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Privacy Legislation: What to Know From 2024 and Predictions for 2025 on September 18, 2024
The consumer privacy landscape is rapidly changing, with several states enacting new laws this year that could significantly impact how businesses collect and use personal information in a number of states. -
Family Office Tax Webinar Series: Salt on the Wound: Navigating State and Local Taxation of Modern Trusts on June 6, 2024
Taxes can have a significant impact on family offices, influencing decisions around structure, investing and overall planning strategies. -
Settlement deal: Apple to start charging Chicago streaming tax on nearly all products in Sept.; City to not seek back taxes
Apple had called the city's so-called "Netflix tax" unconstitutional, but opted to settle its lawsuit in July -
Apple drops bid to delete city of Chicago's 'Netflix tax' on streaming entertainment services
After a judge rejected their arguments earlier this spring, Apple opted to quit the episode, rather than continue to try to resume their lawsuit claiming the city's 9% amusement tax was unconstitutional and illegal -
Appeals panel: Indiana surgeon can press antitrust claims vs IU Health for 'monopolizing' Bloomington market
A vascular surgeon said IU Health revoked his hospital privileges as part of alleged scheme to leverage massive market presence to pressure him when he refused to end independent practice -
Breaking Fintech’s Glass Ceiling: Women in Fintech Networking Series on April 20, 2022
Breaking Fintech’s Glass Ceiling: Women in Fintech Networking Series on April 20, 2022. -
MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP: Possibilities and Pitfalls: Reimbursement and Regulatory Issues
Through the groundbreaking creation and rapid development of cutting-edge diagnostic and treatments solutions that significantly improve patient outcomes for cancer and other conditions, precision medicine has, and will continue to, dramatically transform healthcare. -
State of IL suffered no money loss, but estate still OK to sue former employer in state's name for alleged insurance fraud
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled a whistleblower's bankruptcy estate can sue her former employer though she never suffered from the alleged fraud, nor did the state government lose any money. -
MCDERMOTT WILL EMERY: Virtual International Tax Forum | Tei Chicago Chapter
Please join us on Tuesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 19 for the annual TEI International Tax Forum, co-presented by McDermott Will & Emery and PricewaterhouseCoopers. -
MCDERMOTT WILL EMERY: Webinar: Anti-corruption and Compliance Training
Please join McDermott and Grant Thornton on Thursday, May 28, for a webinar training on anti-corruption and compliance. -
Appeals panel: Medical caregivers can't use their patients to sue the state to force Medicaid payments
Panel determines private 'consultants' don't have standing. The judges said the patients weren't harmed by the state's delay in processing caregivers' paychecks and would gain nothing from the lawsuit. -
MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP: Wage the Battle to Win the War: Expert Challenges at Class Certification
Certifying an antitrust class under Rule 23 has become a battle. -
Apple latest tech firm to challenge Chicago's 'Netflix tax,' says tax on streaming media illegal
Apple has joined a host of other tech companies suing the city of Chicago over its so-called “Netflix tax” levied on streaming media. -
Judge OKs $354M settlement of cardboard price-fixing class action; lawyers get 30 percent
A federal judge has signed off on a $354 million settlement deal to box up a years-long price fixing antitrust class action against some of the country’s largest makers of cardboard. And the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs in the action are set to take in nearly $100 million, or roughly 30 percent of the settlement fund. -
Appeals panel: Lawyer not allowed to keep $600K fee for qui tam unpaid sales tax suit vs My Pillow
A state appeals court has ruled a lawyer who had individually sued pillow maker My Pillow, ostensibly on behalf of the state of Illinois for unpaid taxes, is not allowed to keep roughly $600,000 in legal fees he had claimed as part of the litigation. -
Video game companies: City's 'Cloud Tax' can't be legally applied to online gaming, streaming
An association representing some of the biggest names in video and computer games have sued the city of Chicago, asking a judge to determine the city’s 9 percent "Cloud Tax" can’t be applied to their online streaming video game products. -
Appeals court: Chicago can't slap hotel tax on booking fees charged by Expedia, other travel sites
The city of Chicago will not be able to collect $29 million it believed it was owed by Expedia and other online travel booking sites, after a state appeals court ruled the city’s hotel taxes can’t be applied to the fees charged by the booking services. -
Consumers too far down distribution chain to press price fixing class action vs steelmakers, says judge
A group of steel makers, led by Chicago-based ArcelorMittal USA, have beaten down a class-action antitrust lawsuit filed by more than a dozen consumers, who alleged the companies schemed to raise prices for goods made with steel, by pointing out the consumers were too far down the distribution line from the steel manufacturers to claim losses. -
$30M deal to end massive price-fixing class action vs steelmakers; all settlements now total $194M
A group of about 5,500 manufacturers, metal fabricators and others who bought steel from eight American steelmakers about a decade ago have announced a $30 million deal with three of those mill operators – a settlement the parties intend would cap off a massive antitrust class action lawsuit accusing the steelmakers of manipulating supply to boost prices for their steel products. -
Serial false-claims litigant loses case vs California wine company; no 'reckless disregard' for IL tax law
A Cook County Circuit Court judge has ruled in favor of a California wine company accused of violating the Illinois False Claims Act (IFCA), saying the facts don’t support a serial litigator's claim the company acted with “reckless disregard” of its obligation to collect state taxes on shipping and handling.