The EPA Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) February 15, 2024, report on EPA’s practices in collecting, retaining, and producing criminal discovery materials in environmental cases found that EPA’s special agents largely adhered to requirements embedded in the due process clauses
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EPA Lowers the Fine Particulate NAAQS: A Closer Look at Implementation and Potential Impacts
On February 7, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Final Rule lowering the primary annual National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) from the current level of 12 micrograms per cubic meter…
A New Supreme Court Case Could Take a Toll on Copyright Trolls
This week, we are pleased to have a guest post from Intellectual Property + Technology Group lawyer John L. Cordani, Jr. and Business Litigation Team lawyer, Janet J. Kljyan.
We have seen a noticeable uptick in lawsuits commenced…
What is Required to Allege Standing in Cases Alleging Invasion of Privacy? Third Circuit Weighs In.
In today’s world nearly everyone’s name, address and various other pieces of arguably personal information reside on many companies’ computer servers. Sharing of such information between companies has resulted in countless class action suits, in many of which the alleged…
HC3 Warns Healthcare Organizations about Akira Ransomware Group
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently warned the health care sector about the Akira ransomware group that has been hitting health care organizations since May of 2023. In an Analyst Note dated February 7, 2024, HC3 stated that…
Dragos Outlines Voltzite’s Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
In a joint release last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal agencies issued a chilling Advisory about the ongoing attacks by Volt Typhoon on U.S. critical infrastructure. Volt Typhoon is a People’s Republic of China…
Memo for Use of AI During Practice Issued by USPTO
This week we are pleased to have a guest post by Robinson+Cole Artificial Intelligence Team patent agent Daniel J. Lass.
After several high-profile instances of artificial intelligence (AI) hallucination and Chief Justice John Roberts’s year-end report acknowledging the shortcomings…
Privacy Tip #389 – FTC Outlines Top Scams in 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) keeps track of scams that are reported to it and summarizes those scams in a report outlining the most successful scams of the prior year.
Last year’s statistics are disturbing, as many of the same…
CMS Updates Guidance to Allow Texting of Patient Orders
On February 8, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a quality standard memorandum (QSO Memo) updating and revising a memorandum it issued on January 5, 2018, to now permit the texting of patient orders among members…
Nine PFAS Compounds Proposed to be Hazardous Constituents Under RCRA
On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published two proposed rules in the Federal Register that would expand the EPA’s authority to address certain per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). These…