Operators are experiencing more and more residents who are reeling from the financial stress caused from job loss in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Many lawyers do not prepare their witnesses adequately for testimony because they do not understand that the experience is not a normal one for the client.

As a reminder, the new rules prohibit contractors from using certain telecommunications equipment and services.

The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) covers only random-fired calls and texts to cellphones from an automatic telephone dialing system...

Major hospitality providers face a new wave of class action lawsuits alleging that synthetic fragrances used in common areas violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and state consumer protection laws.

Earlier this year, an enterprise that sold criminal record reports via mobile apps agreed to settle FTC charges that it operated as a consumer reporting agency without taking consumer protection measures required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and otherwise committed deceptive acts and practices.

The Obama Administration informed various sources that President Obama plans to issue an executive order to develop privacy guidelines for using commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - also referred to as drones.

Two and a half years after publishing the proposed version of the rules, the federal Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights released a pre-publication version of its final rules.

Entities affected by the federal HIPAA privacy and security regulations are running out of excuses for not having a robust HIPAA compliance program.

We mentioned in our prior post the potential legal issues that The Heartbleed Bug will create from the standpoint of data breach and safe harbor.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a Request for Information, which is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Dec. 14, 2018.

The Office for Civil Rights has published two YouTube videos summarizing the HIPAA omnibus rule, which becomes enforceable on September 23, 2013.

The blog recently discussed a case called Fraley v. Facebook Inc., No. C-11-1726 which involved allegations that Facebook's "Sponsored Stories" program misappropriated the names and likenesses of users as a means of implying endorsement of a product or service by that user to one of his or her Facebook "friends."

At the end of April, the State of California updated the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers list that was first issued in March in furtherance of Gov. Gavin Newsom's Stay At Home order.

As Council Period 26 got underway with the new calendar year, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau introduced a bill – the Housing Capacity Preservation Amendment Act of 2025...

The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development for the District of Columbia issued draft regulations effectuating the Housing in Downtown Tax Abatement (Abatement) on Jan. 26, 2024.

The District of Columbia's Department of Transportation (DDOT) launched the Streatery Program in 2020 as a public safety measure at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ms. Brown worked with the Legal Aid Society to represent a group of Lake Worth tenants against their former landlord after the landlord's actions lead to the loss of their homes.

On May 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case involving a Santa Monica ordinance aimed at banning the short-term leasing of entire residential