On April 15, 2019 Governor Evers signed Executive Order #20, creating the Joint Enforcement Task Force on Payroll Fraud and Worker Misclassification. The Task Force is intended to address issues of worker misclassification,...

• California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has posted a fact sheet regarding styrene on its Proposition 65 warning website,...

Well, we’ve been humongously busy, but c’est la vie. One stop we made was to the conference of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in Philadelphia. Donald Macomber was also there from the AG’s office, and there were lots of solid...

Florida’s HB 1243, with its proposed reporting requirements that would have directly affected timelines for health care transactions, particularly those involving hospitals or medical practices with four or more physicians, was withdrawn from...

The second largest consumer tax preparer in the United States has just been hit with a lawsuit filed by former employees alleging a “no-poach” conspiracy between the company and its franchisees, according to a complaint filed in New Jersey...

Section 12(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 covers two types of civil liability.  Section 12(a)(1) concerns violations of Section 5 which imposes registration and prospectus delivery requirements on the offer and sale of securities.  Section 12(a...

In a post-trial Memorandum Opinion, Neil Smith and NTS, LLC v. Promontory Financial Group, LLC and Promontory Growth and Innovation, LLC, C.A. No. 11255-VCG (Del. Ch. April 30, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery rejected both the...

Last August, we wrote about a Chicago ordinance requiring hotel employers to, among other things, equip...

Employers with mandatory arbitration agreements should be careful to re-affirm their commitment to such arbitration agreements in light of a recent state court decision in Texas, ...

John Schnatter’s falling-out with Papa John’s, the company he founded in the back of his father’s bar in Louisville, Kentucky, has been highly publicized since the dispute began in late 2017. Now, the Delaware Court of Chancery...

On April 26, 2019, the two chambers of the Washington Legislature passed Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1450(“HB 1450” or...

From time to time corporate attorneys consider ...

The Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFML) provides eligible workers with paid medical and family leave benefits effective Jan. 1, 2021. See July 2018 GT Alert ...

This alert focuses on Florida governmental entities that provide benefits to firefighters. Newly adopted Florida Statutes chapter 112.1816, scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2019, provides additional minimum benefits to certain firefighters...

On May 3, 2019, the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) granted Central Maine Power Company’s (CMP) request for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) to construct the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC), a clean...

As a resident of Weld County, I can tell you that there are sometimes stark contrasts between Weld and Boulder Counties.  Although neighbors, the two counties have very different views – and I do not mean of the mountains. 

One of the...

California employers were dealt another setback in the responding to claims of misclassification of independent contractor status for violations of the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order (“IWC Wage Orders”). Noting California’s “basic legal...