On 27 October 2020, the UK Takeover Panel (the Panel) published Public Consultation Paper 2020/1 (the PCP), which proposes significant changes to the UK Takeover Code (the Code) with regard to the offer timetable and the treatment of conditions to offers....
In Washington: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in a Thursday morning letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pressed the White House for a response to the Democrats' latest coronavirus relief package proposal.
Trade groups sue California to stop threatened species listing for Western Joshua Tree - Bullet Desert Sun – October 27 - Several trade groups and a high desert town sued in Fresno County Superior Court on October 21 over the California Fish and Game Commission’s vote to make the iconic Weste
Due to the increase of COVID-19 cases and related deaths in Michigan over the last four weeks, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) issued an October 29, 2020 Epidemic Order extending and revising its previous order issued on October 9, 2020....
As if the recent uptick in national COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were not enough to tax an already beleaguered health system, on October 28, 2020, three federal agencies issued a cybersecurity Joint Advisory warning of a credible threat of “increased and imminent cybercrime” targeting U.S.
On November 3, 2020, California voters will decide on Proposition 15, the citizen-initiated proposition that seeks to create a split-roll tax system in California.
CORCAMORE, LLC v. SFM, LLC - Before Reyna, Chen, and Hughes. On appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Whether a party has satisfied the requirements to bring a petition for trademark cancellation under 15 U.S.C.
China’s Communist Party Central Committee wrapped up its annual plenary session on Thursday. This year’s 5th Plenum is significant because it falls in the last year of the 13th Five Year Plan period of 2016-2020.
An FTI Journal exclusive conversation with Erica Richardson, LPD, managing director in Strategic Communications, on developments affecting the goals of the Business Roundtable's revised statement of purpose of a corporation....
