Interesting piece in today's WSJ entitled "Seeking Fame in Apple's Sea of Apps." The article notes that Apple gets 30% of any third-party app sales, and that as of today customers had downloaded more than 1.5 billion free and paid apps.

Legal filings aggregator Justia tags cases filed in federal court with relevant keywords including "iTunes."  This makes finding new filings related to whatever keyword interests you quite simple.

Welcome to our new blog, published by lawyers Kevin Houchin and Joel Rothman.  Houchin and Rothman are better known as the attorneys who filed the now infamous iFart v.

GUEST BLOG by David A. Mark The Institute of Medicine is currently reviewing the Dietary Reference Intake value for vitamin D that last changed in 1997.

A recent study by LegalMetrics, a litigation analysis firm, named the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida among the top five districts for speed to resolution in patent infringement cases.  

Calvin Pace of the New York Jets will be sitting out the first four games of the 2009 season because he violated the National Football League's policy on doping.

Following up on a post from June 30, the question of consumer confidence in nutritional supplements arises again. The Times-Herald reports that many supplements have quality problems. 

Anne Hart has lots of questions about the quality and safety of nutritional supplements, 19 questions to be exact. They revolve around product integrity, contamination, mislabeling (think sibutramine), FDA oversight and so on. 

Manufacturers beware. Your regulatory problems may not be over when you pull a product from the store shelves. Matrixx Initiatives Inc. recalled its Zicam products on June 16 and three days later the Securities & Exchange Commission sent a letter of inquiry.

The Nutritional and Dietary Supplement Law Blog is pleased as punch to announce that Joel B. Rothman, your faithful editor and publisher, has joined the West Palm Beach office of Arnstein & Lehr LLP as a partner.