The non-disclosure provision of a routine employment settlement agreement has typically been a common and easily agreed-upon term of resolution. These provisions—where the employer and employee agree not to publicly discuss the reasons for the...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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Austin, San Antonio and now Dallas have joined an ever-growing number of American cities passing paid sick leave ordinances. Though Austin was the first to adopt such an ordinance, in November 2018 Texas’ Third Court of Appeals deemed the ordinance...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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Overturning prior PTAB precedent, the Federal Circuit has now held that post-facto business mergers that create a new real-party-in-interest (“RPI”) trigger the one-year bar date for filing IPR petitions on patents asserted in litigation against the...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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Effective January 1, 2020, employers may put aside pre-tax funds into a health reimbursement arrangement (“HRA”) that can be used by an employee to pay for premiums and other out-of-pocket costs related to the purchase of an individual health...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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“Success in creating [Artificial Intelligence] would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” It’s almost as if Stephen Hawking, when he made that statement in 2014,...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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A sales employee suffers from acute stress and anxiety, which ultimately force him to take a 12-week medical leave of absence under the FMLA. Later that year, when the employer considers bonuses, the employee does not receive one because he failed...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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