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Late last week, the Food and Drug Administration declared its jurisdiction over animal cell culture technology through a public meeting announcement and a statement by Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

You’ll need a plug for that. As Uber tries to build its reputation as a good citizen, it’s unveiling a new plan.

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When companies create anti-bribery programs and provide training to staff, many understandably focus on bribery of foreign government officials.

In a decisive victory for class action defendants, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a pending class action tolls the statute of limitations only for putative class members’ individual claims, and not for any “follow-on” class actions they file on their own.

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On June 15, the United States Trade Representative released two product lists relating to Section 301 duties.

Edwin Simcox, Acting Chief Technology Officer for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), lauded telehealth as an innovation that potentially offers ways to address HHS’s four key priorities.

Why not join the club? Chinese online used-car platform Uxin Ltd. on Wednesday launched an initial public offering estimated to raise $437 million.

The Department of Health and Human Services OIG has issued an advisory opinion approving an arrangement involving the provision of free telemedicine equipment and services by a provider to a potential referral source.

It’s time to pass the ball. Local transportation agency chiefs and researchers told a U.S. Senate panel Wednesday that the federal government’s lead on coordinating investment and fine-tuning regulations will be crucial to getting the nation’s highway infrastructure ready for connected and autonomou

The California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) has posted a preliminary working draft of the regulations implementing California’s prescription drug price transparency law.

Connecticut and Maine recently joined the increasing number of states to enact drug price transparency laws. Maine’s drug price transparency law (the Maine Law) became effective on May 1, 2018.

California federal judge granted O’Reilly Auto Enterprises bid for partial summary judgment on an employee’s Private Attorneys General Act claim, finding her proposed wage-and-hour class action suit did not offer any evidence that O’Reilly violated state labor codes with respect to other workers.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is overhauling the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Medicare and Medicaid program for hospitals.

If you are tired of simply racing cars in arcades, then this could be the job for you. Consumer surveys point to lingering public concerns about the safety of self-driving cars even as the technology launches this year with Waymo’s robot-taxi service in Phoenix.

Those taxi and Uber drivers will have some Olympic competition of their own! A self-driving car service could be on Tokyo’s public roads in time for the 2020 Olympics as Japan looks to drive investment in new technology to drive economic growth, according to a government strategic review announced.

The Monthly Wrap: News, insights, and analysis from Arent Fox’s International Arbitration team.

Will we be hailing driverless cars sooner rather than later? California regulators have allowed self-driving cars to pick up ride-share passengers for the first time in the Golden State.

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Despite Secretary Mnuchin’s statement last week that the Section 301 tariffs were “on hold,” President Trump announced this morning that he is moving ahead with the additional 25 percent ad valorem tariffs on certain Chinese imports to protect US intellectual property rights.

Say it isn’t so! Tea leaves are notoriously imprecise when it comes to divining the future, but as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne has left us no other signs about what the next five years hold for the automaker he is about to leave, tea leaves will have to do.

Kon’nichiwa Motor City. Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp will invest $2.25 billion in General Motors Co’s autonomous vehicle unit Cruise, the companies said, a deal that validates the venerable Detroit automaker’s leadership in self-driving cars and sent GM shares up nearly 13 percent.

Well, it looks like Waymo and FCA US are getting along. Google affiliate Waymo will purchase up to 62,000 additional Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans from FCA US starting later this year to begin a national expansion of the company’s public driverless ride-hailing fleet, the two companies said.

US Bankruptcy Judge in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York granted Avanti Communications Group PLC’s (“Avanti”) request to recognize the UK court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement and enforce the guarantee releases provided by Avanti’s affiliates on certain debt.

Location, location, location. Mapping startup Mapbox Inc said it is teaming up with Microsoft Corp, Intel Corp and Softbank Group Corp’s ARM Holdings chip unit to deepen its push into providing maps for self-driving cars. Mapbox does not make a mapping app itself.

On April 5, 2018, Maryland enacted legislation that will set the amount exempt from Maryland estate tax at $5 million for decedents who die on or after January 1, 2019.

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