Apr 10, 2018 | Environmental law, News
“The Office of Environmental Health HazardAssessment has adopted a No Significant Risk Level of 1100 micrograms per day forglyphosate. This means that exposures to glyphosate below 1100micrograms per day are not considered a significant risk of cancer for...
Apr 8, 2018 | Environmental law, News
A Superior Court Judge in the latest in a series of Prop 65 cases involving coffee industry has tentatively ruled that the Prop 65 warnings are required. CERT v. Starbucks.( LA Ct. NO. BC435759). The chemical at issue, Acrylamide, is formed in coffee beans during the...
Apr 5, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Olivia de Havilland will celebrate her 102nd birthday on July 1. She was famous as an actor, starring in such films as Gone With the Wind and winning two Academy Awards (losing a third one to her sister, Joan Fontaine). Among lawyers, though, she was perhaps most...
Mar 27, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
This morning, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals revived the long-running case of Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC. in a 56-page ruling. The ruling is particularly important to programmers, as it holds that Google’s copying of the declaring code and...
Mar 22, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
After a massive dispute, streaming services will now be required to pay more for the music they play. The Copyright Royalty Board ruled to increase royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers from music streaming companies by 43.8 percent (they go into effect...
Mar 20, 2018 | Environmental law, News
Read the article here. This memorandum addresses AB 617 Garcia (the Community Air Protection Program), Chapter 136, Statutes of 2017. There is also a short discussion of the recently released (2/7/2018) California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) “Concept Paper” and the...