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Delaware courts have established rules of construction for interpreting insurance policies. Among the most basic of these rules is that clear and unequivocal policy language will be given its plain meaning; and if the language is at all ambiguous,...By: White and Williams LLP

EE Ltd v. Sir James H E Chichester [2019] UKUT 164 (LC) considers the ability of landowners to resist the imposition of rights pursuant to the Electronic Communications Code (Code) where they intend to redevelop their land. The landowner in question...By: Dentons

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service issued a set of three new final rules on August 12, 2019, that substantially revise the regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act. The new rules change the criteria...By: Perkins Coie

Many of the factors that have underpinned recent M&A activity remain in place, but concerns are mounting. Positive drivers of M&A, including the strength of the US economy, the availability of financing and the strategic imperative to consolidate or...By: White & Case LLP

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on August 12 signed into law new legislation expanding employee protections against discrimination and harassment. Among the key provisions are a lower standard for proving harassment, mandatory awards of attorneys’...By: Fenwick & West LLP

Does this situation sound familiar to you? You are a small business with a few employees. You know of other similar businesses that pay off the books and have never run into trouble. You are contemplating doing the same. You rationalize that this...By: Harris Beach PLLC

Parents’ need to attend CSE/IEP meetings of a child with a serious health condition is now considered a qualifying reason to take intermittent FMLA leave....By: Harris Beach PLLC

Earlier this year, the New Jersey Appellate Division addressed the relationship between the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, N.J.S.A. 24:6I-1 et seq., and the Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”), N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 et seq. In Wild v. Carriage...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

I’ve been to a lot of baby showers lately where it seems like the parents-to-be are showered with as much advice as they are gifts. I’ve seen this as a parent myself - people like to give parenting advice....By: Davis Brown Law Firm

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced last week that it was proposing a series of rule changes. The first and most important focuses on updating its “blocking charge” policy, as well as revising the rules surrounding the “voluntary...By: Benesch