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This decision from the Appellate Division reversed a finding that an indenture trustee did not have the relevant standing to pursue fraudulent transfer claims, among other claims.

Trump has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA and scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the flagging Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. But there has been virtually no discussion of how a Trump administration would address and enforce anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders.

On November 9, Arent Fox, Aronson LLC, and Morgan Stanley hosted an executive summit for exempt organizations that featured strategies for making and saving money and tips on top governance issues.

USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) recently announced that meat and poultry products may use the Nutrition Facts label recently finalized by FDA earlier this year.

Last week, FDA issued a final version of Guidance for Industry, Contract Manufacturing Arrangements for Drugs: Quality Agreements.

The standard, which was sponsored by several labor unions, will require covered healthcare providers to develop workplace violence prevention plans, training programs, and recordkeeping procedures to track certain incidents of workplace violence. 

On November 17, FDA announced that it had revised, and finalized in part, Guidance for Industry, Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012: Questions and Answers Related to User Fee Assessments. 

On November 21, 2016, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its updated enforcement guidance on national origin discrimination to replace its 2002 compliance manual section on that subject.

In the wake of the legalization of cannabis in the state of California following last week’s election, it is important for businesses to take stock of several legal issues as opportunities within this burgeoning market continue to grow.

On Nov. 8, 2016, California voters passed Proposition 64, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.

A review of FSIS recall data from the past five years indicates that recalls of meat and poultry products due to the presence of foreign matter contamination have grown in number, particularly over the past year.

From large corporations to small nonprofits, from urban centers to rural communities, the 2016 elections will have an impact across all sectors of the economy and globally as well.

The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania recently sided with the EEOC in holding that sexual orientation discrimination is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even though the Act does not expressly state that.

The California Court of Appeal has held that employers’ itemized wage payment statements do not have to include the monetary value of an employee’s accrued vacation or paid time off.

On October 14, 2016, the Office of Antiboycott Compliance joined the 21st century and issued a Final Rule that permits electronic submission as an additional method to report requests.

At its monthly Open Meeting on October 27, the Federal Communications Commission adopted, but has not yet released, new privacy rules requiring retail broadband providers to offer consumers more choice over how their personal information is used.

International arbitration awards usually have little chance of being vacated, but a recent decision by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York overturned an award because the parties did not in fact agree to arbitrate. Arbitration, the court ruled, is about consent, not coercion.

The Cayman Islands published a draft set of laws at the end of August in its push to modernize and update its intellectual property laws.