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Pence Seeks to Go Where No Vice President Has Gone Before
In running for the Republican nomination against Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence will be the first vice president to directly challenge the president who originally put him on the ticket.
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Mark Meadows Testified to Grand Jury in Special Counsel Investigation of Trump
Mr. Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under Donald Trump, is seen as a potentially key witness in the documents and Jan. 6 inquiries.
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How Sam Altman Stormed Washington to Set the A.I. Agenda
The chief executive of OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, has met with at least 100 U.S. lawmakers in recent months. He has also taken his show abroad.
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Using AI to Help Hire May Seem Easy — Until the Legal Challenge Comes In
I’m not big on predictions, but I’m confidently predicting the news about AI will just keep coming — some good and some bad. We can all expect that AI either already is or will become a routine part of your recruiting and hiring, perhaps eventually even helping to manage performance……By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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Another Resolution by DOJ Pursuant to its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative Highlights Continued Efforts to Hold Companies Accountable for Ensuring Data are Secured
We previously wrote about the United States Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“CCFI”), which “aims to hold accountable entities or individuals that put U.S. information or systems at risk by knowingly providing deficient cybersecurity products or services, knowingly misrepresenting their cybersecurity practices or protocols, or knowingly violating obligations to monitor and report cybersecurity…
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SaaS Remains Subject to TPT in Arizona
By Geoffrey L. Gunnerson and Tony Caldwell The Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, affirmed lower Arizona court rulings that sales of leased software in Arizona constitutes a sale of tangible personal property (TPP), which are subject to Arizona’s transaction privilege tax (TPT) requirements….By: Snell & Wilmer
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FDA Requests Public Input on Increasing Access to Home-Use Health Technologies
The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), the section of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsible for the regulation of medical devices, has issued a request for public comments on expanding patient access to medical technologies intended for use by patients in their homes. The June 1, 2023 notice from CDRH includes a…
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Supreme Court Rejects “Objectively Reasonable” Defense to False Claims Act Liability
The SuperValu case arose from separate lawsuits against two companies that operate retail drug pharmacies across the country: SuperValu Inc. and Safeway, Inc. In each case, a whistleblower – on behalf of the federal government – brought FCA claims against the company for allegedly overcharging Medicare and Medicaid in seeking reimbursement for prescription drugs. The…
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The University of Rochester Provides Notice of Possible Data Breach Stemming from Vulnerability in File Transfer Service
On June 2, 2023, the University of Rochester (“UR”) posted a notice on its website explaining that the University is currently responding to a data breach resulting from a vulnerability with a third-party file transfer. While the University of Rochester’s systems were not breached, confidential information belonging to faculty and students may be at risk…
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Progress Software Corporation Confirms Recent MOVEit Vulnerability, Raising Concerns of Future Data Breaches
On May 31, 2023, Progress Software Corporation posted a notice on its website confirming a recently discovered SQL injection vulnerability related to the company’s MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Cloud. Based on the company’s post, the vulnerability could result in an unauthorized party gaining access to the computer networks of the companies that use these services.…