After 40 years of employment with the hospital the nurse alleged that it posted her position and filled the role with someone much younger. A pre-op charge nurse who had been with the hospital for 40 years and in her position for 12 of those before she was informed her job was being reposted can proceed to trial on her ADEA and state-law age discrimination claims even though she never applied for the reposted position, a federal court in Pennsylvania ruled, citing evidence she was replaced by…

Comments are due 60 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register. The CFTC announced its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking pertaining to “Regulation CTX” (crypto asset transactions) and “Regulation CAM” (crypto asset markets), seeking public comment on the specifics in its attempt to develop rules implementing CEA Section 2(c)(2)(D) in the context of crypto assets. The “fit for purpose” rules will be aimed at protecting the public from fraudulent schemes without regulating…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s plans to acquire nationwide access to a network of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) is raising concerns among House Oversight and Government Reform Democrats. The FBI issued a request for proposal in May “to acquire ALPR systems that offer the ability to search for license plate information ‘and other descriptive data such as vehicle description information, time/date criteria, and geo-location criteria,’” the lawmakers noted in a letter to FBI…

The court first denied PhRMA a preliminary injunction because it could not establish preemption and then dismissed one of PhRMA’s claims because Vermont successfully argued that the statute in question was not impermissibly vague. The Vermont federal district court has denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) against the Commissioner of Health for the state of Vermont (Vermont) over Vermont House Bill 266. H.B. 266…

The senators said the agency director should answer for what they called “abuses of power.” Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee asked panel Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to hold a hearing with Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte following what they called “various reported abuses of power” by the agency head. “We request you invite Director Pulte to testify before the Senate Banking Committee so our committee can fulfill its oversight functions and explore how his…

The Board found that “jaspe” is a type of fabric, but the Applicant’s products do not contain it. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed the Trademark Examining Attorney’s refusal to register the proposed mark JASPE on the ground that it is deceptively misdescriptive of the Applicant’s goods under Section 2(e)(1) of the Trademark Act. Applicant sought registration of the standard-character mark for various clothing, including shirts and pants. Citing third-party evidence, the Board…

Premature termination of software interoperability agreement with competitor was done at a time when patent litigation was pending and several patents were approaching expiry. A Ninth Circuit panel has reversed and remanded a district court's summary judgement grant on a refusal-to-deal allegation brought against an orthodontic appliance manufacturer. The manufacturer had developed and patented a system whereby measurements inside a patient's mouth are taken with a scanner. The manufacturer…

A 2024 inspection report presented by the claimant supported a plausible inference that the Angio-Seal was not produced pursuant to the rigorous PMA requirements imposed on the manufacturer by the FDA. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that manufacturing defect and negligence claims brought against Terumo Medical Corporation over its Angio-Seal vascular closure device were not preempted by the Medical Device Amendments (MDA) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act…

After receiving a religious exemption from the city’s vaccination policy, the employee contended that requiring him to test and wear masks created a hostile work environment. Affirming a district court’s dismissal and denial of a motion for reconsideration of a City of Pasadena employee’s claims surrounding its COVID-19 vaccination policies, the Ninth Circuit agreed with the lower court that the defendants had immunity from all the employee’s claims under the Public Readiness and Emergency…