08.19.21
In the latest post-Barr development, a federal district court in Colorado held that the government-backed debt exception was always invalid, but found that due process concerns prevented enforcement of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit against the defendant.
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules to implement the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, providing guidance on how “private entities” can report robocall violations.
Contractual consent provisions are revocable, a Pennsylvania federal district court recently held in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuit, although it sent the issue of whether the plaintiff effectively revoked his consent to a jury.
On July 22, 2021, a bipartisan group of senators led by Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021.
08.18.21
On June 11, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom acted to lift the nation’s first statewide “stay-at-home” order and much of the other COVID-19 guidance his administration had put in place, including his Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
08.17.21
In Raytheon Technologies Corporation v. General Electric Company, the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board incorrectly invalidated a Raytheon turbine engine patent as obvious based on a three-decade-old paper that attempted to prophetically describe an earlier ...
Since December 2020, the United States has administered more than 330 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, with 163 million people, or 49 percent of the population, completing a full vaccine series.
Before leaving for its August recess, the Senate made progress on two major Biden Administration priorities by passing bipartisan infrastructure legislation and a fiscal year 2022 budget resolution.
08.16.21
On July 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the annual Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2022.
08.12.21
On August 10, 2021, a Missouri circuit court ruled that Missouri can no longer delay Medicaid expansion.