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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 12 Jan 2021
On January 7, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or Service) published a final rule providing that the scope of the prohibition of take under…
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Troutman Pepper | USA | 23 Dec 2020
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the actions of a debt collector are not necessarily imputed to a debt buyer. This holding reversed the…
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 2 Dec 2020
On Monday, the Supreme Court finally heard oral argument in Van Buren v. United States, a case that will determine once and for all the scope of the…
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Spencer Fane LLP | USA | 23 Nov 2020
On November 20, 2020, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals jumped headlong into the Chevron, and Auer deference realm. The issue: can a Clean Air Act…
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Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 19 Oct 2020
This summer, we discussed that the Supreme Court is reviewing whether an arbitration agreement’s clear delegation of the question of arbitrability to…
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Mayer Brown | USA | 24 Sep 2020
Ordinarily, a ratio of 25:1 would ring the death knell for a punitive damages award. But just as a 1:1 ratio is not always a safe harbor, a…
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 23 Sep 2020
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently addressed what’s been called the “queen of all threshold issues” in arbitration law: does a…
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Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 17 Sep 2020
Cyber criminals attack a company’s network and consumer class actions follow. Plaintiff’s counsel choose the initial forum, but the defendant may…
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Spencer Fane LLP | USA | 16 Sep 2020
In Kelley v. Boosalis (In re Petters Company, Inc.) and Kelley v. Kanios (In re Petters Company, Inc.), the…
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Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 11 Sep 2020
This week, we highlight Ninth Circuit decisions denying copyright protection to assertions of fact (even if those facts were made up), and deepening…