Under the theory of “disparate impact,” even facially neutral policies can result in claims of discrimination when a “protected group” suffers a statistical disadvantage vis a vis another group (i.e., the rule of thumb...

On July 1, 2018, California’s revised Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17600 et seq., goes into effect.

The updated law requires e-commerce sellers, doing business in California, to allow online cancellation of...

On June 14, Cardozo Law School in New York City held a conference entitled “Blockchain and the Law: Towards a Responsible Blockchain Sector.”  The conference was led by a panel consisting of current and former commissioners and staff members of...

On May 30, 2018, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law Senate Bill 18-062,...

Last December, an Illinois appellate court, in the Rosenbach v. Six Flags decision (2017...

On July 1, 2018, only ten days from now, the Diane B. Allen Pay Equity Act (Act) goes into effect, broadening New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD)...

In a case closely watched by the construction industry, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC") has overturned a Superior Court’s decision barring any recovery by the general contractor G4S (the "General") from the...

Indiana has received nearly $40 million as part of the Environmental Mitigation Trust Fund created by recent settlement of diesel emission litigation; this money will be awarded as grants to reduce NOx emissions in the state,...

On June 19, 2018, unannounced ICE raids resulted in the arrest of more than 140 workers at four meat processing plants in Ohio. ICE calls this its largest workplace raid in recent history.

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In a decision issued on May 15, 2018, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) clarified the issue of who has legal standing to bring eviction cases, known as “summary process actions,” against commercial or...

Thousands of laboratories nationwide will be happy to hear that Florida, which licenses in-state as well as out-of-state laboratories, has repealed its laboratory licensure...

Yesterday's post discussed the Court of Appeal's holding in  Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc. v. Superior Court, 2018 Cal. App. LEXIS 541, that a defendant in a civil proceeding by the Department of Business Oversight for...

Privacy and security compliance obligations for health care companies remain hot topics this spring. Health care companies must now contend with data breach laws in all 50 states as well as keeping on top of federal HIPAA...

This past week, a Texas district court denied a bid from a web service for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to enjoin a competitor that allegedly scraped a large amount of proprietary data from its closed site via several...

Today, HUD issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking requesting public comments to its...

As of August 30, 2018, businesses will be subject to new warning requirements under the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (aka Prop 65). The Prop 65 regulatory amendments (Amendments), adopted...

Starting in August, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reportedly will begin a pilot program at the Anzalduas port of entry in Texas using face recognition technology to capture facial images of occupants in moving...