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The Washington, D.C., retail economy is on the rise and will continue to grow stronger due to a combination of market forces and regulatory innovations. Nationally, the Commerce Department reported a 1.8 percent gain in retail sales in March 2004, closing out the first quarter of the year on a strong note. Locally, the metropolitan Washington area has led the country in job creation since the first quarter of 2003, and was recently ranked the best market in the country for retail real estate by

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of a recognized disability and also requires employers to engage in an "interactive process" with disabled employees and their doctors to determine whether a reasonable accommodation can be made to enable the employee to perform the essential functions of the job without posing an undue burden to the employer.

On March 20, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion that has the potential to significantly affect the federal government’s authority to regulate under the Clean Water Act.

A showdown is looming that could have huge ramifications on the advertising revenues and practices of Internet search engines. Litigation has been commenced in two separate courts, on opposite ends of the country, between Google, Inc. and American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. triggered by Google’s AdWords program.

In a severe blow to employers, the California Supreme Court affirmed, and effectively encouraged, the use of class action lawsuits against employers to recover overtime wages from employers. Giving extraordinary deference to trial courts, and potentially moving away from its prior holdings on wage and hour law, the Court, on August 26, 2004, in <I>Sav-On Drug Stores, Inc. v. Superior Court</I>, affirmed the trial court’s certification of an overtime class action claim.

For over a century, telephone service subscribers have been subject to a federal excise tax (FET) on communications services. Initially designed to curb the federal deficit caused by the Spanish-American War, the FET currently imposes a 3 percent levy on all "telephone service," "local telephone service," and "teletypewriter exchange service."

On July 13, 2004, the National Labor Relations Board (Board), in a 3-2 decision involving Brown University, ruled that graduate student assistants are not employees within the meaning of Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (Act).