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Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 11, 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a law requiring covered hotels to provide “panic devices” to employees engaged in “housekeeping or room service duties.” The law further imposes notification, reporting, and...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Earlier this week, Atlassian published its form acquisition letter of intent under the banner of The M&A Process is Broken: It’s outdated, inefficient and combative. ...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services have issued final regulations allowing employers to establish health reimbursement arrangements and certain other types of reimbursement plans (collectively, “individual...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

La prassi della Agenzia delle Entrate di riqualificare il contenuto degli atti soggetti a registrazione sulla base degli effetti economici realizzati ha interessato numerose operazioni degli ultimi anni....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The classic 1989 film Back to the Future II famously predicted that humans would be zipping around on hoverboards in the year 2015. The film wasn’t too far off. Hoverboards debuted in the 2000s and gained immense popularity in a short period of...By: Butler Snow LLP

In order to support the District of Columbia’s new Universal Paid Leave Act (the Act), covered employers will be required to contribute to the Universal Paid Leave Implementation Fund (the Fund), by way of a payroll tax of 0.62 percent of the annual...By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The Kansas Supreme Court recently reversed the Kansas Court of Appeals, and re-instated a three-plus million dollar jury verdict in favor of an injured BNSF Railway worker. It did so after finding that it was for the jury — not the Judge — to...By: Butler Snow LLP

In Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis (U.S. June 3, 2019), the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) held that the charge-filing requirement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) is not jurisdictional. The case involved an information...By: Bracewell LLP

In a trio of recent decisions arising out of cases alleging that an antipsychotic medication, Risperdal, and its generic, risperidone, had caused gynecomastia (breast tissue growth) in men, the United States District Court for the District of...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The past few days saw two major updates to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA) of which employers should be aware: a three-month extension of various deadlines for employer compliance and the issuance of final regulations...By: Foley Hoag LLP