Mike LaSusa

  • The U.S. Department of Labor released a pair of memos Friday clarifying rules for employers reporting cases of COVID-19 and sketching out guidelines for a program meant to supplement unemployment benefits as the economy reels from the effects of the pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Gilead Sciences Inc. urged the Federal Circuit on Thursday to nix a Merck & Co. subsidiary’s bid for the full court to review a panel decision that wiped out a $2.5 billion verdict in a patent dispute, calling the Merck unit’s “attacks” on the panel’s ruling “an exercise in selective omission”… Read this piece in…

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  • A split Ninth Circuit panel sent an immigration detainee’s coronavirus-based emergency release bid to a California district court on Thursday, though the dissenting judge said the appeals panel should have tossed the case by the man with no COVID-19 symptoms, asking “If he’s entitled to relief, who isn’t?”… Read this piece in its entirety at…

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  • California-based law firm Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP has been hit with a lawsuit in Los Angeles court claiming one of its name partners was involved in Hollywood honcho Aaron Kaplan’s alleged plot to plant spy cameras in the bedroom of his brother’s widow… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Michigan strip club sued the Small Business Administration in federal court on Wednesday, claiming the agency violated the Constitution by implementing regulations barring COVID-19 relief loans for establishments that have “live performances of a prurient sexual nature”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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