On July 6, 2017, the Illinois legislature finally approved a state budget and enacted Public Act 100-0022. As expected, there are several changes to the Illinois income tax that will affect individual and corporate taxpayers in...

Hiring parties should review their current independent contractor agreements to ensure compliance with the adopted rules.

The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has...

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina recently held that an employer didn’t interfere with an employee’s rights under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) or retaliate against her by contacting her to schedule her...

The California Senate has amended further AB 958 on fluorinated chemicals in food packaging to specify specific actions that would be required under the Green Chemistry program. (For background information on the bill, see our...

La imagen de los mexicanos en la Florida generalmente se enmarca en el debate sobre la inmigración que actualmente arrasa en nuestro país. Pero la influencia mexicana y su presencia en la Florida va mucho más allá de los...

On July 10, 2017, Governor Dannel Malloy, along with Chief Information Officer Mark Raymond and Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer Arthur House, released Connecticut’s initial Cybersecurity Strategy. The goal of the Cybersecurity...

In a strange turn of events, the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently dismissed its review of an insurance coverage appeal, pointing to the parties’ apparent failure to complete a full four corners analysis in their briefs.

On July 17, 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Barbuto v. Advantage Sales & Marketing, LLC, that an employee using medical marijuana in treatment of a chronic illness may qualify for protection...

On July 17, 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a unanimous ruling in Barbuto v....

In a very thorough analysis following a 3 day Preliminary Injunction hearing Judge Jed Rakoff declined to issue injunctive relief to a former employer seeking to enjoin four former employees and their new employer from...

In a blow to the defense bar—and, in particular, retail employers—the California Supreme Court, in Williams v. Superior Court (Marshalls of CA, LLC), S227228 (July 13, 2017), held that there is nothing unique about...

State-registered medical cannabis patients may now sue a private employer for discrimination under Massachusetts’ law if they are fired for their off-the-jobmarijuana use, according to landmark ruling issued...

On June 22, 2017, the Wisconsin Supreme Court took a 3-Iron to common intuitions about who is, and who is not, a dealer protected by the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law (WFDL). In ...

Just last week, a Verizon Communications vendor misconfigured a cloud server that caused the information of 6 million Verizon customers to be exposed on-line. When a cyber incident or data breach occurs on your vendor’s watch,...

Emphasizing the broad right of discovery and the remedial nature of the California Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, the California Supreme Court has ruled that, in pretrial discovery, plaintiffs under PAGA has a right to...

New Jersey is moving closer to enacting a law that would prohibit employers from inquiring about applicants’ salary histories. The bill, passed in the Democratic-controlled state Assembly and now the state Senate, is one of several similar bills...

Spurred by a recent change in a Massachusetts wage and hour regulation, plaintiffs’ attorneys are aggressively pursuing class action lawsuits seeking unpaid overtime premium pay on behalf of car salespeople across the...