proceedings in a case challenging its Buy Now, Pay Later interpretive rule indicating that the Bureau intends to revoke the rule. As previously covered by...more
Takeaways - - Expired patents may be eligible for reexamination. - Owner’s options during reexamination of an expired patent are severely limited. Similar to reexamination practice, which has long allowed reexamination...more
Employers would have to give all employees in New York time to review and revoke severance agreements under a bill that just passed the state Senate on March 4. The No Severance Ultimatums Act now moves to the Assembly, and...more
On February 5, 2025, a bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeking to codify the recently revoked Executive Order 11246....more
President Trump has taken the first steps toward fulfilling his promise to reverse the Biden administration’s approach to digital assets by issuing an executive order that establishes a framework for fostering the growth of...more
Welcome to Lost in Translation: Blunders in International Estate Planning; in this blog series, I will delve into the rarified world of international estate planning, shedding light on possible pitfalls and slip-ups. Blunder...more
Nearly two years in, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) continues to reshape the patent litigation landscape in Europe by providing swift, cross-border resolutions and an innovative approach to patent enforcement and revocation....more
On January 16, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an order banning FD&C Red No.3 in food and ingested drugs.1 Food and ingested drug manufacturers who use Red No. 3 have until January 15, 2027, or January 18,...more
On January 20, 2025, President Trump revoked Executive Order (EO) 14110—Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, issued on October 30, 2023. EO 14110 was promulgated as a coordinated...more
Late in the day on January 23, 2025, the Office of Federal Compliance Programs (OFCCP) sent out its first official agency communication since President Trump’s historic Executive Order “Ending Illegal Discrimination and...more
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) aims to provide expeditious decisions for its litigants. That means that there is a higher bar for obtaining extensions of time. As exemplified in BMW v. ITCiCo, the UPC’s reluctance to grant...more
Less than two months after CVC made the surprising move to revoke two of its seminal European CRISPR patents, Sigma-Aldrich has done it too. While the facts that led to Sigma’s “self” revocation may be different than CVC’s,...more
The U.S. Supreme Court held in Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, No. 23-583 (Dec. 10, 2024), that one cannot appeal a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revocation of an approved visa petition in federal court because such...more
The Bank of England has published a consultation paper on the proposed revocation of the U.K. technical standards on simplified obligations. The U.K. retained the EU framework for determining the level of information required...more