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On August 19, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) filed a notice of appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas's June 20, 2024, decision in American Hospital Association (AHA), et al. v. Xavier Becerra, et al. The district court held that OCR exceeded its authority in certain respects in a bulletin (the Bulletin) concerning HIPAA's application to cookies and other online tracking technologies on HIPAA-regulated [...]

In our recent alert, we noted that while a Texas federal court's decision in Ryan LLC v. FTC to preliminarily enjoin the FTC's noncompete rule applied only to the parties in the case, there was still potential for a broader preliminary injunction to be granted in another case – ATS Tree Services LLC – being heard in the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania. That possibility has been rejected. On July 23, 2024, Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge [...]

In issuing its opinion in Babaletos v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc., et al., 493 Mass. 460 (2024), the SJC held that a judge "has broad discretion over setting a schedule for the presentation of evidence, so long as exercise of that discretion is reasonable and does not interfere with a party's right to present his or her case." 493 Mass. at 465. The issue on appeal in Babaletos was whether the time limitations imposed by the [...]