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Last week, California residents voted against the expansion of local rent control measures. According to votes tallied as of the date of this post, more than 60% of voters voted [...]

Colorado continues to expand on recent legislative efforts to address the state's housing shortage. On May 30, 2024, Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 1316 to establish a new Middle-Income [...]

Companies throughout the ad tech ecosystem are reckoning with the fact that, due to the revised definition of 'business purpose' in the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amends the [...]

U.S. state privacy laws are multiplying at a dizzying rate. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, which came into effect on January 1, 2023, will be followed by the Colorado [...]

After leading the charge to enact the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and changing the landscape of data privacy in the United States, Alastair Mactaggart, Board Chair and Founder of [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert Prior to the beginning of spring semester, a petition calling for increased COVID-19 precautions in light of the spread of the highly-virulent omicron variant began circulating, ultimately [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert Additional reporting for this article done by News Editors Annabelle Wang and Lucy Brewster. Making good on her promise to deliver a decision on spring sports around [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert January 6, 2021. A day that will forever live in infamy began as late-night tallying of the vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs extended into early morning. [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert The last time the New York Mets made the World Series was in 2015, led by a youthful starting rotation that promised to erase years of mediocrity--in [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert In this day and age, everything is political. It is damn near impossible to say anything without planting yourself firmly on one of two incredibly-far-apart sides, each [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert Picture this. You're an NBA player, exhausted in the fourth quarter of a long game at the end of a long road trip. The hotels were mediocre, [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert On a bright, sunny summer day less than a year after a norm-defying election that profoundly shook my faith in humanity, I got uncomfortable at a Yankees [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert Stat of the week: 1.13, the average number of 60-game stretches per season in which a player hit .400 or higher. In the 79 years since Ted [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert Under the bright lights at Yankee Stadium, the home team enjoys raucous applause for every hit and strikeout in their favor. When the players first take the [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert The last few months have been tumultuous, but the sea of new music released in and around this time has provided many a reprieve from the chaos. [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert It was really happening. The Bleacher Report notification, with its obnoxious breaking news siren icon, glared at me from my phone's home screen: 'MLB Cancels Spring Training, [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert Black Americans have waited far too long for justice, and they cannot afford to wait any longer. There has been some progress, such as the advent of [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert More than a few interesting questions loom over the 2020 baseball season. Last year, the dynamic Houston Astros won 100 games for the third time in a [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert What comes to mind when you hear the word 'Vassar?' For me and many other students, the words 'home,' 'community' and other fuzzy descriptors pop up as [...]

Byline: Alex Eisert The erosion of our country's pandemic response resources started a while ago, when President Donald Trump named John Bolton his National Security Adviser in the spring of [...]

As further evidence of the SEC's resistance to the development of a regulated secondary market in bitcoin, on August 12 it delayed making a decision on three additional bitcoin exchange-traded [...]

Last week, the Staffs of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) (collectively, the Staffs) released a Joint Statement concerning the application of the [...]

With approximately six months remaining before the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) comes into effect, businesses that operate a website or an online service now have another privacy law that [...]

The California legislature continues to legislate in the privacy realm. In recent weeks, it passed two bills that would impose privacy obligations on manufacturers of 'connected devices' and one bill [...]

The California legislature has passed, and Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law, a bill known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the 'Act'), which imposes significant privacy-related [...]

While both technologies still show great potential, the pace of evolution and rate of adoption of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) began to diverge in 2017. VR continued [...]

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable on May 25, yet some U.S.-based ad tech companies still seem to believe (or hope) that it will not impact [...]

Two significant interest-based advertising (IBA) developments have recently come out of the Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program (Accountability Program), which enforces the principles set forth by the Digital Advertising Alliance [...]

Byline: Emily Eisert Under eerie red lights, Agnes Eggling, played by freshman Madison Michles, tentatively welcomed the Devil (Herr Swetts), played by freshman Chase Woods, in A Bright Room Called [...]

Byline: Emily Eisert You may have eaten your Pit omelet this morning by a mannequin made of tape or noticed the tombstones recently displayed near the Shorty's outdoor patio. Professor [...]

Article by Howard S. Altarescu and Edward Eisert Recently, with increasing frequency, questions have been posed regarding the responsibilities of bank regulated entities ('Bank Entities') with respect to their 'third-party [...]

Authored by Edward Eisert On June 1, 2017, Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') Chairman Jay Clayton issued a statement (the 'Statement') soliciting public comments from retail investors and other interested [...]

Article by Edward Eisert On May 17, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ('CFTC') approved the creation of LabCFTC, which it describes as 'a new initiative aimed at promoting responsible [...]

By Edward Eisert Earlier this month, the SEC Division of Investment Management issued guidance with respect to situations in which an operating company may find that, upon the occurrence of [...]

Authored by Edward Eisert On February 23, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') published information and guidance for investors and the financial services industry on the use of robo-advisers, [...]

The decision by a federal jury in Dallas, Texas, to award $500 million to the plaintiffs in a case involving virtual reality (VR) technology - despite the jury's conclusion that [...]

Authored by Edward Eisert On February 16, 2017, the New York Department of Financial Institutions ('DFS') promulgated a regulation that requires 'Covered Entities' to establish and maintain a cybersecurity program [...]

Only days before the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) was set to begin enforcing its cross-device guidance (see, ' Enforcement of DAA Cross-Device Guidance to Begin on February 1, 2017'), the [...]

On October 24, Staff in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (the 'Staff') issued a National Exam Program Risk Alert announcing that it is examining registered investment advisers and [...]

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has announced that enforcement of its cross-device guidance will begin on February 1, 2017. Background As we discussed in our Alert last November (' New [...]

On October 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules under Title III of the JOBS Act ('Regulation Crowdfunding') to permit a company to offer and sell securities through [...]

On October 3, 2016, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ('FINRA') and the Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC')'s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an Investor Alert announcing a new [...]

On September 14, 2016, Governor Jerry Brown approved an amendment to the California Government Code, effective January 1, 2017, that requires a 'public investment fund,' defined to mean 'any fund [...]

On August 25, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Form ADV that are designed to provide additional information regarding advisers, including information about their separately managed [...]

On August 12, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court of New Jersey and held in United States v. [...]

On July 19, 2016, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ('FinCEN') issued FAQs regarding the customer due diligence requirements ('CDD') that it published on May 11, 2016, for certain financial institutions, [...]

On June 22, 2016, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published for public consultation Proposed Policy Recommendations to Address Structural Vulnerabilities from Asset Management Activities. The document sets out 14 proposed [...]

Section 205(a)(1) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the 'Advisers Act') generally prohibits an investment adviser from entering into, extending, renewing, or performing any investment advisory contract that provides [...]

On April 25, 2016, the Staff of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a no-action letter that provides that it would not recommend enforcement [...]

2015 saw the continued rise of programmatic buying and cross-device tracking, as well as the continued focus on related concerns such as ad fraud and privacy compliance. These trends will [...]