Legal News

Companies in the medical and recreational marijuana industry continue to face an uphill battle for access to financial services. Although a number of states have legalized the medicinal and/or recreational use of marijuana, marijuana remains...By: Snell & Wilmer

On October 28, 2019, the Ninth Circuit, following in the footsteps of the D.C. Circuit and the Second Circuit, affirmed an order entered by the NLRB confirming that prohibitions on secondary boycotts under Section 8(b)(4)(i)(B) of the NLRA do not...By: Proskauer - Labor Relations

Not vegetarianism according to a recent decision of the Employment Tribunal in Newcastle (Conisbee v. Crossley Farms Limited) and yet, in the case of Mr Casamitjana v. League Against Cruel Sports, there is a widely held view that the claimant's...By: Dentons

IR35 was introduced to crack down on perceived tax avoidance whereby individuals would seek to avoid paying employee income tax and National Insurance contributions by contracting through personal service companies (PSCs). The First-Tier Tribunal...By: Dentons

UK Case Law Developments - Reliance on HMRC's manual statement can, but didn't, give rise to legitimate expectation - In the recent judicial review case of Roao Aozora GMAC Investment Ltd v HMRC, the Court of Appeal (CA) considered whether HMRC...By: Proskauer Rose LLP

Every day in the United States, 130 people die from opioid overdoses. To date, the opioid epidemic, as it has been termed, has claimed the lives of more than 420,000 people and affected the lives of many more. Because the drugs involved—codeine,...By: Pessin Katz Law, P.A.

In an October 28, 2019 Opinion of a three-judge panel, the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Joyce E. Kardos, Executrix of the Estate of Nicholas J. Kardos, deceased, and Joyce E. Kardos, in her own right, v. Armstrong Pumps, Inc., 2019 PA. Super. 324,...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

At long last, the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued an update to its safe harbor rules governing electronic distributions of retirement plan disclosures. When finalized and adopted, the new safe harbor rules will update guidance that has been in...By: Verrill

When California’s AB 5 was signed into law last month, a chorus of voices decried the fact that it could radically change the gig economy as we know it. Many contended that the average app-based driver enjoyed being an independent contractor and...By: Fisher Phillips

On October 15, 2019, the Bernalillo County, New Mexico Commissioners voted to amend their mandatory paid time off (PTO) ordinance, enacted only two months earlier.  As we previously reported, the ordinance will require certain employers with a...By: Littler