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Isolated genes no longer patentable: Supreme Court reverses Federal Circuit in Myriad case

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 13 2013

In a thinly worded unanimous decision in Assn. For Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. on June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court held that

Supreme Court upholds arbitrator's authority to interpret agreement to permit class proceedings

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2013

"The arbitrator's construction holds, however good, bad, or ugly." This was the succinct message delivered on June 10, 2013, by a unanimous U.S

Michigan court allows multistate tax compact election

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2013

On June 6, 2013, the Michigan Court of Claims became the second court in the country to hold that the Multistate Tax Compact (the Compact) is a

The way you credit me, no New York, you can't take that away from me

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2013

New York's highest court has ruled that the state violated the Constitution when it retroactively denied tax credits to businesses under the 2009

Supreme Court to decide removability of Parens Patriae actions under CAFA

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2013

On May 28, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Mississippi v. AU Optronics Corporation, No. 12-1036, to consider whether a parens

MTC three-factor election falls flat in Texas

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2013

A Texas administrative law judge ruled that a taxpayer was not entitled to make an alternative three-factor apportionment election under Article IV

California FTB takes Harley-Davidson for a ride: securitization subsidiaries are financial corporations with nexus in California

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2013

The California Superior Court ruled that certain special purpose entities (SPEs) owned by Harley-Davidson, Inc. had nexus in California. The taxpayer

Holder of deed need not be holder of note to foreclose, Georgia Supreme Court rules

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2013

The Georgia Supreme Court held this week that the holder of a security deed need not also hold the underlying note to exercise the power of sale in

Tax Court finds indirect prohibited transaction in IRA

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

In Peek v. Commissioner (May 9, 2013), the U.S. Tax Court ruled that two taxpayers had engaged in an indirect "prohibited transaction" with their

California Court of Appeal lends judicial support for declining term of possessory interests and for authoritativeness of assessors' handbooks

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

The Court of Appeal ruled that the County of Los Angeles illegally assessed the possessory interest of the lessee of a building owned by