by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
What happened? On August 1, 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) updated the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) Entity List (EL) to add forty-four more entities in China (eight entities and thirty-six subordinate institutions, as well as numerous...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! And welcome back! October Term 2017 got underway this morning with argument in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (No. 16-285), a case concerning the enforceability of individual arbitration clauses in employment contracts. That could be a case of...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! Although we’ve got no opinions to report for you this week, we do want to briefly catch up on some news out of One First Street. Earlier this week, the Justices dismissed Trump v. Int’l Refugee Assistance Project (16-1436), one of...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with some more non-opinion news from The Nine to wrap up the week (and the October sitting). Perhaps the biggest SCOTUS news this week occurred outside of Washington, where district judges in both Hawaii and Maryland issued...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! Yesterday’s Order List brought no new cert grants (for the second week in a row), but it did include the first two decisions of the term—per curiam GRRs (granting cert, reversing, and remanding) in “state on top” habeas cases....
