In 2014, the Departments of State and Commerce implemented final rules that overhauled 11 United States Munitions List (USML) Categories. These changes have affected a wide range of industries.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security released their much-anticipated regulations governing trade with Cuba, and they were published in the Federal Register and became effective on January 16, 2015.
Should you choose federal litigation or arbitration? In arbitration, parties to a dispute agree to submit the dispute for a decision to a neutral third party who is not a public official. Advantages include limited discovery while disadvantages include narrower grounds for appeal.
On January 6, 2015, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Edith Ramirez delivered a speech discussing best practices for companies in the emerging market of the “Internet of Things,” which refers to the wireless interconnectivity of everyday devices, from home appliances to medical devices.
In a precedential ruling, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) sustained an opposition by McDonald’s to the mark MCSWEET for pickled gourmet vegetables on the grounds that it infringed on and diluted McDonald’s famous family of “MC” for formative marks.
Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development announced an enhanced Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy when it released a report entitled “Doing Business the Canadian Way: A Strategy to Advance Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada’s Extractive Sector Abroad.”
On December 30, 2014, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R), signed Public Law 414 into law, which excludes college athletes from the definition of “public employees” who are entitled to collectively bargain in Michigan.
Following up from the Executive Order 13685 which effectively banned US trade and investment with Crimea, the Department of the Treasury has just issued General License 5.
On December 15, 2014, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) published its controversial Final Rule on Representation-Case Procedures (the Rule).
In order to prevent employee theft, some employers — particularly in the retail arena — require their employees to undergo security screenings before leaving the employer’s facilities.
in a radical departure from settled National Labor Relations Board (the Board or NLRB) precedent, a sharply divided NLRB ruled in a 3-2 decision that a policy limiting the use of an employee’s work email to work-only purposes violated the National Labor Relations Act (the Act or NLRA).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued final regulations requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, and retail food establishments, and final regulations governing mandatory calorie declaration on food sold in vending machines.
The General Accounting Office (GAO) recently released a report critical of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) pesticide residue monitoring programs for food.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently affirmed a decision of the Administrative Review Board of the Department of Labor, which had determined that a company’s disclosure of the identity of an SEC whistleblower.