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First District of Texas Court of Appeals reverses trial court refusal to enforce two-year non-compete

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 8 2009

The Texas Court of Appeals for the First District reversed and remanded a Harris County (Houston) trial court’s decision refusing to enforce a non-compete provision in a case involving insurance brokers and agents

The biggest scare of all under the HITECH Act

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2009

What happens if the offices of a covered entity are broken into and unsecured protected health information (PHI) of more than 500 individuals is stolen?

Managing the risk of business associates

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2009

The HITECH Act, a portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), substantially broadens the government's enforcement power and increases penalties for privacy and security breaches under HIPAA

Eleventh Circuit affirms sanctions against plaintiffs' firm for solicitation

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2009

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court's entry of sanctions against the Shavitz Law Group, one of the leading plaintiff-side FLSA firms in Florida

The debate in Massachusetts over non-compete laws

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 23 2009

In January, Massachusetts State Representative William Brownsberger filed a bill which would seek to void any contract that restricts an employee’s ability to search for and obtain another position with a different employer

U.S. Court of Appeals refuses to block federal contractor E-Verify rule

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2009

On September 9, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied a motion by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ("the Chamber") for an injunction to halt implementation of a rule requiring federal contractors to use E-Verify

Component part manufacturer asbestos liability

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2009

The plaintiff's bar continues to look for fresh targets in the asbestos litigation, utilizing increasingly creative theories of liability, as the original targets of plaintiffs' lawsuits have been largely forced into bankruptcy

Ninth Circuit lets right of publicityparody case go to the trier of fact

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 15 2009

Celebrity Paris Hilton, whom the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has styled as "famous for being famous," sued Hallmark Cards for what Hallmark contended was social commentary on Paris' television show "The Simple Life."

Good news for Microsoft

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 22 2009

Recently, I reported on a lawsuit, in which U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that barred Microsoft from selling recent versions of its Word software, because the software violates a patent for processing XML, a markup language that allows users to customize the underlying format of text documents

Health care delivery system reform provisions in the Baucus bill

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 18 2009

In addition to the many hotly contested insurance and access-related provisions in the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009, the Chairman's Mark from Senator Baucus on behalf of the Senate Committee on Finance, released Wednesday, there is in the bill a section that addresses in a substantive way reform of the health care delivery system with a focus on quality