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...
Apr 5, 2018 | Business Litigation, Intellectual Property law
Typically, the two most concerning provisions of cross border agreements is the arbitration and termination provisions. Often times, these agreements are not well thought out and disputes as to their content and enforceability are disputed. With regard to arbitration...
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...