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Published: February 10, 2022
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Jessica R. Corpuz
The IP Law Blog
The Second Circuit recently reversed an injunction stripping designer and Instagram influencer Hayley Paige Gutman of her Instagram accounts in a dispute with her former business partners.
Published: February 8, 2022
Jeanne Vance assisted with licensing for Signature Healthcare Services as they expanded into the Sacramento region with the Sacramento Behavioral Health Hospital. The 117-bed facility is the first acute psychiatric hospital to be licensed in California in 30 years.
The hospital began accepting patients in December, but it is still adding staff and medical personnel. At full capacity, the facility will have 375-plus employees and providers.
More information can be found in the Sacramento Bee, here. (paywall)
Published: February 8, 2022
Weintraub is pleased to announce that Carlena L. Tapella and Shaun Gordon have been elected shareholders in the Firm.
Published: February 4, 2022
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
As March approaches, we are poised to hit the two-year anniversary of California’s March 4, 2020, State of Emergency Proclamation relating to the COVID-19 health crisis. In the months that followed, we watched federal, state, and local governments adopt myriad laws, rules, emergency orders, proclamations, declarations, ordinances, and mandates, creating a patchwork of rules and regulations for commercial real estate that defied generalization or statewide compliance practices. The market may never look exactly like it did before COVID-19 (note our last article: to-go alcoholic drinks are here to stay!). As concern over the virus appears to be waning, we are seeing jurisdictions generally, but not uniformly, remove their COVID-19 commercial tenant eviction protections*. We therefore thought it would be appropriate to highlight a few of the notable policies which are in effect in some of California’s markets. Of course, most of the rules listed below have exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions, so please consult your local laws (or counsel) before proceeding.
Published: February 3, 2022
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Scott M. Hervey
The IP Law Blog
INTERPROFESSION DU GRUYÈRE, et al., v. U.S. DAIRY EXPORT COUNCIL, et al., twas all about exclusive right to control the use of Gruyere for cheeses in the US. This case began with a 2015 application by Interprofession du Gruyère, a Swiss registered association, and Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Gruyère , a French syndicat for a certification mark GRUYERE. A certification mark is used to certify regional or other origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of goods or services or that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization. So, for example, the mark ROQUEFORT is used to certify cheese that comes from a specific municipality in France; UL or Underwriters Laboratories certifies, among other things, representative samplings of electrical equipment meeting certain safety standard.
Published: February 2, 2022
Weintraub Tobin is pleased to announce that Managing Shareholder Gary L. Bradus has been recognized as a 2022 Most Admired CEO by the Sacramento Business Journal.
As Managing Shareholder/CEO of Weintraub, Gary coordinates Firm leadership while managing a high-level corporate and banking legal practice. Along with the Firm’s executive board, he has steered Weintraub through the many phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: February 1, 2022
In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo provide an update on the legal dispute between fast-food chain Jack in the Box and cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
On March 30, 2022, Labor & Employment attorney Ryan Abernethy presented the seminar titled Return to Work Guidance for California Employers for the Financial Executives International’s Sacramento Chapter.
Published: January 28, 2022
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James Kachmar
The Labor & Employment Law Blog
Our Blog has been monitoring the ETS that OSHA issued in November 2021 that mandated employers of 100 or more employees to require their employees to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations or undergo regular COVID-19 testing instead. We have kept you informed as this ETS made its way through the courts. First, implementation of the ETS was stayed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (see blog on 11/18/2021), then the stay was lifted by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (see blog on 12/20/2021), and finally, argument was held before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ordered that the stay be put back in place after a majority of the Court found that OSHA had exceeded its authority in issuing the ETS (see blog on 12/23/2021 and blog on 1/13/2022). (Please note the Court let stand the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for certain healthcare workers.)
Published: January 27, 2022
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
After surviving holiday family dinners, a few-too-many champagne toasts, and a record-breaking snowstorm, this team is ready to turn its sights to a new year and the exciting projects that are in store. To kick off our 2022 newsletter season (and hopefully in better fashion than the Sacramento Kings), we thought it would be helpful to summarize a few of California’s noteworthy new-for-2022 laws.[1] There aren’t any earth-shattering changes that will require substantial deviation to standard operating procedures, but some represent new requirements that will need to be considered in upcoming projects.