Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is episode 131 of EO Radio Show. I'm surprised that in the three years and 130 episodes I've recorded for this show, I haven't yet devoted…
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/ Nonprofit Law
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and episode 130 is our 22nd in a series of "Nonprofit Quick Tip" episodes focusing on the details of state registration of nonprofit corporations…
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/ Nonprofit Law
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this episode is a “refresh” of Episode 10. It provides a checklist of considerations when organizing a new charity to provide relief in the…
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/ Nonprofit Law
On June 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), seeking to promote housing projects in a state that desperately needs them. Much of the…
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/ Environmental Law, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Starting on Jan. 3, 2026, warning requirements for vinyl acetate can be enforced under California’s Proposition 65, which is commonly referred to as “Prop 65.” The California agency charged with implementing Prop 65, the Office…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
Most of the headlines about AI misuse in legal filings involve non-existent cases hallucinated by AI systems used in brief writing without cite checking. Attorneys relying on generative AI systems have been sanctioned after…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services, Professional Malpractice, Science, Computers, & Technology
Fighting knock-offs in the fashion industry is notoriously difficult. Copyright, trademark, and trade dress laws offer some protection for branding and marketing materials used to sell fashion products, as well as for expressive…
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/ Business Torts, Intellectual Property
The Trump administration issued an executive order on July 7, 2025, titled Ending Market‑Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign‑Controlled Energy Sources, aimed at accelerating implementation of the recently enacted One…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Taxation
Within the same week, two judges in the Northern District of California issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company’s scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The recent ruling in a lawsuit against Anthropic highlights a growing complexity in how courts are approaching fair use in the context of AI training. Judge William Alsup held that developing Anthropic’s Claude model was…
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/ Civil Remedies, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is offering financial incentives to individuals (not companies) who report antitrust violations connected to the United States Postal Service…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Criminal Law, Government Contracting
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. In the aftermath of the truly horrific 100-year flood event in Texas, as the floodwaters ebb and the long haul of recovery begins, the local and national community is…
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/ Nonprofit Law
In the linked article about a trademark dispute, the author notes that the plaintiff claimed the defendant used a “copyrighted name.” Just a reminder: one can patent inventions, copyright creative works of expression, and…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property
EPA has been granted a fourth abeyance of pending litigation related to the Biden administration’s designation of PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
We've seen repeated issues where lawyers and others have been caught failing to cite check their work. In what might be a first, a judge has relied on a submission including support that doesn't exist and was likely hallucinated…
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/ Civil Procedure, Family Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
