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Partner Daniel Deeb was quoted on the U.S. Supreme Court decision that district courts have the jurisdiction over challenges to rules defining “waters of the United States.”

On December 29, 2017, the California Court of Appeal issued a long-awaited decision confirming.

As was widely reported, Congress approved legislation late Monday, January 22, 2018 to provide continuing appropriations for federal agencies through February 8, 2018, ending the government shutdown that began Saturday.

A new administrative rule promulgated and adopted by the Attorney General for the state of New Jersey (the AG) will “regulate the receipt and acceptance by prescribers of anything of value from pharmaceutical manufacturers.”

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) will dramatically change the tax treatment of income from many partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations.

Partner Daniel Deeb was quoted on the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that challenges to the 2015 Clean Water Rule must be filed in federal district courts and not in federal appellate courts.

The arrival of a new year marks the beginning of the annual proxy season. And this year, shareholders can expect to see a lot more climate change disclosure in 2017 corporate financials.

Thanks to the Maryland General Assembly’s override of Governor Larry Hogan’s veto, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (the Act) will go into effect on February 11, 2018, unless its implementation date is extended by the legislators.

This year brought us very significant changes in patent jurisprudence from the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit affecting Chemical & Life Sciences patent practice.

Schiff Hardin represented an affiliate of Sterling American Property V L.P., a major real estate opportunity fund, in the sale of a multi-family portfolio located in Riverside County, Calif.

In a recent European Court of Justice Ruling, the court held that a test taker’s answers and an examiner’s comments with regard to those answers are personal data, while valuable proprietary test questions are not.

Late last week, the New Jersey federal court dismissed with prejudice a case where a customer challenged under the antitrust laws a car manufacturer’s requirement that he agree not to export a Jaguar Land Rover shortly after buying it.

Product liability defendants often seek to remove cases to federal court. That’s because federal jurisdiction provides federal pleading standards, robust expert discovery, efficiency through uniform procedural and evidentiary rules, and, often, more diverse jury pools.

Recently, the FDA announced that it does not intend to enforce certain provisions in four of the rules that implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. 

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a case that could fundamentally reshape the rules concerning collection of sales tax on out-of-state sales.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a proposed rule soliciting recommendations for new Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbors, modifications to existing safe harbors, and new OIG Special Fraud Alerts.

In 2017, the sports industry faced disruption and worked to adapt to its new realities, which spanned sponsorships, gambling, the Olympics, social movements, amateurism, financing, and more.

For patent practitioners, this year packed in a lot of activity.

In late December 2017, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the findings of a report titled “Potential Misclassifications Reported by Drug Manufacturers May Have Led to $1 Billion in Lost Medicaid Rebates.”

Partner Jane Montgomery was quoted on the result of the International Financial Stability Board’s Task Force’s December 2017 announcement that nearly 240 companies committed to include climate risk data in their financial disclosure reports.

Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Partner Joanne Faycurry has been named to DBusiness magazine’s 2018 list of Top Lawyers.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (December 2017) ushered in significant changes to the wealth transfer tax system.

Chicago businessman Brett Immel, represented by Schiff Hardin LLP, has been acquitted after a one-week federal jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.