The New York District Court recently ruled that a truck engine manufacturer was not a franchisor under the New York Franchised Motor Vehicle Dealer Act (Dealer Act).

As the Wall Street Journal notes, it doesn't appear that the SEIU has been able to build a large or strong coalition of franchisees for its effort.

In keeping with this blog’s attention to legislation addressing the health hazards of "sugary drink" consumption, we now move to the great state of California.

McDonald's Corporation ("McDonald's") was named as a defendant in a putative class action filed by the employees of the Haynes Family Limited Partnership, which operated eight McDonald's franchises in the Bay Area.

Late last week, a district judge in Texas declared unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution a provision of the state's Beer Industry Fair Dealing Law...

One of the major benefits of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is that website owners can gain the protection of the DMCA's safe harbor provisions by registering a DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office.

The FTC has issued an updated data breach response guide. The guide provides an outline of steps the FTC believes your company should follow in the event of a data breach. They fall into several broad categories: securing operations, fixing vulnerabilities, and notifying appropriate parties.

The Property Line is a brief and lively discussion of the biggest issues facing the commercial real estate industry.

As previously announced, the Illinois Department of Revenue has begun a new amnesty program, running October 1 through November 15, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final rule imposing a national prohibition against non-competes along partisan lines (3-2) during an open meeting on April 23, 2024 (the Final Rule).

I was recently on vacation with my family. Every time I stopped for gas, or when I bought groceries at an out-of-state grocery store, the card processing unit prompted me to enter my ZIP code to complete the transaction. Was this practice illegal?

In the past two weeks, numerous states have ordered businesses deemed non-essential to eliminate their in-person workforce to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The new year is as much a time for reflection as it is for resolution. With this in mind, I'd like to briefly look back at last year's franchise law developments in Mississippi.

The final resolution of these questions may be some years away, but monitoring further developments will assist you in restructuring your agreements and system to be in the best position to avoid joint employer liability.

Franchisee employees may be considered "joint employees" of the franchisor for purposes of collective bargaining and other employment issues under the National Labor Relations Board's recent...

As most lawyers know, finding CLE ethics credits can be difficult so I sat in on this year's ABA Forum on Franchising seminar "Ethical Risks in Cyberspace.

This is a reminder that annual report filings are due in March 2026 for corporations formed or registered in Delaware and Massachusetts.

A multi-unit Houlihan's franchisee, A.C.E. Restaurant Group Inc., operating 17 restaurants across New York and New Jersey is accused of keeping tips and wages from servers and bartenders and failing to pay overtime to employees who worked more than 40 hours a week according to a lawsuit filed this month by the U.S. Department of Labor.

This month I attended a very interesting ABA webinar entitled "Practical Insurance Guidance for Franchisors."

A recent published opinion from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, an intermediate state appellate court, has called into question the enforceability of some restrictive covenants in Pennsylvania.