07.25.14
According to a new complaint filed in California federal court against Express Fashion Apparel, LLC, the retailer’s collection of a customer’s phone number and e-mail address during a credit card transaction violates the state’s Song-Beverly Act.
07.24.14
A Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge last week approved the government’s ability to conduct searches and seizures of entire email accounts stored by third-party providers like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Apple without having to establish probable cause that all the emails seized ...
07.23.14
While the 2013-2014 U.S. Supreme Court term may be over, the justices have granted certiorari in two major employment cases slated for the fall.
07.22.14
While providers are showing great interest in creating ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), they are showing even greater enthusiasm for organizing ACOs to contract with private insurers.
The 30 day statute of limitations for CEQA challenges was upheld to bar litigation alleging that a project, as constructed, was different from how that project was described in the CEQA document.
07.21.14
On July 21, Forbes.com published an article by Manatt’s Sports Law Practice Group Chair, Ron Katz, on the class action brought by former UCLA basketball player, Ed O’Bannon, against the NCAA.
07.18.14
L’Oreal deceptively advertised skincare products with unsubstantiated claims that they could provide antiaging benefits by targeting consumers’ genetic makeups, the Federal Trade Commission charged in an administrative complaint.
Depending on whom you ask, Operation Choke Point has a promising future ahead of it – or will soon be history.
07.16.14
On July 25, 2014, Manatt litigation partner Donna Wilson will speak at a session titled “All About the Telephone Consumer Protection Act” during Bridgeport Continuing Education’s Advertising, Marketing & Media Law: Litigation & Best Practices Seminar.
07.11.14
While recognizing the benefits of using new sources of information, the National Advertising Division (NAD) decided that an advertiser’s use of aggregated online reviews was insufficiently reliable and representative to support a claim that its vacuum was “America’s Most ...