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On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order directing federal regulatory agencies to take a variety of steps that, if completed and upheld by the courts, would effect a sea change in the government’s regulation of businesses’ competitive practices.
Client Alert | July 9, 2021
In this update, Gibson Dunn's lawyers look at the key employment law considerations our clients face across the UK, France and Germany connected to a return to the workplace in the near future, including: (i) ensuring a “Covid-secure” workplace’ and whether to continue to offer flexible working arrangements in the future; (ii) whether to implement an employee Covid-19 vaccination policy (and if so, whether it should be compulsory or voluntary); and (iii) vaccination certification logistics and the facilitation of Covid-19 testing for employees.
Client Alert | July 8, 2021
On June 23, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held 6-3 that a California regulation granting labor organizations a right of access to agricultural employers’ property to solicit support for unionization, constitutes a “per se” physical taking under the Fifth Amendment.
Client Alert | July 8, 2021
Gibson Dunn lawyers discuss developments at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for June 2021, including the Supreme Court’s decisions in Arthrex and Minerva Surgical.
Client Alert | July 6, 2021
On July 1, 2021, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that California’s requirement that non-profit organizations disclose their donor lists unconstitutionally burdens those organizations’ expressive association rights, in violation of the First Amendment.
Client Alert | July 1, 2021
Century City partner Scott Edelman and Los Angeles associate Jillian London are the authors of "Judge ignored facts, law while taking knife to assault weapons ban," [PDF] published by the Daily Journal on June 28, 2021.
Article | July 1, 2021
Washington, D.C. partner Judith Alison Lee and associates Audi Syarief and Claire Yi are the authors of "United States sanctions against Myanmar's military conglomerates" [PDF] published by Financier Worldwide in June 2021.
Article | June 30, 2021
On 25 June 2021, the UK Supreme Court rendered its judgment in General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited v The State of Libya. This much anticipated decision provides important guidance concerning the interaction of State immunity principles with the rules applicable to the service of enforcement proceedings on States.
Client Alert | June 29, 2021
Today, the Supreme Court upheld the doctrine of assignor estoppel in patent cases, concluding in a 5-4 decision that a patent assignor cannot, with certain exceptions, subsequently challenge the patent’s validity.
Client Alert | June 29, 2021
On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that the Natural Gas Act authorizes a private party who has obtained federal government approval to exercise eminent domain power along a federally approved pipeline route to sue a State to condemn state land.
Client Alert | June 29, 2021
Zum BMF-Schreiben vom 24.03.2021: Das Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) hat vor kurzem zur körperschaftsteuerlichen Anerkennung von Gewinnabführungsverträgen Stellung genommen. Dies gibt Anlass, insbesondere sog. Altverträge, die vor dem 27.02.2013 abgeschlossen oder letztmals geändert worden sind, zu prüfen und ggf. anzupassen.
Client Alert | June 28, 2021
On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced that two officers of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. have resigned their positions on the board of directors of Live Nation Entertainment Inc. in the wake of concerns expressed by DOJ that the two companies formed an illegal interlocking directorate under the antitrust laws.
Client Alert | June 25, 2021
Los Angeles partners Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. and Theane Evangelis are the authors of "10 Years Of Dukes: A Resounding Class Certification Legacy," [PDF] published by Law360 on June 25, 2021.
Article | June 25, 2021
On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that the Clean Air Act authorizes the EPA to exempt a small refinery from compliance with the renewable fuel standards program, even if the small refinery had not received an exemption each year since the program commenced in 2011.
Client Alert | June 25, 2021
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that every member of a class certified under Rule 23 must establish Article III standing in order to be awarded individual damages.
Client Alert | June 25, 2021
On June 8, 2021, in Oakwood Laboratories LLC v. Thanoo, the Third Circuit “endeavored to clarify the requirements for pleading a trade secret misappropriation claim under the Defend Trade Secrets Act” (DTSA).
Client Alert | June 24, 2021
A ruling by the Versailles Administrative Court of Appeal on 29 January 2021 could result in a historic ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Upon referral by the Court, the CJEU will be called upon to rule on the existence of a right to breathe clean air and on the liability incurred by the Member States of the European Union in the case of disregard of their obligations in terms of air quality.
Client Alert | June 23, 2021
On June 23, 2021, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—led by a single Director, removable only “for cause”—violates the Constitution’s separation of powers, but ruled 8-1 that a remand is necessary to determine the proper scope of relief.
Client Alert | June 23, 2021
On June 11, 2021, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law a Uniform Foreign Country Money Judgments Act, amending New York’s Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act of 1970. With this enactment, New York follows a growing number of U.S. states that have modernized their recognition acts over the last decade.
Client Alert | June 22, 2021
On June 11, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission released Chair Gary Gensler’s Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. Gibson Dunn lawyers summarize the key and noteworthy aspects of the Agenda.
Client Alert | June 21, 2021