Articles

10.24.22

Real Estate Exactions – Again

In his most recent column in Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Senior Counsel Michael Berger discussed a recent case involving exactions imposed as conditions to land use permits after the California Supreme Court failed to apply the exactions rules established by previous similar federal Supreme ...


10.04.22

Scare(y) Decisis: Reversing Rights and Wrongs

In his latest column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Partner Benjamin Shatz explored the current state of stare decisis, its vertical and horizontal “flavors,” and the principle’s role in how and when courts decide to overrule precedent. Shatz explained that the policy of ...


10.04.22

Providing Reproductive Health Care Should Not Require a Legal Education

Manatt Health Associate Julian Polaris and Managing Director Naomi Newman published an opinion piece for MedPage Today about the evolving and uncertain legal landscape for health care providers and pregnant people seeking abortion services across state lines following the U.S. Supreme Court ...


09.30.22

Implementing the Drug Negotiation Provisions of the IRA: Considerations For CMS

In an article for Health Affairs, Manatt Health Senior Advisor Ian Spatz provided considerations for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as the agency soon begins implementing the drug negotiation provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022.  Spatz explained ...


09.29.22

BankThink: Bank-Fintech Partnerships Don't Need More Regulation

Consumer Financial Services practice Leader Scott Pearson and Manatt Financial Services Associate Eric Knight wrote a column for American Banker saying that regulators’ criticisms of bank-fintech partnerships and calls for further regulation are misplaced sentiments that would “destroy ...


09.29.22

Know Your Audience Before You Tell Your Story to the Judge, Jury, Arbitrator

Manatt Litigation Partner Kevin Dwight wrote an article for Legal Perspectives on how litigators can best present their case to judges, juries and arbitrators, offering strategies to secure the right audience and most effectively tell a story that will give the highest chance of success for these ...


09.28.22

Apartment Owners Prevail in COVID-19 Test

In his latest “Takings Talk” column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Senior Counsel Michael Berger discussed a federal case arising in Minnesota wherein an apartment owner challenged a state-wide eviction moratorium, testing the judicial strength of apartment owners' arguments ...


09.26.22

What Artists, Influencers and Brands Need to Know

Manatt Partner Esra Hudson and Associates Mackenzie Pearson and Ryan Patterson wrote a column for the Daily Journal about the impact that California’s Senate Bill 62, known as the Garment Worker Protection Act, has had on the entertainment industry.  SB 62, which went into effect on ...


09.06.22

Dicta ain’t necessarily so

In their latest column for the Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Partner Benjamin Shatz and Associate Benjamin Strauss examined the Ninth Circuit’s four-year debate on what constitutes a holding and the resulting shift from the narrow “necessity model” to the broad ...


08.31.22

Oil and Gas and Cities – Oh, My!

In Manatt Appellate Senior Counsel Michael Berger’s most recent column for Daily Journal, he examined a case in which Trinity East Energy claimed the City of Dallas violated the constitution by taking its property without compensation after the energy company was denied a natural gas drilling ...