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In a decision that expands the risks faced by recipients of federal financial assistance, including colleges and universities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individuals can sue under Title IX if they suffer retaliation for complaining about gender discrimination.

A family limited partnership (FLP) is a limited partnership composed of a general partner and limited partners. The general partner, who has the power to make virtually all decisions on behalf of the partnership, is generally an entity (an S corporation or limited liability company (LLC)) controlled by family members.

Guest safety became a serious hospitality industry issue after singer-actress Connie Francis was assaulted in a Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge in Westbury, Long Island in November of 1974 by a stranger who was able to open a "locked" sliding glass door to her room. Our post-September 11 world renewed the public’s fears about security everywhere, including hotels, which suffered collateral damage in the terrorist attack.

On April 30, 2004, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (the Commission) sent to Congress its proposed changes to the Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (the Amendments) which establish the framework for compliance and ethics programs. The Amendments expand and clarify the requirements for an "effective" compliance and ethics program. These changes will require entities to evaluate whether their existing compliance and ethics programs meet the new criteria and to make appropriate modi

On Tuesday, October 12, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two wetlands cases (both from Michigan) that could help clarify the extent of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act and to address the issues that were not reached in the Court’s 2001 decision of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. Corps, 531 U.S. 159 (2001) (SWANC).

The recent spate of mold and water intrusion lawsuits has generated an abundance of literature, mold protocols, opinions and advice about how to avoid mold and water intrusion problems. To cut through the verbiage and save reading time, below is a checklist of some of the key techniques that will help prevent mold and resulting mold litigation.

On August 23, 2004, the new white collar exemption rules to the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect. While these rules do not change the way of computing overtime pay, they do clarify the standards for determining whether a position is exempt from overtime pay.

As nearly everyone has heard, on April 20, 2005, President Bush signed into law the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (the Act). The effective date of the Act is October 17, 2005, (180 days from the date of enactment), although certain amendments take effect immediately upon enactment, and others on specified trigger dates.