30 Apr, 2024 Is 2024 the Year for a Federal Privacy Bill? By Mitzi Hill Much hype has emerged in the legal press in recent weeks regarding the American Privacy Rights Act, a draft bill currently working its...
29 Apr, 2024 Grand Jury Finds Multiple Failures in School Where Student Shot His Teacher By Debbie Ausburn More than a year ago, a six-year-old in Virginia took a gun to school and shot his teacher. The teacher survived, and the court system...
25 Apr, 2024 Changes to Minimum Salary for Employees Exempt from Overtime By Taylor English The Department of Labor recently finalized changes to rules regarding the minimum salary that must be paid to employees in order to be...
25 Apr, 2024 FTC Order Likely to Prohibit Healthcare Tech Company From Using Customer Data for Machine Learning By Mitzi Hill The Federal Trade Commission has been on a mission to regulate healthcare privacy in various ways. Now, we have signs that it is also...
24 Apr, 2024 Main Text of the FTC's New Rule Banning Restrictive Covenants Quoted Here By Michael Cicero Below is the final text of 16 C.F.R. § 910.2, as it will be published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Federal Register. Such...
24 Apr, 2024 Legal Update: New DOL Overtime Rule to Expand Eligibility Starting July 2024 By Taylor English More Employees May Soon Be Overtime Eligible It was a busy day in Washington, D.C. Hours before the FTC voted to ban non-compete...
24 Apr, 2024 Legal Alert: Understanding the FTC’s New Rule on Non-Compete Agreements By Taylor English In a landmark decision, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted (3-2) to adopt a Final Rule that significantly alters the landscape of...
24 Apr, 2024 When Can the Government be Sued - Under the "Sovereign Immunity Doctrine"? By Jeffrey Nix Most everyone has heard of the “sovereign immunity doctrine” or SID. Simply put, SID means no person or entity can sue the government...
23 Apr, 2024 Edwin Land's Patents for Instant Photography and the Polaroid Camera By Taylor English In my last post, we looked at George Eastman's 1885 patent for the Kodak camera, the first portable, easy-to-use camera that brought...
23 Apr, 2024 Payment Platform Breach Could Cost United More than $1B By Mitzi Hill A healthcare payment processing platform owned by United Healthcare suffered a crippling attack in February that left many small...
22 Apr, 2024 The Future of Virtual Care: Legal Considerations for AI-Powered Telemedicine By Mike Ruggio While the use of telemedicine in the United States has stabilized since the pandemic, a report by the Assistant Secretary for Planning...
22 Apr, 2024 Law360 Article Published on the Duty of Candor Featured in USPTO's AI Ethics Guidance By Michael Cicero I am pleased to share my Law360 article, covering the duty of candor and good faith featured in Guidance on Use of Artificial...