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On June 14, federal agencies responsible for Healthcare Reform regulations issued interim final rules addressing grandfathering of health plans (the Rules) under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the Reconciliation Act) (collectively, the Healthcare Reform Law).

New case law and statutory changes increase litigation and liability risk for employers that fail to comply with both federal and state lactation break laws.

As the effective date for the tax increase approaches, employers and payroll service providers should evaluate their obligations and prepare policies for compliance.

New laws affecting reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees, leave for employees with immediate family in the armed forces, and wage payment and responses to lien notifications take effect on October 1.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act or ACA) places various new reporting and disclosure requirements on employers, group health plans, and plan administrators.

A departure from the disclosure-driven precedents set by past consumer protection laws will usher in the era of the independent consumer financial protection regulator.

In a decision with implications for companies facing class action litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a federal district court, having rejected certification of a proposed class action, could not take the additional step of enjoining a state court from addressing a motion to certify the same class under state law.

When the Founding Fathers created a bicameral legislative branch of the government, they determined that all members of the lower body—the U.S. House of Representatives—would run for office every two years and that members of the upper chamber—the U.S. Senate—would serve six-year terms with a third of the membership reviewed every two years.

In its recent decision in Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the so-called "25% rule of thumb" as a means for determining damages in a patent infringement case, calling the rule "a fundamentally flawed tool" and declaring evidence relying on the rule inadmissible under the principles of Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Three district courts to consider D.R. Horton have distinguished or rejected the NLRB's holding that it was a violation of the NLRA to condition employment on an agreement providing all employment disputes and claims would be resolved in arbitration.

Following on the heels of Race Tires II,1 which awarded electronic discovery costs in favor of the prevailing party, several recent awards suggest that when deciding whether to pursue litigation, parties should take into consideration the costs of electronic discovery—and the discovery methods used—as courts are increasingly taxing nonprevailing parties for the costs of electronic discovery.

The Morgan Lewis Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice has published an outline highlighting selected U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and NYSE Regulation enforcement actions and developments regarding broker-dealers during 2009.

Bulletin shows severe retrogression of the cutoff date for individuals born in India in the employment-based second preference category and continued advancement of the cutoff date for individuals born in China in the employment-based third preference category.

A potential merger or acquisition of a target company must include a thorough investigation of the target company.

On October 11, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the Council) released a second notice of proposed rulemaking and proposed interpretive guidance for determining whether a nonbank financial company would be subject to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’s (the Board of Governors’) enhanced supervision and regulation.

Expanded guidance clarifies the types of plans and amounts that must be reported and requires employers to take additional steps to meet their Form W-2 reporting obligations.

As things currently stand, on July 16, when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act) becomes effective, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - registered broker-dealers (BDs) will no longer be able to enter into many types of foreign currency transactions for their retail customers.