On March 11, 2019, the Georgia Supreme Court handed down an important decision in ...

Environmental & Natural Resources

• Within the month, the State Board will issue orders requiring investigation of potential PFAS contamination, a widely used class of chemicals...

December 6, 2018, the effective date of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, marked the first day of legalized recreational marijuana use in the state. But what does that mean? 

Who...

If your business has five or more employees, your business is one of the millions in California that has a duty to provide reasonable accommodations for its employees with known disabilities.

A duty to...

A wine producer can obtain a direct shipper license by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), which permits the direct shipment of wine to Pennsylvania residents. The wine producer must be licensed by the PLCB, another...

Maryland appears poised to increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next few years, joining California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and various local jurisdictions, including its own Montgomery...

Environmental & Natural Resources

Following up on the recent modifications to Prop 65's "clear and reasonable" warning requirements (as discussed in our prior ...

On March 1, 2019, Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg and House Speaker KC Becker introduced Senate Bill 181, which proposes significant changes to Colorado’s oil and gas...

The New Jersey Department of Labor (NJDOL) has revised the state equal pay law’s reporting requirements for employers that provide qualifying services or perform public works (e.g., construction, demolition, repairs,...

Well that was scary.

One would think that using an outbound manual call process that included physical desk phones and that required agents to enter all 10 digits of a phone number on a keypad in order to launch a call would be TCPA-proof...

• The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has tasked the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) of OEHHA’s Science Advisory Board with evaluating whether...

Professor Joshua Fershee continues to chide courts for "careless language related to limited liability companies (LLCs)".  His ...

Jackson County in Georgia has been held ransom after cyber-attackers deployed ransomware that crippled the government’s IT network for 2 weeks. Government officials resorted to coughing up $400,000 in bitcoin to pay the ransom...

There is perhaps nothing more disruptive to a closely held corporation or limited liability company than a disaffected minority shareholder. Irrespective of the merits of any complaints that an individual owner or shareholder...

In Matthew Sciabacucchi v. Matthew B. Salzberg, et al., C.A. No. 207-0931-JTL (Del. Ch. Dec. 19, 2018), the Court of Chancery invalidated a provision in the charter documents of certain Delaware corporations that specified the federal...

Parting with any employee comes with a host of dangers and pitfalls for an employer. These liabilities are increased when the exiting employee holds ownership in or options to own the employer’s company. Especially for smaller...

The Governor of Maine, Janet T. Mills, issued an Executive Order on March 6, 2019, to establish a task force to study perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) contamination in the state.  The Task Force’s purpose is to...