Late Tuesday afternoon, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the FTC from enforcing its Non-Compete Rule ("FTC Rule").

The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the danger of relying on foreign sources of supply for pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies.

On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed Senate Bill 277, the "Protecting Georgia Small Business Act," into law.

On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, the Department of Labor and IRS issued deadline relief and other guidance intended to help employee benefit plan sponsors and participants impacted...

In our recent Client Alert regarding the new federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, we noted that employers are required to post a notice – in a form to be published by the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL")...

Association Health Plans have been reinvigorated by the new regulations released yesterday by the US Department of Labor (DOL). As I mentioned in my blog entry yesterday, these regulations are the result of President Trump's executive order last year instructing the DOL to allow for more flexibility related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and health insurance.

On May 2, 2018, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed the "Hands-Free Georgia Act" (House Bill 673) into law

In December 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued a new process for requesting opinion letters, and also released a new data tool named EEOC Explore.

In response to the #MeToo movement, Illinois has enacted the Workplace Transparency Act ("WTA") to increase employee protections from both harassment and discrimination.

Today the IRS issued an update to its retirement plan loan correction program that significantly expands the errors that can be corrected without filing with the IRS or paying a filing fee.

Sponsors of qualified retirement plans that are experiencing layoffs, furloughs or other reductions in employee population as a result of the COVID-19 crisis may trigger a partial plan termination...

Massachusetts recently passed the Massachusetts Noncompetition Act ("Act") which applies to noncompetition agreements executed on or after October 1, 2018.

In August, EPA announced a Consent Order with ChemArt Company of Lincoln, Rhode Island to correct alleged violations of EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) under the Clean Air Act.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released its estimate of the impact of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 4th of this year.

On June 24, 2019, the United States Supreme Court held that prohibiting registration of scandalous or immoral trademarks violates the First Amendment's protection of free speech.

In order to register a trademark based on use in commerce, or to renew a registration based on a foreign or international registration

In Salcedo v. Hanna, Case No. 17-14077 (decided August 28, 2019), Mr. Saledo had received a single unsolicited text message from his former lawyer offering a discount on services.

Earlier today (June 1, 2020), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Thole v. U.S. Bank N.A. that individual participants in a defined benefit pension plan lack standing

On December 21, 2017, the Music Modernization Act of 2017 (H.R. 4706) was introduced in the House of Representatives.

After losing a case in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on its attempt to delay the effective date of the Obama-era final rule strengthening EPA's Risk Management Plan (RMP) facility accident prevention program.