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The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act was enacted on December 27, 2020 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.The CASE Act creates an administrative tribunal within the US Copyright Office......

The Florida Supreme Court ended 2020 with a bang!  The Supreme Court amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510 to adopt the federal summary judgment standard.  This change will affect different types of civil litigation in varying ways....

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, an omnibus spending bill that authorized additional funding and extended supplemental unemployment benefits created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act....

Vaccine approval and administration are the next steps in the fight against COVID-19. As with nearly everything about this pandemic, guidance and action plans vary by jurisdiction, and are constantly evolving....
By: Littler

The benefits of clear surface shading in a design patent were highlighted in a recent district circuit decision, which found that purported contour or tangent edge lines added to the drawings to illustrate a transition edge between rounded and flat surfaces were not proper lines to indicate surfa

The Italian Government repealed the tax, introduced in 2018, on money remittances outside EU executed through payment institutions....
By: Hogan Lovells

Shortly before the end of his tenure as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Chair Jay Clayton presided over the SEC as it considered and approved the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) proposed rule change modifying the NYSE’s rules in order to permit, as described below, primary

A recent decision of the New York Court of Appeals, Sutton v. Pilevsky held that federal bankruptcy law does not preempt state law tortious interference claims against non-debtors who participated in a scheme that caused a debtor—in this case a bankruptcy remote special purpose entity......

2020 has been a busy year in privacy law both domestically and around the globe. Some of the most striking developments included enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) expanding the CCPA......

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