Stacy Stitham and David Swetnam-Burland Pen MaineBiz Guest Column on State Privacy Laws

On May 1, 2023, MaineBiz published a guest column (subscription required) by partners Stacy O. Stitham and David Swetnam-Burland on what Maine businesses need to know about new state privacy laws. Although Maine has not passed its own privacy statute, many other states, including California, Virginia, and Colorado, have enacted new laws intended to apply...

Martin Eisenstein and David Swetnam-Burland Present to National Association of Presort Mailers on Tax and Privacy Issues

On February 17, 2021, managing partner Martin Eisenstein and partner David Swetnam-Burland presented a webinar at the Virtual Annual Conference of the National Association of Presort Mailers (NAPM), moderated by Hamilton Davison of the American Catalog Mailers Association. In the Sales Tax and Data Privacy Update, Eisenstein talked about key issues in state sales tax...

Nat Bessey Discusses California Privacy Laws in Boston CityBizList Article

Partner Nat Bessey’s article, “As Online Shopping Grows, California Extends the Scope of its Privacy Laws (Again),” appeared on Boston CityBizList on January 26, 2021. In the piece, Bessey discusses California’s latest consumer privacy law, the California Privacy Rights Act, passed in November on top of the recently enacted California Consumer Privacy Act. Bessey suggests...

B&I Attorney Presents at ACMA Webinar on California Consumer Privacy Act

On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, B&I partner David Swetnam-Burland participated in a webinar sponsored by the American Catalog Mailers Association on the “California Consumer Privacy Act: Are You Fully Prepared?” Swetnam-Burland spoke to a diverse group of catalog retailers and related businesses on the compliance requirements of the first-of-its-kind state privacy law; what businesses and...

Mailers Hub Article Highlights CCPA Compliance Issues for Mail Producers

In the first of a new, regular series of articles for Mailers Hub News, B&I attorneys Martin I. Eisenstein, David Swetnam-Burland, Stacy O. Stitham, and Jamie Szal reminded mail producers, “Ready or Not, the California Consumer Privacy Act Is Here” (at page 3). Their article provides an overview of the CCPA and the numerous and...

To Be Or Not To Be: Standing In Invasion of Privacy Cases

In the case of Frank v. Gaos, argued before the United States Supreme Court on October 31, 2018, oral argument took an unexpected turn, leading the Justices to direct the parties (and the Solicitor General) to brief the question of whether any named plaintiff had standing, i.e., whether they were in fact injured, in a...

Nevada Privacy Law Goes Into Effect October 1

What happens in Vegas, may now indeed need to stay in Vegas.  Although California’s sweeping new privacy law has dominated the headlines, other states are enacting their own, different privacy laws, and it’s important to understand the differences. Partner Stacy Stitham identifies some things we should know about the new Nevada privacy law.

Martin Eisenstein, David Bertoni, and David Swetnam-Burland Speak at American Catalog Mailers Association Conference

Brann & Isaacson attorneys addressed members of the American Catalog Mailers Association at its annual conference in Washington, DC, from April 8-10, 2019. On April 8, managing partner Martin Eisenstein spoke to the conference in a panel called, “It’s a Wayfair World Now and We All Have to Live In It.” Eisenstein discussed the state...