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Court Sets New Effective Date For HHS ‘Conscience Rule’

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

In a letter filed with a federal judge, lawyers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreed last week to a four-month delay before implementing a new rule that would strengthen protections for health care providers against having to...

EUON Search Tool Includes Over 300 Nanomaterials on the EU Market

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

The European Union (EU) Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) announced on July 3, 2019, that it has added a new search tool for nanomaterials to its website. According to EUON, it will enable regulators to form a better view of available data and...

“Yet Now, Federated Along One Keel” – United States Supreme Court Resolves Fifth/Ninth Circuit Split, Unequivocally Rejects Punitive Damages For General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness Claims

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

Yet now, federated along one keel… MOBY DICK, HERMAN MELVILLE, Chap. XXVII - In the wake of Justice Thomas’s landmark decision in Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend, American maritime jurisprudence was left with its “keeled hulls split at sea” due to...

Utah Appellate Court: Homeowners’ Claim for Defective Construction Against Geotechnical Engineer Dismissed Due to Lack of Contract and the Economic Loss Rule

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

A recent Utah Appellate Court upheld the dismissal of a homeowners' claims against a geotechnical engineer because the homeowners did not have a contract with the geotechnical engineer and therefore their claims were barred by the economic loss rule....

A Recap of the Supreme Court’s 2019 Summer Slate

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

As usual, the last month of the Supreme Court’s term generated significant rulings on all manner of cases, possibly presaging the new directions the Court will be taking in administrative and regulatory law....

Lawyer awarded $229K in pregnancy bias suit after judge slams defendant law firm for slow discovery

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

FDIC to Centralize Key Aspects of Its Large, Complex Financial Institution Activities

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

On July 8, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced its intentions to centralize the supervision and resolution activities for the largest banks and complex financial institutions in a new division to be named the Division of...

MERS Procedure Not Violation of Alabama Law – Alabama Supreme Court Looks Beyond Punctuation in Interpreting Recording Statute

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

In its recent opinion in Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. Walker County, the Alabama Supreme Court held Alabama Code § 35-4-50 does not impose a mandatory duty to record assignments of beneficial interests in residential mortgages....

Impact of California Consumer Privacy Act on Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), CCPA creates significant compliance challenges for government contractors and...

Get Back: NLRB Overturns Long-Standing “Public Space” Exception

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/19

Why This Matters - In June, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) overturned a nearly 38-year old precedent when it ruled that employers may deny nonemployee union representatives access to areas of their property open to the public, like...

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