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As predicted, the flood of website accessibility lawsuits is continuing in the first months of 2020  after the U.S. Supreme Court late last year declined to weigh in on whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to the websites of...By: McAfee & Taft

Seyfarth Synopsis: In a recent Chief Counsel Memorandum (“CCM”), the IRS stated that on audit, agents should pursue plan disqualification for a failure to produce a signed plan document. The IRS was responding to a 2018 Tax Court decision that held...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Land Use, Telecommunications, Environmental and More - As noted in Part I of this two-part series, California lawmakers passed a number of new laws last year that greatly impact how public agencies serve their constituents. Originally published in...By: Best Best & Krieger LLP

Following the lead of other courts around the country, a Pennsylvania state court has held that employees can bring lawsuits against their employers asserting claims under the state’s medical marijuana law. Palmiter v. Commonwealth Health Systems,...By: Littler

It’s no secret that many employers have employees sign arbitration agreements with class and collective action waivers in the hopes of avoiding the massive wage-hour lawsuits that have become so prevalent in the past two decades....By: Epstein Becker & Green

President Trump and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued proposed regulations on January 10, 2020 to modify the regulatory program for the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), that requires federal agencies consider...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Dealmakers are placing more emphasis on sustainability in the context of their investment practices. This is occurring despite a lack of US federal regulation on companies' sustainability reporting....By: White & Case LLP

On January 7, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor published three new opinion letters that every employer should review. The first involves an employer’s nondiscretionary bonus payment of $3,000 given to employees who completed ten weeks of training...By: Stokes Wagner

This edition of Employment Flash looks at recent NLRB activity, including its decision (overruling an Obama-era decision) regarding confidentiality rules for employees during ongoing workplace investigations. We also discuss other U.S. federal and...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air! Many people meet their significant other in the workplace. However, according to Pat Benatar in her famous rock song, Love is a Battlefield. So, how can employers avoid getting caught in the battlefield of...By: Jaburg Wilk