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Legal Alert/Article April 26, 2013, previously published on April 23, 2013 In a decision of 15 April 2013, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf increased the cartel fines on liquefied gas suppliers to a total of EUR 244 million or to up to 85% more than what has been previously imposed by the German competition authority in its administrative decision. In...
| | ICANN Appoints a Second URS Provider
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Legal Alert/Article April 25, 2013, previously published on April 22, 2013 The Uniform Rapid Suspension system (URS) is a (yet to be implemented) rights protection mechanism established by ICANN that facilitates the rapid suspension of domain names in clear-cut cases of trademark infringement within the Internet's new gTLDs. It is intended to complement the existing...
| | Federal Court Dismisses Class Action Complaint Based on NAD Decision
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Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2013, previously published on April 19, 2013 On February 11, 2013 a federal district court in New Jersey dismissed a putative class action false advertising complaint, holding that the complaint's core allegation that the advertising had been found "unsubstantiated" by the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better...
| | Study Finds Lead Contamination in Rice Imports—Could Litigation Be Close Behind?
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Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2013, previously published on April 15, 2013 A recently-published Monmouth (NJ) University study claims to have detected high levels of lead in imported rice. These preliminary findings, which follow media reports last fall about arsenic contamination in rice, pose new regulatory and litigation risks for manufacturers, importers, distributors...
| | Rare Proposition 65 Trial Could Spark Robust Appellate Litigation
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Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2013, previously published on April 19, 2013 Trials in Proposition 65 cases are extremely rare—only 9 out of 3000 have actually gone to trial since the voter initiative went into effect in 1986. Currently, however, a private Prop 65 enforcer, The Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), is engaged in a bench trial against 16 baby food...
| | Supreme Court Hears Latest Preemption Arguments from Drug Manufacturers
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Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2013, previously published on April 19, 2013 On March 19, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett, Docket Number 12-142, to decide whether federal law preempts state law design defect claims against manufacturers of generic drugs. The Bartlett case is the latest battleground in...
| | Chemistry Industry Files Suit to Prevent State from Placing BPA on Prop 65 List
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Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2013, previously published on April 19, 2013 The American Chemistry Council (ACC) recently filed a lawsuit against California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in an effort to block OEHHA from placing bisphenol A (BPA) on the Proposition 65 list of "known" reproductive toxins. ACC claims that the proposed...
| | Allegation of Data Breach Alone Insufficient to Sustain Claims Based on Inadequate Cybersecurity
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Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2013, previously published on April 19, 2013 On March 6, 2013, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that a putative class of LinkedIn premium users lacked standing to pursue state law unfair competition, breach of contract, and negligence claims resulting from a hacking incident. The court dismissed...
| | Supreme Court Denies Review of Third Circuit Decision That MA Organizations Have a Direct Right of Recovery Under the Medicare Secondary Payor (MSP) Act
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Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 16, 2013 On April 15, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari to review a Third Circuit decision that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) have a direct right of recovery against primary payors under the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b). The case is GlaxoSmithKline...
| | Conflicting Court Decisions Highlight Difficulty of Prosecuting Foreign Corporations for Economic Espionage and Trade Secrets Theft
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Legal Alert/Article April 16, 2013, previously published on April 11, 2013 The Obama administration has made the protection of U.S. intellectual property a priority, as we have reported in prior alerts. But achieving that goal is rife with challenges, including the practical barriers to criminal prosecution of foreign corporations for economic espionage and trade secrets...
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