ARGUMENT ANALYSIS By Ronald Mann on Apr 16, 2024 at 10:19 am As securities cases go, Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners is a simple one. The case involves Rule 10b-5 of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among other things, that rule creates a private cause of action whenever a company omits material facts in…
For patent litigation aficionados of a certain bent, it can be thrilling when it turns out that a case you are handling, or are interested in, gets assigned to a circuit court judge sitting by designation. I won’t venture a guess as to how many others share that feeling, but I can testify that the…
TORONTO – April 16, 2024 – Top Hat, the leader in student engagement solutions for higher education, is delighted to announce the University of Oklahoma has signed an enterprise licensing agreement to offer the Top Hat platform at no cost to its students. The agreement replaces the previous student pay model and is expected to…
Register Here On Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 12:00 pacific time, Harris Sliwoski managing partner Vince Sliwoski (Portland), Harris Sliwoski partner Griffen Thorne (Los Angeles), and Andy Shelley of CannXperts will present a free webinar entitled “How to Buy or Sell a Cannabis Business.” Drawing on their extensive experience from representing businesses and entrepreneurs through…
Developments in offices, AI, and operational real estate are driving expectations for a rebound in commercial real estate. A sense of optimism pervaded the air at Goodwin and Columbia University’s annual Real Estate Capital Markets (RECM) conference on March 27. Attendees discussed a wide array of real estate trends, including investment opportunities in offices, advancements…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Apr 16, 2024 at 9:41 am The court expects to issue one or more opinions this morning in argued cases from the current term. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in Fischer v. U.S. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary,…
* Supreme Court authorizes Idaho’s anti-trans care law with Justice Gorsuch writing that the decision might abuse the standard notion of the Court’s shadow docket power, but all the justices who created those precedents are dead now and we have a supermajority so YOLO (you’d be shocked at how lightly paraphrased that is too). [Law360]…
The partnerships, between the University of Washington and the University of Tsukuba and between Carnegie Mellon University and Keio University, were announced during prime minister Kishida’s state visit to Washington D.C. on April 9. “Today’s announcement will build on president Biden and prime minister Kishida’s commitment to advance US-Japan science and technology cooperation to develop…
A common point of confusion among law enforcement and the public is about the use of unlabeled pill bottles. Is it legal to possess prescription medicine in a container other than the original bottle with the prescription affixed? Does discovering an unlabeled pill bottle justify seizing and searching it to see if it contains contraband?…
16 April 2024 Steptoe LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Litigation On April 9, the DC Circuit upheld the EPA’s 2022 decision to waive federal preemption with respect to two California regulations under the Clean Air Act. The regulations at issue were (i)…