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Bowditch & Dewey
On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court upended the online retail industry, giving states the power to force online retailers to collect sales tax from sales to consumers.
Dickinson Wright PLLC
Just as U.S. companies were settling into the idea of the EU's General Protection Act, California just passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 et seq...
Dickinson Wright PLLC
The Trump Administration's trade dispute with China widened this week when the Office of the US Trade Representative released a proposed list of Chinese products valued at $200 billion...
Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
October 15, 2017. That was the day celebrity Alyssa Milano (from Who's the Boss?, Melrose Place and Charmed) tweeted "If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write "me too" as a reply to this tweet."
Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is seeking for Fiscal Year 2019 almost $12.7 million less than it was allotted in 2018.
Kuck Baxter Immigration
Now that we know TPS is ending for Hondurans and El Salvadorans, it is essential that correct information about options be available.
Davis & Gilbert
The Supreme Court recently issued a 5-4 ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, overturning a 1992 Supreme Court decision in Quill v. North Dakota, that will now allow states to collect tax on internet sales...
Collins & Lacy, P.C.
Justice John Cannon Few issued the opinion for the majority.
Polsinelli LLP
In a 5-4 decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, No. 16-285, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of class and collective actions waivers in arbitration agreements.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
The CFTC unanimously approved proposed regulatory amendments intended to simplify obligations imposed on a self-regulatory organization (SRO) when carrying out its...
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Marc McGovern, the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts (home to many of the Commonwealth's established and emerging pharmaceutical, biotech, and other life sciences companies)...
Ford & Harrison LLP
Executive Summary: The introduction of ride-hailing apps has upended the taxi and for-hire car industry in New York City. What began with a promise of independence ...
Reed Smith
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) released version 2.0 of the ANA Master Media Buying Services Agreement.
Dentons
As we noted previously, the IRS announced in March that it will end its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) on September 28, 2018. Under OVDP, a taxpayer with undisclosed foreign assets or income...
Fisher Phillips LLP
Although legal tests for determining employment status have taken center stage with numerous recent high-profile cases, lurking in the background is a question that may also have implications...
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
In a recent opinion, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin rejected the "inference method" of causation that the Labor and Industry Review Commission has used for more than two decades to find liability ...
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The SEC charged an individual from Virginia as a co-conspirator in a scheme to manipulate the price of certain issuer securities.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research ("OFR") proposed a rule to require data collection that covers centrally cleared transactions in the U.S. repurchase agreement market.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order instructing the Attorney General ("AG") to establish a Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud (the "Task Force").
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
A Barcelona-based media firm entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ related to the alleged bribery of Caribbean Football Union ("CFU") ...
Immigration.ca
July 11, 2018 – The first Canada Express Entry draw of July saw immigration authorities issue Invitations to Apply to 3,750 candidates.
The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System score of 442, just two above the 2018 low of 440 for an all-program draw.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
On February 6, 2018, Seyfarth Shaw Partner Jerry Maatman and Bloomberg Law Senior Legal Editor Perry Cooper presented a timely event on "Top Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation Panel Discussion."
Arnold & Porter
If there was ever a regulatory grace period for virtual currencies and blockchain technology, it is officially over.
McLane Middleton, Professional Association
I recently found out that one of my employees has been sharing his salary with other employees and posting it on his Facebook page.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
In our sister blog, Privacy and Security Matters, Cynthia Larose and Brian Lam discuss a new California privacy law passed on June 28, 2018 ...
Mayer Brown
As we discussed in a prior post, Commissioner Jackson has spoken out on transactions undertaken by public company executives in close proximity to their companies' stock buybacks.
Troutman Sanders LLP
Three recent FERC staff decisions ("Decisions") confirm that, for purposes of establishing the mandatory licensing requirements under the Federal Power Act ("FPA") ...
Davis & Gilbert
The California legislature has passed, and Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law, a bill known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ...
Jones Day
Technology has transformed the way that directors receive and review information and communicate with each other and with management.
Mayer Brown
The use of social media raises many securities law and compliance challenges for issuers, broker-dealers, and investment advisers.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") issued the results of its yearly Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review ("CCAR"). CCAR is an assessment of the capital adequacy...
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
As we wrote when the law passed, South Dakota now has a data breach notification law, making it the last state to have a data breach notification statute on the books.
Holland & Knight
New York employers must prepare to provide required sexual harassment training to employees.
Davis & Gilbert
Observing the rising tide of borrower delinquencies in subprime auto lending, I'm reminded of that famous outburst by the former NFL coach, Dennis Green.
Pryor Cashman LLP
Following her September 2017 appearance on CNBC's "Nightly Business Report," Partner Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme returned to the program for a segment exploring ways to identify and avoid scams involving intellectual property.
Dickinson Wright PLLC
In its "2017 Year in Review", the Fraud Section in the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice announced the launch of its Health Care Fraud Unit's Data Analytics Team.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
On March 20, 2018, the Wolfsberg Group published a set of Frequently Asked Questions on financial crime country risk.
Anderson Kill
Opioid producers and distributors have turned
to their insurance companies for relief from
litigation,
triggering a fierce fight.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
A former Equifax employee agreed to settle SEC charges of trading on material nonpublic information. The case is similar to one brought earlier this year ...
Dickinson Wright PLLC
Many applicable large employers received an unpleasant surprise earlier this year when they received Letter 226-J, which imposed an employer shared responsibility payment (ESRP) ...
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Arnold & Porter
If there was ever a regulatory grace period for virtual currencies and blockchain technology, it is officially over.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
On February 6, 2018, Seyfarth Shaw Partner Jerry Maatman and Bloomberg Law Senior Legal Editor Perry Cooper presented a timely event on "Top Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation Panel Discussion."
McLane Middleton, Professional Association
I recently found out that one of my employees has been sharing his salary with other employees and posting it on his Facebook page.
Dickinson Wright PLLC
In its "2017 Year in Review", the Fraud Section in the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice announced the launch of its Health Care Fraud Unit's Data Analytics Team.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
On March 20, 2018, the Wolfsberg Group published a set of Frequently Asked Questions on financial crime country risk.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
On June 5, the private body of web accessibility experts called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published its update to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 ...
Shearman & Sterling LLP
On 29 November 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a revised Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ...
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Other recent SEC enforcement actions include proceedings dated January 18 and January 30, each revoking a registration of securities after the respective registrants failed to file several periodic reports.
BakerHostetler
On Dec. 5, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with three defendants who it alleged partook in deceptive, abusive and unfair debt collection practices ...
K&L Gates
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is facing scrutiny on its handling of a data breach that occurred in 2016 – but was only publicly disclosed on 20 September 2017.
