On June 16, 2022, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published its first annual report regarding the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (the NSI Act). The report solely covers the period from January 4, 2022 (i.e., the date the NSI Act came into force) to March 31, 2022. Nevertheless, the report ...

On April 28, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, holding that, taking facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, defendant Kineticflix LLC did not violate plaintiff Alla Anatoleyvna Zorikova’s copyright when Kineticflix rented physical copies of Zorikova’s ballet instructional DVD. The ...

Across the country and the Commonwealth, people are struggling to find affordable housing. A new report from the state’s Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission says Virginia is short at least 200,000 affordable rental units. Soaring rent prices are forcing a growing number of people to think twice about where home is. “They keep going ...