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10/31/2022 6:28:58 PM Deliberate Data Deletion Leads to Default Judgment By David Cohen In Atalian US New England, LLC v. Navarro, No. C.A. No. 20-00133-JJM (D.R.I. July 12, 2022), a Magistrate Judge recommended default...
10/28/2022 5:08:14 PM EPA Enforcement Focus: Stationary Engines By Megan Haines A.J. Wissinger A recent US EPA enforcement alert targets air emissions from stationary engines. Companies in a variety of industries rely on stationary...
10/27/2022 2:07:18 PM Transparency in shipping – Industry warns of unintended consequences of greener shipping By Laura Hyne A leading tanker broker has recently warned that the IMO’s Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) and Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index...
10/25/2022 2:38:37 PM German financial regulator publishes FinTech Innovation Hub By Anselm Reinertshofer The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, "BaFin") has recently published an...
10/24/2022 9:24:00 AM Transparency in shipping - Disclosing the COVID status of crew By Aselle Ibraimova It’s a critical question for owners, operators and crews working worldwide. Must personal information about a crew member’s COVID status...
10/20/2022 10:01:14 PM MAS signals moves welcomed by e-money wallet providers By Bryan Tan After two years of coming to grips with the Payment Services Act regime, e-money service providers have cause for celebration when the...
10/20/2022 1:00:00 PM ACR partners to launch screening trial to determine the value of contrast-enhanced mammography for women with dense breasts By Tom Greeson The American College of Radiology (ACR) announced this week what they call the Contrast-Enhanced Mammography Imaging Screening Trial...
10/19/2022 5:58:04 PM Expect breast density notification rules soon from FDA By Tom Greeson In a letter written last week to U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, the U.S....
10/19/2022 2:51:26 PM Municipio de Mariana v. BHP – key points from the Court of Appeal’s decision to allow the environmental group action to continue in the English courts By Thomas Morgan The Court of Appeal delivered its judgment in the keenly awaited Mariana v. BHP group litigation this summer, giving over 202,600...
10/18/2022 9:48:39 AM Transparency in shipping - Poseidon Principles raise the bar By Susan Riitala When the Poseidon Principles for ship finance were originally published in 2019, there were eleven signatories. The group has now grown...
10/17/2022 1:40:04 PM The EU-U.S. Data Protection Framework: A Summary of the U.S. Executive Order issued on Oct. 9 - today and tomorrow By Andy Splittgerber This freshly released Executive Order will form the basis for a new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, aka Safe Harbor Framework v3 or...
10/14/2022 8:39:16 PM Second Circuit Orders Refund of Citibank’s $500 Million Payment By Kurt F. Gwynne Victoria Russell On September 8, 2022, via a 101-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned the district court and ruled...
10/14/2022 9:22:22 AM Transparency in shipping - UK's all aboard for electronic bills of lading By Bryan Tan UK announced a draft electronic trade documents bill which will enable bills of lading using distributed ledger technology to be...
10/14/2022 9:18:30 AM Data law and Disclosure: A balancing act? By Jonathan Andrews An interesting verdict was reached by Advocate General (“AG”) Ćapeta in the case of Norra Stockholm Bygg AB v Per Nycander AB, joined...
10/14/2022 8:56:33 AM When the use of new technologies in shipbuilding causes delays By Thor Maalouf Sally-Ann Underhill Increasing focus on decarbonisation and recent global events have led to more shipbuilding projects involving state of the art...
10/13/2022 2:48:12 PM Will radiology teaching programs embrace long-term remote teleradiology models for some of their faculty? By Tom Greeson During the acute stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of my clients that are academic departments of medical schools with residency...