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In a good outcome for employers, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that a standalone non-compete agreement can be assigned to an asset purchaser without the employee’s consent.

Late Thursday night, the Senate voted 63-30 to approve a bipartisan GMO disclosure bill hammered out earlier by Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). 

For the first time, Arent Fox LLP is making its annual Diversity Scholarship available to second-year law students, while raising the award from $15,000 to $20,000.

In a surprising and promising development, the Senate Finance Committee released a Majority Staff Report on June 30, 2016 that gives the health care industry some hope that Congress may finally address some of the serious concerns with the implementation and enforcement of the Stark law.

In St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company v. Tessera, Inc., the federal court held that a lawsuit against an insured alleging a breach of a license agreement did not constitute a violation of an intellectual property right.

Mobile advertising company InMobi, whose advertising network reaches more than one billion devices worldwide through thousands of apps, has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it “deceptively tracked” the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers without their knowledge

Arent Fox LLP Sports practice leader Richard L. Brand and Corporate & Securities practice leader Steven A. Cohen were named Power Players in the SportsBusiness Journal’s ranking of the top legal influencers in the sports industry.

The first NOV involving register receipts was issued by the Center for Environmental Health against a restaurant in Lake Forest . California retailers appear to have two options: post warning signs in the store or switch to electronic receipts or BPA-free paper.

Arent Fox LLP announced today that it advised Domino’s Pizza Group plc in the acquisition of a significant minority interest in the master franchises that operate the international pizza brand in Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

The size - $14.7 billion – and speed of the Volkswagen emissions scandal settlement announced this week sent waves through the automotive industry, with the environmental case edging out recent consumer harm cases as the largest-ever consumer automotive settlement.

Health Care partner Linda Baumann was quoted extensively in Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report in an article on the potential repeal and overhaul of the Stark Law.

On June 28, Real Estate partner Tim Tosta spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle on the latest debate surrounding a tract of former industrial land in the Bay Area.

Last week, bipartisan legislation was introduced in the US Senate and the House of Representatives to amend the Controlled Substances Act and ease federal obstacles for medical researchers to conduct clinical studies on the medical benefits of marijuana.

Telemedicine has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past decade, moving beyond teleradiology to include a broad range of specialties such as neurology, infectious diseases, and psychiatry.

Data breaches continue to complicate the interpretation and understanding of commercial insurance policies. But even as courts confront thorny questions presented by cyber security policies, they continue to rely on long-standing principles of insurance and contract law.

In the newly implemented Regulation Crowdfunding rules, the SEC identified intermediaries as the gatekeepers through which all investments must pass.

On June 16, 2016, the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) became the 31st state agency to sign a Partnership Agreement with the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) regarding the misclassification of independent contractors.

Consumer advocate groups—Public Knowledge, Consumer Watchdog, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Action, TURN-The Utility Reform Network and Consumer Federation of America—recently filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and a petition with the Federal Communications Commission agai

Manufacturers were reminded recently why resale price maintenance policies can be risky.

On May 4, 2016, Quebec’s government published proposed regulations which would require businesses using signage bearing trademarks in languages other than French to incorporate a “sufficient presence of French” on their signs.

An interesting case involving the patentability of database models came out of the Federal Circuit in Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp. where the Court held that two patents covering a new type of database model were not invalid.

On Monday, the US Supreme Court ordered the Ninth Circuit to reconsider whether Service Advisors are exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

In a highly anticipated decision, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Universal Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar that threw out existing law related to the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act.