Commercial Litigation Update

For more than a decade, California courts have wrestled with the challenge of how to resolve disputes over the authenticity of electronically signed arbitration agreements.

While the State Supreme Court has not yet offered conclusive guidance, decisions by the State’s various appellate courts offer insight into what factors a court is likely to consider.

As we have noted before, the holding in Epic Systems v. Lewis contributed to a proliferation of arbitration agreements with class and collective action waivers. Our prior analysis predicted certain datapoints one should ...

On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced a new task force to address “pressing antitrust problems in health care markets.” This new initiative, named the Task Force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion (“HCMC”), will focus on DOJ’s view that there are “widespread competition concerns shared by patients, health care professionals, businesses and entrepreneurs, including issues regarding payer-provider consolidation, serial acquisitions, labor and quality of care, medical billing, health care IT ...