Alex E. Jones | Feb 19, 2021 | Articles, Corporate & Securities
Earlier this year, Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which will require certain small businesses to identify and disclose information about their owners. While the purpose of the law is to help stop money laundering (by inhibiting the abuse of... Alex E. Jones | Mar 12, 2020 | Articles, eCommerce
Four House members recently co-sponsored proposed legislation, the Shop Safe Act of 2020, that would hold companies like Amazon, eBay and other e-commerce websites liable for counterfeit goods sold on their marketplaces. This comes on the heels of a recent report from... Alex E. Jones | Feb 7, 2020 | Articles, Cyber Security & Data Breach
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) went into effect; however, enforcement does not begin until July 1, 2020. The CCPA is a broad-sweeping, comprehensive consumer privacy law (akin to the GDPR passed by the EU in 2016) that... Alex E. Jones | Nov 7, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce
Increasingly, manufacturers and brands are implementing a minimum advertised price policy (or a MAP policy) for the resale of their products. In its most basic form, a MAP policy is simple – it is a policy that governs the minimum price at which a reseller may... Alex E. Jones | Jul 26, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce
The Third Circuit recently ruled that Amazon could be held liable for defective products sold by the third-party sellers on Amazon.com. This is particularly noteworthy because not only does it mark the first court to find Amazon liable for products sold by third-party... 