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When a Trade & Commodity Finance bank makes a secured loan to a commodities trader, the ultimate origin of the collateral is physical commodities. Even if the collateral transforms into intangibles like receivables, forward book or contract rights—it all started out with physical stuff….By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

On September 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through the Office of Research Integrity (“ORI”) issued its Final Rule, the long-anticipated update to the 2005 Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct (“2005 PHS Regulations”), updating the current guidelines imposed in 42 C.F.R. § 93.000, et. seq. The Final Rule,…

With the United States preparing to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the race is on for venues, individual states and the federal government to balance the increased security risks of exceptionally large crowds with the Fourth Amendment right…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a “sweep” targeting AI-related conduct this week. The cases provide insight into how the agency may approach AI-related issues going forward and illustrate differences among the agency’s commissioners in how to approach issues raised by AI….By: Venable LLP

Many things go without saying. But the fact that attorneys wear many hats—especially those working as in-house counsel—shouldn’t be one of them. These professionals must not only appear Janus-like in their ability to vacillate between roles on demand, but they must now do so while wrangling their new, un-bonnetable teammate, Artificial Intelligence….By: Butler Snow LLP

Accidents involving large commercial trucks often lead to complex legal processes. The most complicated aspect of a fatal truck accident is identifying the person or company responsible for it. Depending on the details of the accident, it’s possible for the truck driver or truck company to be responsible for it….By: Maison Law

Key Points:  Judicial estoppel only requires that the party “successfully obtained a benefit by assertion of the position that she now seeks to dispute.”  Expert testimony and closing arguments are sufficient for the purposes of application of judicial estoppel….By: Marshall Dennehey

Texas AG Ken Paxton settled with Pieces Technologies, Inc. (Pieces)—an artificial intelligence healthcare technology company that offers generative AI products to healthcare facility staff to assist in summarizing, charting, and drafting clinical notes in patients’ records—over allegations that it made deceptive claims about the safety and accuracy of its products in violation of Texas’s Deceptive…

On September 24, 2024, Amgen, Inc. filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts after discovering that confidential information that was provided to the company was subject to unauthorized access after an incident at Sirva Relocation, LLC (“Sirva”). In this notice, Amgen explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party…