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California has a strong public policy favoring trial by jury, and since California Supreme Court’s decision in Grafton Partners, L.P. v. Superior Court, 116 P. 3d 479 (2005), contractual pre-dispute jury trial waivers have been held invalid in cases unless otherwise expressly authorized by statute.

Arent Fox political law leader Craig Engle wrote an opinion piece published in the New York Daily News on April 27 arguing that the US Supreme Court should rule same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional because they restrict the political contribution rights of same-sex  couples who are not allowe

An Arent Fox team led by noted commercial litigator Hunter T. Carter prevailed at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

This is the third installment from Birgit Matthiesen for a planned series of cross-border trade updates.

Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District Court for the District of Delaware reversed and remanded the decision of the Bankruptcy Court which approved a Bankruptcy Rule 9019 settlement that Judge Stark concluded had been inadequately noticed under the circumstances.

Washington, DC — The Legal Marketing Association has honored Arent Fox LLP with a nationwide first place award for community relations as a result of the firm’s connection with the award-winning geography game GeoPlunge.

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Health Care Compliance Association jointly released an educational resource for governing boards.

Technological advances make it easier than ever to purchase tickets for live sporting events via secondary ticket exchange. These advances create intense competition in the secondary ticket exchange business, as companies seek to capture revenue from fees.

Chief Judge Cecelia G. Morris of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York decided that banks may not place an administrative freeze, even a temporary one, on the bank account of an individual who files for bankruptcy.

Last week, Health Care partner Lowell C. Brown published an article in Bloomberg BNA’s Health Law Report that examines what hospital and medical staff leaders should do when a staff member is hospitalized with signs of impairment.

Employers in New York are bound by a law that requires them to pay workers who report for scheduled shifts at least four hours of pay, even if managers send them home earlier.

Clothing retailers Urban Outfitters and Free People recently agreed to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the retailers improperly collected ZIP codes from customers at checkout by giving class members a gift card.

Sovereign Assets Ltd. (SAL), a real estate firm based in Israel, was unable to service its debt obligations and was placed into liquidation proceedings in Israel. Two administrators, who had been appointed to liquidate the company in Israel, commenced Chapter 15 proceeding.

Arent Fox Political Law partner Craig Engle appeared on The Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss how campaign finance laws and same sex marriage bans can violate the First Amendment.

Earlier this week, the owners of the egg distribution firm, Quality Egg, LLC (Quality Egg), were sentenced to three months in prison, given one year of supervised probation, and required to each pay a $100,000 fine after pleading guilty to selling eggs in 2010 that were contaminated with salmonella.

On April 16, 2015, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a contempt citation against social media company Yelp, Inc. (Yelp) in a closely watched case involving anonymous free speech rights on the internet.

Arent Fox Political Law partner Craig Engle was featured in the National Journal about a new argument being made in favor of same sex marriage.

Peter R. Zeidenberg and Health Care partner David S. Greenberg published an article in Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report that examines an important decision after the Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully prosecuted Medicare fraud at Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago.

Last week, 14 state attorneys general sent a letter to Congress requesting that it investigate the herbal supplements industry, as well as consider giving the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stronger oversight authority over the marketing of such products in the US.

Federal contractors are subject to a variety of employment-related laws and regulations as part of the price of doing business with the government.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has informed a US district court that it may not be proposing regulations requiring energy and mining companies to disclose payments to governments for the extraction of natural resources until spring 2016.

In a recent non-precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled that the fast food chain Del Taco, Inc. (Del Taco) no longer enjoys trademark rights in the NAUGLES brand associated with Naugles, Inc., a California-based fast food chain that Del Taco acquired in the late-1980s.

Macy’s is currently engaged in litigation to regain ownership of multiple trademarks associated with Macy’s-owned department stores that are no longer in use.

In its ruling, the Appellate Court partially reversed the lower court’s limited approval of the Settlement by finding that the lower court improperly seconded-guessed the judgment of the Trustee and did not accord that judgment proper deference when considering approval of the Settlement.

Georgetown University Law Center, Arent Fox LLP, and DLA Piper LLP announced the launch of the DC Affordable Law Firm.