Thousands of businesses took a wait-and-see attitude towards the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA"), believing that the Supremes would eventually invalidate the ACA.

How well do you know the protections of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? I hope you are brushing up on them (or have our number handy), because the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL) recently released a friendly, easy-to-understand Employee Guide (1,2) entitled "Need Time? The Employee's Guide to the FMLA" to help employees thoroughly understand their rights under the FMLA.

Non-competes are generally enforceable in Texas and can help protect your business when a valuable employee decides the grass is greener on the other side.

On May 3, 2016, New York bankruptcy judge Shelley Chapman issued a judgment in In re Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation which could dramatically shift the balance of power in favor of distressed energy and production companies...

Since their initial release, smartphones have been a hot commodity with intense competition. One particularly contentious issue has been their appearance...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has again cancelled the federal registrations of the Washington Redskins trademarks.

Tax-related identity theft was a hot topic this summer. Since I last blogged about it in May, the NTA released her Fiscal Year 2016 Objectives Report to Congress, alerting us to an upswing in the number of open identity theft cases in IRS inventory.

Alanis Morisette would have to say "Isn’t it ironic, don’t ya think?" The Texas Supreme Court has spent the last six years doing everything possible to make it abundantly clear that Texas noncompetes are enforceable.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in Hoskins v. Colonel Clifton Hoskins and Hoskins, Inc., No. 15-0046, that, for the first time, the Texas Arbitration Act provides the exclusive grounds for vacatur of an arbitration award.

The defendants in Katy Venture, Ltd. v. Cremona Bistro Corp., No. 14-0629, July 24, 2015, had failed to update the address of their registered agent with the Texas Secretary of State...

Lisa Velasquez Olivarez claimed that a GEO employee sexually assaulted her while she was incarcerated in the Maverick County Detention Center.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, a closely watched Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case.

The district court agreed, the court of appeals reversed, and the Supreme Court accepted the case as one of three class actions on the current docket.

In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit held that Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code does not apply in federal court.

The school district filed a plea to the jurisdiction based upon lack of standing, arguing that because the district voluntarily discontinued its prohibition of religious signs or messages the case had become moot.

On March 31, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission approved final consent orders related to its false advertising claims against Sony Computer Entertainment America and its ad agency Deutsch LA...

Plaintiffs were a certified nationwide class of consumers who received autodialed or pre-recorded calls on their mobile phones from home automation and security company, Vivint, Inc., or its affiliate marketers.

On February 13, 2015, President Obama signed an executive order encouraging the sharing of information related to cyber-threats between the private and public sectors.

On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 President Obama signed into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

Early press reports suggested that the order issued by Secretary Foxx applied only to rail shipments of crude produced in the Bakken shale region.