On March 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose amendments to Rule 15c2-12.

On September 7, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill amending New York’s Wage Deduction Law.

The Second Circuit recently ruled that the Fair Labor Standards Act does not prohibit the enforcement of class action waivers in arbitration agreements with employees, even if the waivers remove the financial incentive for individual employees to pursue claims.

On April 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), in collaboration with the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association, published a new guidance document for governing boards of healthcare organizations on their obligations concerning compliance oversight.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy recently signed into law Public Act No. 16-205, "An Act Concerning Standards and Requirements for Health Carriers' Provider Networks and Contracts Between Health Carriers and Participating Providers."

In "Cushman v. Folan", Case No. 09-P-894, 2010 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1135 (Oct. 19, 2010), a decision issued pursuant to Rule 1:28, the Appeals Court addressed the procedural question of whether an appeal of a fees award in probate court was properly dismissed with respect to one of the appellants ("Cushman") for her failure to post a bond to secure the judgment, as ordered by the probate court.

An August 17 article in Bloomberg BNA's Privacy Law Watch and other publications, "Wellmark's Iowa ACA Exchange Exit Prompts Civil Rights Complaint," discussed an administrative complaint filed with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) by three groups representing hemophiliacs. Day Pitney's Eric Fader was quoted in the article.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") continues its increased enforcement activity against municipal issuers.

As we previously wrote about here, the New York Legislature has been considering a bill that would afford the protections of the New York State Human Rights Law to unpaid interns in the State of New York.

On June 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed decision memo on gender dysphoria and gender reassignment surgery which continues the existing policy of allowing local Medicare contractors to determine coverage on an individual basis.

Engineers at the Institute of Nanotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea are working on converting background noise, music and voice calls from a cell phone into electricity.

The VLD ventured out from behind the law desk last night and attended the 2014 Marcum Tech Top 40 Awards, which honors tech companies large and small from across the state of Connecticut.

In November, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released proposed regulations regarding permissible political activity for Section 501(c)(4) organizations -- those that are required to have social welfare as a primary purpose.

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the motions to suppress filed by Sebastian Pinto-Thomaz and Jeremy Millul in their prosecution...

In Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") reports that as of January 26, 2011, it had reached the cap on new H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2011 and will reject any petitions it receives after that date.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has recently filed, and immediately settled, its first ever lawsuit alleging genetic discrimination under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") recently issued a landmark ruling concerning the protections of transgender employees under Title VII, a federal law which prohibits, among other things, sex discrimination in employment.

The First Circuit recently that an employer can be held liable for sex discrimination for terminating an employee whose job performance has been maligned by a jilted co-worker.

On November 4, 2014, voters in four states approved increases to minimum wage rates that will take effect over the next few years.