Legal News

A declaratory order issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the Commission) on January 30 in Docket No. RP20-41-000 grants pipeline developers greater certainty in planning and siting construction. The order was issued after a split 2-1...By: Morgan Lewis

In Notice 2020-06 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides helpful relief for IRA providers that were unable to cancel the required minimum distribution (RMD) statements they had set to go out to IRA owners turning age 70½ in 2020....By: Morgan Lewis

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division issued a Business Review Letter (BRL) on January 15 in response to a proposal by the American Optometric Association (AOA) and AOAExcel GPO, LLC to expand their group purchasing arrangement....By: Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

In the changing employment environment surrounding the current outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), salary payment standards are governed by local rules and emergency measures. This LawFlash...By: Morgan Lewis

The outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has created a number of questions and compliance challenges for employers in the United States as well as across the globe. This is a fluid and rapidly changing situation....By: Morgan Lewis

The German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has published the draft bill on the 10th amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition, which includes a proposal for the revision of abuse control in Germany. Such revision would be...By: Morgan Lewis

A constantly evolving framework of laws governing how multinational businesses can contact customers to how nonprofits report business income to how overtime is calculated and paid will influence how companies do business in 2020....By: Morgan Lewis

In Bigger v. Facebook, Inc., the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that courts should not authorize notice of a pending Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action to individuals who have already entered into a valid arbitration...By: Morgan Lewis

Recent developments regarding immigration across the globe include changes to temporary and permanent resident application procedures in Canada, an increase in the minimum salary for S Pass applicants in Singapore, and the Migration Advisory...By: Morgan Lewis

Tax laws have long required that qualified retirement plans timely adopt written plan documents and amendments. But what evidence must a plan sponsor provide to an IRS auditor to prove that they have timely adopted a written plan document and...By: Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits