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CYBERSECURITY – New Threat: Scattered Spider International Coalition of Hackers – Cyber adversaries in China and Russia continue to be a formidable threat to U.S. based companies. In the past, scams might be detected because a word was misspelled or the context didn’t make sense. Now, with the help of young Western hackers, cyber adversaries…

The U.S. government recently intervened in a False Claims Act qui tam case against Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Georgia Tech Research Institute for violations of NIST 800-171 for failing to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Long story short, the U.S. intervention means that the government is taking this case seriously,…

The Justice Department has a long and rich history of targeting dominant companies using antitrust monopolization tools — looking back to the 1980s, it was AT&T; in the 1990s, it was Microsoft; and in 2023, DOJ has brought a monopolization case against Google; and meanwhile the FTC filed monopolization cases against Facebook and Amazon….By: The…

Manufacturers of dietary supplements, food, beverages, and even medical devices can breathe a little easier following the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari this week in a case seeking to overturn a First Circuit decision holding that state consumer protection claims that rely on violations of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) are impliedly…

Tennessee recently became the first state in the Union to pass a law protecting creative artists in the music industry from having their works, voices or likenesses duplicated by AI without authorization. On the surface, the bill represents good news for musicians in the state by giving them extra protections, but how the law will…

In February 2024, a New York federal jury returned a split verdict in the New York attorney general’s lengthy battle against Quincy Bioscience, finding that certain of Quincy’s efficacy and establishment claims for a dietary supplement called Prevagen were materially misleading. Quincy advertises that Prevagen improves memory through an active ingredient derived from jellyfish….By: Venable…

Court:  Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston – Carolyn and Frank Burford were married from November 1962 until Carolyn’s death in 2015. While married, Frank Buford worked for Alcoa at its aluminum smelter in Rockdale, Texas. …By: Goldberg Segalla