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Simplicity And Clarity In The Administration And Enforcement Of Jurisdictional Rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

Jurisdictional rules are intended to be simple and thereby easy to administer and enforce. See Hertz Corp. v. Friend, 559 U.S. 77, 81, 94-95 (2010) (“[W]e place primary weight upon the need for judicial administration of a jurisdictional statute to...

House passes bill to amend TILA points and fees definition for mortgage loans

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed a bill to amend the TILA definition of “points and fees” that is used to determine whether a loan is a high-cost mortgage or, for purposes of TILA’s ability to repay provisions, a qualified...

EEOC Issues Important Transgender Rights Ruling, Finding that Restroom Use Should Match Gender Identity

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) forged new ground earlier this month when it ordered the U.S. Army to pay damages to a transgender employee based on a discriminatory restroom policy. We have reported in past posts on the EEOC’s...

California Employers, Beware: It’s Time to Rewrite Your Sick Leave and PTO Policies

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

By now, most employers have heard about California’s new paid sick leave law, AB 1522, technically known as the Healthy Workplace, Healthy Families Act, which will be codified at Labor Code sections 245 to 249 and 2810.5. Many employers with existing...

FTC settles with two companies over misrepresentations of safe harbor compliance

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced last week that it is settling investigations against American International Mailing, Inc. and TES Franchising LLC alleging that each were misrepresenting to consumers that they complied with the...

Telemedicine Providers Need to Keep Up with State Laws

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

Tech-savvy health care providers and tech-savvy patients in California can be grateful for California’s policies regarding telehealth practices. Consider the turmoil in Texas: telehealth practitioners who want to treat patients in Texas have lost...

Should You Sharpen Your Diversity Policies & Practices under Dodd-Frank Mandates?

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

The much-publicized Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 became effective on August 12, 2011. Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Act, requiring the implementation of diversity practices for both government agencies and...

New Government Contractor Political Contribution Disclosure Law Passed by Maryland General Assembly

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

On April 10, the Maryland General Assembly made significant changes to the state’s public contractor political contribution disclosure law. Many of the amendments were prompted by questions that had arisen regarding the most recent version of the...

Five Things to Know about New Jersey’s Taxation of Convertible Virtual Currency

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

On March 10, 2015, the New Jersey Division of Taxation issued Technical Advisory Memorandum TAM-2015-1, explaining its policy regarding convertible virtual currency. The IRS has held that convertible virtual currency (CVC), such as Bitcoin, is...

Legal Departments: New PCI DSS Requirements Mandatory in June

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/04/15

PCI Council publishes new PCI Data Security Standard Version 3.1 and provides very short time to implement new encryption standards. The PCI Council just published a new version of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The newVersion 3.1...

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