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Ryan S. Bewersdorf; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 16, 2013, previously published on April 15, 2013 Major technology companies have already logged 300,000 miles on U.S. roads with self driving cars. Driverless (or automated or autonomous) vehicle technology is rapidly advancing and states are starting to enact legislation. Driverless car technology has the ability to attract billions in research...
| | Federal Circuit Finds Patent Marking is Circumstantial Evidence of Infringement
Courtenay C. Brinckerhoff; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 11, 2013 In Frolow v. Wilson Sporting Goods Co., the Federal Circuit refused to adopt the doctrine of marking estoppel, but held that evidence that Wilson had marked some accused tennis racket models constituted evidence of infringement sufficient to raise a genuine issue of material fact and prevent...
| | Evolving Judicial Attitudes Towards Predictive Coding Suggest It May Soon Be Time to Retire the Defensibility Question
Akiva M. Cohen; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 10, 2013 As predictive coding technology began garnering attention, one of the earliest and most common questions among attorneys paying attention to e-Discovery issues - probably the second most common question, right after “does it work” - was whether judges would accept it if opposing counsel...
| | Intermittent Leave Will Test Your Mettle
Larry S. Perlman; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 11, 2013 As the industry continues its steady recovery, automakers and suppliers have been running on all cylinders, with some plants operating 6 or 7 three day shifts per week. This increased workload makes it all the more important to have a full complement of employees to cover shifts. However,...
| | Elmbrook School District v. Doe: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Rule on the Constitutionality of Holding Public High School Graduations in Elmbrook Church?
Foley Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 11, 2013 During its conference this Friday, April 12, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to consider Elmbrook School District’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking reversal of a decision issued last summer by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Doe v. Elmbrook School...
| | Health Care Providers Beware - You May Be a Governmental Contractor
Daniel A. Kaplan, Mark J. Neuberger; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 11, 2013 Executive Order 11246 (Order) was first issued in September 1965 by President Johnson. Its purpose was to prohibit race, religion, color, and national origin discrimination by federal contractors and subcontractors and require them to engage in “affirmative action” to employ and advance...
| | Hanging Out to Air: CFPB Expands Consumer Complaint Database
Timothy S. Crisp; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 10, 2013 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently expanded its existing Consumer Complaint Database to cover additional consumer financial products and services.
| | Jordan v. Binns: The Seventh Circuit Grapples With Multiple Levels of Hearsay
Kellen C. Kasper; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 11, 2013, previously published on April 9, 2013 The Seventh Circuit has a gift for lawyers looking to brush up on the Federal Rules of Evidence. It comes wrapped as last week’s decision in Jordan v. Binns, No. 11-2134 (7th Cir. Apr. 4, 2013), where the court examined multiple levels of hearsay. Given its evocation of a law-school exam, it...
| | Asset Acquisition Comes With Unexpected FLSA Pain
John F. Birmingham; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 11, 2013, previously published on April 8, 2013 Some bargains are not as they seem. An asset-acquiring Company discovered this the hard way in Teed v. Thomas & Betts Power Solutions. In the case, at an auction, Thomas & Betts purchased the assets of a company in receivership. It knew that a judgment of $500,000 had been entered against...
| | AAO Finds USCIS Impermissibly Redefines Showing of Specialized Knowledge
Roy J. Barquet; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 11, 2013, previously published on April 8, 2013 The Administrative Appeals Office of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, otherwise known as the AAO, recently reversed a finding by U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) that had denied approval of an L-1B intra-company specialized knowledge employment visa for a five-year,...
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