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Nov 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum |J. Philip Nester
Global transportation and logistics services can amount to some of the largest expenses, and even the largest single contracts by spend, for enterprises with high traffic volumes. Among mature buyers and sellers of goods the common practice is to contract for services rather than buying on the spot market under ad hoc supplier paperwork. Contracting under one’s own templates is both permitted under the applicable legal regimes and also a sensible approach to supply chain management.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Marc Blubaugh |Brian Cullen |Vanessa Gomez
We are now in the era of freedom of contract in the logistics arena. While contracts provide many protections to contracting parties, they can also be used offensively, to affirmatively protect legal rights. There are many common law and contractual causes of action available to transportation contracting parties (shippers, brokers, and carriers), including breach of contract, breach of covenant of good faith, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum |J. Philip Nester
Supply chain professionals across the world around navigate these extremes and their impact on the procurement or delivery of services. This article compares those key differences in legal liability regimes. Surface Transportation LiabilityThe principal surface transportation modalities are road and rail transport. For surface-based transportation providers, liability and its limitations are determined by the location where loss occurred as well as the specific mode.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Marc Blubaugh |Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum
Here is a quick summary of the material components of the Final Rule and the definitions for new terms used under OSRA 2022:1. Refusal of Cargo Space AccommodationsElements. The FMC identified three required elements for a beneficial cargo owner to establish a prima facie case under OSRA 2022 at 46 U.S.C. 41104(a)(3).
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum |Jonathan Todd
Threat Assessments for Supply ChainsCompany supply chain security efforts target three types of risks: Cyber Threats, Physical Security Threats, and Personnel Threats. This article surveys certain federal programs targeting historic and emerging threats within these risk categories together with the corresponding regulatory requirements. This simple three-part construct for assessing categories of threat applies to all asset and non-asset operations.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
beneschlaw.com | Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum
Threat Assessments for Supply Chains Company supply chain security efforts target three types of risks: Cyber Threats, Physical Security Threats, and Personnel Threats. This article surveys certain federal programs targeting historic and emerging threats within these risk categories together with the corresponding regulatory requirements. This simple three-part construct for assessing categories of threat applies to all asset and non-asset operations.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Marc Blubaugh |Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum
Here is a quick summary of the material components of the Final Rule and the definitions for new terms used under OSRA 2022: Refusal of Cargo Space AccommodationsElements.The FMC identified three required elements for a beneficial cargo owner to establish a prima facie case under OSRA 2022 at 46 U.S.C. 41104(a)(3).
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sydney Allen |Kristopher Jordan Chandler |Vanessa Gomez
The AI sector continues to experience regulatory growing pains. Tech companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new AI laws, which require more transparency in their model training. Meta, in particular, had to halt its AI expansion due to increased EU regulatory scrutiny regarding its use of public content from social media platforms to train its AI system.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kristopher Jordan Chandler |Vanessa Gomez |Megan MacCallum
The DOT’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Infrastructure is one of many federal agencies that together with the White House are drawing into sharp focus the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence. This one example signals the importance of seriously examining the commercial, compliance, and national security implications of technological advances.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Vanessa Gomez |Robert Pleines |Reed W. Sirak
Environmental regulations, including those under the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) jurisdiction, present a complex compliance challenge for vehicle fleet managers and operations departments across the country. Many of CARB’s compliance obligations are in effect today. A number of other states are adopting similar or identical requirements expanding CARB’s reach to trucking fleets nationwide.
