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		<title>9th Circuit Ruling Issued In Midst Of Debate Over Federal Agency &#8220;Sue-and-Settle&#8221; Tactics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Lammi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complying with notice-and-comment and other due process requirements is expensive and time-consuming for federal agencies. Those procedural duties also make agencies accountable to the public and regulated entities. So it&#8217;s no surprise that regulators avoid formal rulemaking like the plague. As we&#8217;ve spotlighted at The Legal Pulse, agencies instead  issue &#8220;guidance&#8221; documents or utilize even more [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5821&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WLF &#8220;In All Fairness&#8221; Advertorial Appears in National Edition of New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its Eating Away Our Freedoms project, Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today placed an advertorial on the op-ed page of the National Edition of The New York Times. WLF first debuted its &#8220;In All Fairness&#8221; advertorial column in 1998 in The Times, and it has appeared on the newspaper&#8217;s op-ed page over 150 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5831&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imposing Weight-Loss Guidelines: Another Function of ObamaCare?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Lammi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted at WLF&#8217;s contributor page at Forbes.com The federal Affordable Care Act, better known as &#8220;ObamaCare,&#8221; may provide activists and government a little-known wedge to advance their obesity agendas through regulated health-care providers — specifically America&#8217;s nearly 3,000 non-profit hospitals. One organization, The STOP Obesity Alliance, recently identified this wedge as a way to have such [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5810&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WLF Web Seminar Program Spotlights Physician Payment Sunshine Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Legal Foundation hosted a Web Seminar program yesterday, Physician Payments in the “Sunshine”: Implications of CMS Regulations for Businesses and the Future of American Health Care. Speakers James Stansel and Meenakshi Datta of Sidley Austin LLP delved into the complicated and often vague data collection and reporting mandates required under the Physician Payment Sunshine [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5804&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Circuit Affirms ITC&#8217;s Determination on Sec. 337 Domestic Industry Litigation Expenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Commentary by Emi Ito Ortiz, Adduci, Mastriani &#38; Schaumberg, L.L.P. On May 13, 2013, in Motiva, LLC v. U.S. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 12-1252 (Fed. Cir. May 13, 2013), the Federal Circuit affirmed the International Trade Commission&#8217;s determination that a complainant failed to satisfy the domestic industry requirement of Section 337 based on litigation [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5795&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Observations: &#8220;Blame-the-Bean&#8221; Defense Fails in Bowman v. Monsanto</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2013/05/13/supreme-court-observations-blame-the-bean-defense-fails-in-bowman-v-monsanto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Commentary by Thomas M. Haas, Thompson Hine LLP In a short, unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that the doctrine of patent exhaustion “does not permit a farmer to reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder’s permission.” (Bowman v. Monsanto) Thus, for the time being, the Supreme Court [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5789&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want Clarity on Software Patents?: Skip CLS Bank Int’l Opinion and Wait for Supreme Court Review</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2013/05/13/want-clarity-on-software-patents-skip-cls-bank-intl-opinion-and-wait-for-supreme-court-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Featured Regular Expert Column Beth Z. Shaw, Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP In January, I wrote a WLF Legal Opinion Letter entitled CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp.: Clearer Software Patent Guidance?, which asked if clear software patent guidance would emerge from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s en banc review of CLS [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5782&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selected WLF Blog Commentaries to Appear on Coca-Cola &#8220;Unbottled&#8221; Blog</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2013/05/13/selected-wlf-blog-commentaries-to-appear-on-coca-cola-unbottled-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning with a May 10 cross-posting of a March 18 Legal Pulse post, Desperate to Foment New Regulations &#38; Lawsuits, Activists Ratchet Up “Food Addiction” Campaign, the Coca-Cola Company will be publishing occasional Washington Legal Foundation blog posts at is &#8220;Unbottled&#8221; blog. According to the company, &#8220;Coca-Cola Unbottled looks beyond what’s in the bottle, featuring globally [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5778&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Class Action Settlement in Kellogg Food Labeling Case Preliminarily Approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer in the Legal Pulse post The Ninth Circuit Rains on Plaintiffs’ Attorneys’ Class Action Pay Day, Washington Legal Foundation K.K.Legett Fellow Lauren Murphree described the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s rejection of a class action settlement in Dennis v. Kellogg Co. Mr. Dennis and countless other fans of Frosted Mini-Wheats claimed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5773&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Ninth Circuit Ruling a Final End to Copyright &#8220;Troll&#8217;s&#8221; Legal Charade?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly two years ago, in a Legal Pulse post and a WLF Legal Opinion Letter, we discussed the strong judicial response to the copyright litigation scheme pursued by a company called Righthaven LLC. Righthaven was created at the behest of newspaper-owning media company Stephens Media as a vehicle to sue bloggers and other online information [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&#038;blog=12924779&#038;post=5770&#038;subd=wlflegalpulse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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