California Assembly Bill 9 (AB 9), sponsored by Assembly Members Eloise Reyes, Laura Friedman, and Marie Waldron, would expand employee protections related to harassment and discrimination in the workplace.

Redevelopment of environmentally-damaged property has seen steady growth in North Carolina and nationwide. 

The attraction to dense, urban communities offering work/live/play opportunities and away...

(Update from an earlier post on Illinois Minimum Wage)

The Illinois legislature has...

Minnesota’s Department of Agriculture has announced the AGRI Biofuel Blending Infrastructure Grant to provide funding...

Most of us have seen them. Those giant inflatable rats sitting outside a new-build constriction site or a retail center remodel. Signs that a union is disparaging a contractor’s use of non-union labor on a job site. This week,...

At the end of 2018, the Office of Planning and Research’s (OPR’s) years-long effort (since 2011) to update the Guidelines (CEQA Guidelines) implementing the California Environmental Quality Act became a reality. This...

Recently, the ocean east of Block Island and south of Martha’s Vineyard has seen a “gold rush” of interest as a location for future offshore wind farms. Would be wind farm developers are bidding aggressively in federal auctions...

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Mass. House Speaker DeLeo Announces 2019-2020 Leadership

HOUSE LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS

Speaker Pro Temp — Patricia Haddad

Majority Leader — Ron Mariano

Assistant Majority...

With the use of e-discovery managers, experts, and other vendors becoming part of the ordinary course of commercial litigation, should your company’s commercial general liability (CGL) policies provide coverage for those costs...

Last week’s decision in Ward v. Tilly’s Inc. means that California employers with on-call policies are required to pay a minimum of two hours reporting time pay, even if the employee is told there is no need to come into work that day....

Washington State is considering sweeping legislation (SB 5376) to govern the security and privacy of personal data similar to the requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Under the proposed legislation,...

Certification in a TCPA class action almost always turns on whether the issue of consent can be determined by common proof. But every once in a while, a class representative is found to be inadequate based on their close ties with the putative...

Now that I have your attention, let’s discuss a recent First Circuit decision interpreting when there’s a hostile work environment and who’s liable for it under the Maine Human Rights Act. ...

On February 7, 2019, the Village of Glenview, Illinois, voted to opt back in to the...

California has thousands of statutes on the books.  Over the years many have become outdated, referring to laws, agencies and office titles that no longer exist.  For the public, this can be very frustrating as it is not always...

Federal prosecutors announced yesterday the Government’s settlement with electronic health records (“EHR”) vendor Greenway Health, LLC (“Greenway”) of False Claims Act (“FCA”) allegations for a payment of $57.25 million and...