Top 10 Consumer, Health and Family Headlines from All Regions Health Alert is a summary of the critical judgments, legislation, press releases and news items which have come to our attention each week. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") was approved by the House on June 30, 2010, and by the Senate on July 15, 2010. The bill is expected to be signed into law by President Obama. In its 2008 decision in Omega v. Costco, the Ninth Circuit held that the "first-sale" doctrine of copyright law does not apply to goods manufactured and first sold abroad. Health Alert is a summary of the critical judgments, legislation, press releases and news items which have come to our attention each week The national competition regulator, the ACCC, has begun to flex its muscles and for the first time has exercised its new power to "name and shame" businesses which it suspects have misled the public and pose a real threat to unsuspecting consumers. In the first post-Geertson decision dealing with the environmental impact of genetically modified crops and the remedies available to impacted plaintiffs, a federal district judge in the Northern District of California recently vacated the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) decision to deregulate (or approve for planting) genetically modified sugar beet seeds. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Australia’s peak regulatory body overseeing the communications and media industries, is turning up the heat on spam with the launch of its new reporting tool, Spam SMS. The Fair Work Act 2009 has significantly amended the Federal Government’s previous approach to an employee’s entitlement to take leave upon the birth of a child. Suppliers need to be careful in drafting retention of title ("ROT") clauses to ensure they operate as intended. When making payment, financiers ought identify the goods to which a payment relates to avoid disputes. On July 5, 2010, the European Commission adopted a retail market monitoring report identifying the key issues that potentially hamper a more efficient and fairer retail services industry within the EU. | 
