On Thursday, July 15, 2021, the Supreme Court of California released its decision in Ferra v. Loews Hollywood Hotel, LLC, finding that “regular rate of compensation” under California Labor Code sectio...

For more than a year now, policyholders across the country have urged courts and insurance carriers that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused “physical loss and damage” to insured property, resulting in c...

June 2021 saw an interesting collection of arbitration law issued addressed by the courts of the Fifth Circuit.

On June 10, 2021, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee (the “NPC”) passed the Data Security Law (the “DSL”), to be effective on September 1, 2021.

The Texas Supreme Court recently determined that a defendant involved in a sales transaction cannot be liable as a “seller” under the Texas Products Liability Act (“TPLA”) unless it held and relinquis...

On May 27, several modifications to the Administrative Customs Rules were published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

On June 10, 2021, OSHA issued its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) tailored to workplaces where employees provide healthcare services or healthcare support services, with certain exceptions...

On June 10, 2021, OSHA updated its COVID-19 guidance from January 29, 2021, which we discussed here.

May 2021 started slow with a relatively small number of arbitration-related opinions, but by month’s end noteworthy things had happened. In Int'l Energy Ventures Mgmt., L.L.C. v. United Energy Gro...

As interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) financing has increased, Lenders are increasingly looking to offer financial products for projects or companies that are environmentally fri...