The City of McPherson, Kansas was recently hit for almost $1 million in damages when a jury sided with a plaintiff police officer who claimed he was wrongfully terminated for falling asleep on duty.

2020 is in the rearview mirror. Whew! Unfortunately, COVID-19 is not gone and certainly not forgotten. The latest hot topic has been what to do with employees who think they should get paid...

Apple scored a decisive wage-and-hour victory when a California district court recently tossed a class action in which the plaintiff employees sought compensation for time spent undergoing exit bag searches...

On Tuesday night, the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Same-sex marriage is now legal throughout the United States.

Paid family leave is one of the hottest topics in employment law, and various states and cities are moving to address the issue.

On June 26, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a series of challenges to EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act ("CAA").

On August 2, Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) introduced a bill designed to provide greater regulatory certainty for companies affected by Section 112(r)(1) of the Clean Air Act.

On January 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released guidance clarifying its definition of the term "lawful residency."

On July 19, 2011 CMS published its proposed 2012 Physician Fee Schedule.

A federal judge has ordered Idaho’s St. Luke’s Health System to divest Saltzer Medical Group, which it acquired in 2012.

On June 17, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced in a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") will begin using an electronic predictive modeling program in the fight against health care fraud and abuse.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for physician-owned hospitals seeking to avail themselves of the "whole hospital" exception or "rural provider" exception to the Stark Law to report ownership and investment information.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a jury verdict finding that a developer and its founder defrauded a contractor by misrepresenting...

A discussion on the proposed legislation which covers construction projects involving governmental entities exempt from Alabama and local sales/use taxes.

In basketball there is a shot clock. Once a team has the ball, it must shoot within 30 seconds. We're obviously talking about college basketball since its March...

A friend of the economic development community, Mike Randle, recently launched an excellent on-line business news consolidation service at www.RandleReport.com.

Based on legislation passed in the spring 2012 legislative session, retroactively effective to January 1, 2012, Alabama residents who are owners of pass-through entities doing business in two or more states may claim an Alabama income tax credit for certain taxes paid by their company to other states on behalf of the individual owners when the other state imposes an income tax withholding obligation or an entity-level tax on the company.

A dispute over the taxability of an Indian tribe's land in Alabama hinges largely on a statute of limitations, as the case moves to a federal appeals court.

The IRS has issued Notice 2014-74, updating its safe harbor model notices for use by qualified retirement plans to satisfy the special tax notice requirement under Section 402(f).