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Recent US Supreme Court Decision Impacts Affordable Housing Industry

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

On June 25, the US Supreme Court upheld a decision that the Fair Housing Act ("Act") includes disparate impact claims. In Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., the Supreme Court extended the scope...

FTC, Florida AG File Action to Stop Alleged Telemarketing Debt Relief Scam Targeting Seniors

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Florida Attorney General (AG) have jointly filed a complaint in a Florida federal court against several companies and their individual owners alleging that the defendants engaged in a debt relief...

DOL Issues New Proposed Overtime Regulations

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

On June 30, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor released long-awaited proposed regulations designed to modify the criteria for determining whether employees fall within the scope of the exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime pay...

Can Debts Caused by a DUI Be Discharged in Bankruptcy?

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

With the 4th of July weekend coming up, DUI task forces will be out. This got me thinking about the relationship between DUI and bankruptcy. I work in an office next to John Skiba and we’ve talked about how these practice areas overlap sometimes. As...

SEC Proposes Clawback Rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

Yesterday, the SEC proposed the long-awaited executive compensation clawback rules under Section 954 of the Dodd Frank Act. Weighing in at over 100 pages, there is a lot to digest. This McGuireWoods client alert provides an in-depth summary, and...

FLSA Wage Increase

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

President Obama announced this week a proposed rule change to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) that will affect every business. The proposed rule change will increase the minimum required salary for employees to qualify as exempt under the FLSA...

JPOA Extended until July 2015: “Temporary” Iran Sanctions Relief Continues until July 2015

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

Since the end of November 2013, the so-called P5 + 1 (the United States and its partners, China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia) have been negotiating with Iran regarding its nuclear program. The negotiations proceeded pursuant to a...

9th Circuit Throws Lifebuoy to California Drowning In Workers’ Compensation Liens

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit resuscitated a contentious provision of California’s SB 863. In a unanimous decision on June 29, 2015, the court in Angelotti Chiropractic, Inc. v. Christine Baker, et al., 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS...

Sixth Circuit Holds National Labor Relations Act Applicable to Indian Tribe's Casino

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

Weighing in on a hotly contested issue, a panel of the Sixth Circuit has found that federal labor law applies to Indian tribes’ casinos, notwithstanding the tribes’ inherent sovereignty. However, the panel only did so because it was bound by an...

The DOL Announces Proposed Revisions to FLSA Regulations Doubling the Minimum Salary Requirement for Exempt Employees

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/07/15

More than 15 months after President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of Labor “to propose revisions to modernize and streamline the existing [FLSA] overtime regulations,” the Department of Labor on June 30, 2015 finally...

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