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Esports and the Law is a quarterly publication featuring news, case summaries, articles and strategies concerning esports and the law. This issue features the following articles: Building Trust Through Process: How New Arbitration Models May Signal Legal Maturation in Esports WIPO’s Oscar Suarez...
In 2025, the General Assembly of Maryland made its boldest move ever to advance energy storage, as part of a legislative package responding to the resource adequacy challenges that are now emerging for the Free State. Late last year, those challenges were described as “dire” by PJM, the regional...
As a national leader in life sciences innovation, Philadelphia has seen significant expansion in research and development infrastructure. The city’s transformation is driven by substantial investments in life sciences construction, particularly in the areas of University City and Center City, where...
On March 26, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a motion, jointly with Townstone Financial Inc., to vacate the judgment and settlement in the enforcement action it settled with Townstone in November. The motion is remarkable on its own, given the intense scrutiny of the action and the...
New presidential administrations always need to pick and choose their priorities. It will be very interesting and enlightening to see whether and if so, how, the Trump administration will focus resources related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act settlements and civil money...
This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing the concept of reasonableness in various forms. One court rejected the parties’ proffered definitions of the term “working” and instead determined that a dictionary definition was reasonable. Two cases reflect courts...
Harvard University has filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s decision to freeze more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts benefitting Harvard. The funding freeze came after Harvard refused a list of demands aimed at eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by insurance companies is one of the most important regulatory issues currently facing the U.S. insurance industry. Recommendations and decisions concerning insurance policy underwriting, pricing and claims adjudications can now be performed faster and more...
Pending continuation applications advantageously provide flexibility to tailor patent claims as infringing products enter the market. Historically, it has often been advantageous to file such applications without fees and utilize extensions of time to essentially “buy” time before an examiner acts...
On April 15, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) informed the public that, effective May 13, 2025, the USPTO will be accelerating the process for issuing patents. Currently, the time between Issue Notification and Issue Date averages around three weeks. However, with the...
Saul Ewing LLP is pleased to announce that Amy Kline and Caitlin Strauss have been honored in the 2025 JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards for their exemplary authorship of The Friday Five. This prestigious award recognizes the top authors and firms for exceptional thought leadership over the past year...
In the long male-dominated construction industry, women have comprised only a small percentage of the trades workforce and leadership positions. Despite significant progress in broadening female representation in the industry, gender stereotypes, workplace discrimination, and legal barriers continue...
On March 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a civil money penalty (“CMP”) of $200,000 against Oregon Health & Science University (“OHSU”) for failing to provide a patient’s personal representative with timely access to medical...
The Trump administration has declared March 12, 2025, as “the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States.” United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, issued various press releases (linked on our Environmental Executive...
What You Need to Know: • Instead of filing multiple applications claiming different aspects of an invention but not sharing a single priority chain, patentees should strive to file highly comprehensive applications that consider as many features and aspects of the invention as possible. Such a...
This month’s Friday Five addresses cases covering ERISA preemption, the viability of a claim for benefits where the claimant alleges to have not received notice of a prior claim denial, an affirmance by the Circuit Court of a denial of benefits, and District Court reviews of decisions denying...
On February 25, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an interim final rule [1] rescinding its regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEQ’s action, in response to President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy Executive Order, [2] comes fifty-six years...