Editor’s note: Today Food Safety News takes a look back at the most significant outbreaks in the United States in 2018. As in the past, our year-end coverage is not merely a list of individual stories by individual writers. Generally,
Likely FDA Impact of the Government Shutdown: Regulatory Submission Reviews, Inspections, and Research Projects
The U.S. government shutdown that began December 22, 2018 affected only about a quarter of federal agencies, because most had already been funded for FY 2019. Unfortunately, FDA is one of the agencies with at least some functions shut down,…
Biggest Arbitration Stories Of 2018
As we close out 2018, it is a good time to reflect on the year in arbitration law. Overall, I would characterize the year as another in which everyone was mildly obsessed with class actions, the U.S. Supreme Court again…
CNIL Fines Uber for Data Security Failure Related to 2016 Data Breach
On December 20, 2018, the CNIL announced that it imposed a fine of €400,000 on Uber France SAS for failure to implement some basic security measures which resulted in the 2016 Uber data breach.…
What is Blockchain’s Impact on the Legal Profession?
Before we get into the meat of this post, let’s answer the question that most of us are still asking. What is blockchain? Well, it is simply a chain of blocks. The chain is a public database and blocks are…
China’s Internet Courts are Spreading
Following on the heels of China’s first internet court in Hangzhou, two more internet courts have recently been established in Beijing and Guangzhou. In the meantime, China’s Supreme People’s Court published the Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Trial…
Federal District Court Rules ACA Unconstitutional
On December 14, 2018, a federal district court in Texas held in Texas v. United States that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate is unconstitutional. The court also concluded that because the individual mandate cannot be severed from ACA,…
Navigating the Potential Government Shutdown: LexBlog Perspectives
House Speaker Paul Ryan announced earlier today that President Donald Trump will not sign a Senate-approved stopgap funding bill unless it includes border-wall funding, dramatically increasing the risk of a partial government shutdown. This would mark the third government shutdown…
New York Proposes Innovative Carbon Pricing for Electricity
Carbon pricing is seen by many as an effective means of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity generation. California and several Eastern states have enacted “cap and trade” emission allowance programs, which have forced generators in those states to…
Massive Membership Campaign Launched
Last week, LexBlog began a membership campaign to connect as many quality law blogs as possible. Kevin O’Keefe, the CEO of LexBlog, and Bob Ambrogi, the Editor-in-Chief, sat down to talk about recent events surrounding the campaign and the world…