Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a standard interpretation cautioning employers on the use of headphones to listen to music on a construction site....
New legislation designed to help more Americans build a personal retirement account should make it easier for employers – especially small businesses – to provide the service to their employees.... By: Barley Snyder
A&B ABstract: New Jersey is the latest state to require the licensing of an entity that passively invests in whole residential mortgage loans on a servicing-released basis or in the servicing rights in such loans....
Recently, in Amgen Inc. v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit clarified the limits of the Safe Harbor defense in cases involving patented manufacturing methods.... By: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
In December 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its Supervisory Highlights covering its findings from examinations in the areas of credit reporting and the furnishing of credit information to consumer reporting agencies...
1. I Can See (More) Clearly Now: Illinois Clarifies Employer Protections in Recreational Cannabis Law - Beginning on January 1, 2020, recreational use of cannabis by adults in Illinois will be legal under state law. Of course, it continues to be a...
In an opinion filed November 26, and ordered published on December 23, 2019, the Third District Court of Appeal partially reversed a judgment rejecting a labor union’s CEQA challenges to the EIS/EIR for a geothermal power plant project on federal...
Effective as of January 1, 2020, the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in the fall of 2019, provides certain new protections for residential tenants in the State of California....
