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On June 3, 2019, the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) announced that it had approved a regulation proposed by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) that would exempt businesses from having to provide Proposition 65...By: Morrison & Foerster LLP

Well, that was short lived.  FiatChrysler broke news late yesterday that it’s withdrawing its offer to merge with France’s Renault, mere weeks after the companies bowled over the auto world with the proposal. Fiat blamed the French government for...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

The United States Supreme Court finally clarified its 11-year-old “clear evidence” standard for pharmaceutical preemption.  In its much-anticipated opinion delivered by Justice Breyer, the Court unanimously reversed the Third Circuit’s holding that...By: Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed

The much-anticipated public hearing last week at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds drew a wide audience of participants, with strong views on how the FDA should (or should not) regulate the controversial...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

In Shareholder Representative Services LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC, C.A. No. 2018-0517-KSJM (Del. Ch. May 29, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a merger agreement provision assigning pre-merger privilege held by sellers to Shareholder...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On 1 March 2019 the NEC published a revision to the NEC4 suite of contracts, first published in June 2017. Whilst generally focused on addressing typographical errors and/or terminology corrections, a more significant amendment has been made to...By: K&L Gates LLP

Join Shipman & Goodwin tax attorneys Louis Schatz and David Bigger for this complimentary webinar reviewing significant issues that the IRS addressed in the new Opportunity Zones regulations and the impact that the new set of regulations will have on...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

In the recent case of Mears v Costplan [2019] EWCA Civ 502, the Court of Appeal provided significant clarity as to how courts should interpret the widely used but seldom defined term, “practical completion” in the context of construction contracts....By: K&L Gates LLP

In Tanimura & Antle Fresh Foods, Inc. v. Salinas Union High School District, the Sixth District Court of Appeal considered whether the Salinas Union High School District (“District”) acted reasonably in imposing a school impact fee on a new 100-unit...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Contractors do not have to waive future claim rights when negotiating the direct cost of a change order (modification) with the government, despite banter by the contracting officer that reservation of claims is not permitted. More often than not,...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP