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Client Alert: Supreme Court Won’t Be Taking on This Takings Case

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On June 30, the Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari in GHP Management Corporation v. City of Los Angeles. The case arose out of a COVID-era eviction moratorium enacted by the City of Los Angeles which...more

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

Businesses Shuttered by COVID-19 Lockdowns Seek Supreme Court’s Revision of Modern Takings Law

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Is a business temporarily closed by order of the government entitled to compensation? Two groups of plaintiffs have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court hoping not just for a “yes” but an overhaul of a half-century of regulatory...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions

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Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions - In a brief filed earlier this week, the US federal government has urged the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

California Employment Law Notes - July 2024

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Employee Who Wanted To Donate/Freeze Her Eggs Was Not Protected By Pregnancy Statute - Paleny v. Fireplace Products U.S., Inc., 103 Cal. App. 5th 199 (2024) - Erika Paleny alleged harassment, discrimination and...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Second Circuit Rejects Religious Discrimination Claim Based on COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate

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In last term’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly increased employers’ obligation to consider religious exemption requests under Title VII. Rather than the previous de minimus burden standard,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Novel Derivative Sovereign Immunity Defense Struck as Forfeited

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court decision implementing a preliminary injunction and striking a new defense first asserted in an amended complaint as untimely and frivolous. ACT, Inc. v....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Preference for ‎Disadvantaged Government Contractors

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In an effort to counteract the economic damage wrought by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in November of 2021. Part of that bill set aside $370 billion to improve and expand...more

King & Spalding

U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Hear Arguments Over Medicaid Work Requirements

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On April 18, 2022, the Supreme Court tossed two consolidated cases from Arkansas and New Hampshire addressing work requirements for Medicaid coverage that required potential Medicaid beneficiaries to work, attend school, or...more

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Oral Argument on Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate and Potential Impact of Supreme Court ‎Decisions

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Oral Argument Scheduled for April 8 on Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Injunction - Oral argument on the United States’ appeal of the nationwide injunction against President Biden’s federal contractor vaccine mandate is...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Judge in Texas Blocks Enforcement of Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers

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On Friday, January 21, 2022, Judge Jeffrey V. Brown of the Southern District of Texas issued a nation-wide injunction, blocking enforcement of President Biden’s Executive Order 14043. Executive Order 14043 requires...more

King & Spalding

Supreme Court to Review Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Early January

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Last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments on January 7, 2022, regarding the legality of two federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates issued under the Biden administration. The justices will be...more

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Supreme Court to Hear Consolidated Appeals on Vaccine Mandates on January 7, 2022

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While the Supreme Court declined to stay the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health Agency’s vaccine mandate for employers with 100+ employees or to change the status of the rule issued by the Centers for...more

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

Federal Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: The Saga Continues

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Of all of the vaccination mandates issues by the federal government, OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) has likely received the most attention lately. The enforceability of the ETS, or lack thereof, has been a...more

Snell & Wilmer

U.S. Supreme Court To Review Vaccine Mandates

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Following the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel handing down a split decision reinstating the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) vaccination mandate, numerous emergency applications were filed with...more

Brooks Pierce

Mandatory Vaccination or Testing Is Back: Updates on OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard for...

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On Dec. 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for employers with 100 or more...more

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Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Reinstates Vaccine Mandate for Businesses With 100 Employees

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On Friday, December 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals lifted the stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine mandate (the “OSHA Rule”). The OSHA Rule requires businesses with 100 or...more

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COVID-19 Legal Round Up and Looming 2022 Deadlines

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President Biden’s vaccine mandates have faced a roller-coaster ride in the federal court system over the last few weeks, leaving covered employers in the difficult position of trying to comply with on-again, off-again federal...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Happy Holidays!! New Compliance Deadlines under the OSHA ETS to Employers with 100 or More Employees

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Developments immediately before the holiday break have many employers scrambling as the OSHA ETS has seemingly come back to life. The Sixth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision by a 3-member panel, dissolved the temporary stay...more

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OSHA ETS Heads to Sixth Circuit

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On November 16, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was selected during the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s lottery to hear the multiple consolidated challenges to the recent COVID-19 Emergency...more

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OSHA Vaccine Rule Blocked Permanently by Fifth Circuit, But Judicial Review Will Continue

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A three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now permanently blocked OSHA from implementing and enforcing its vaccine rule, which impacts employers nationwide. This is not the end of the judicial review...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Up Next: Does Congress Have Constitutional Authority to Regulate Evictions and Foreclosures?

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Stay Tuned for the Coming Ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - The Supreme Court of the United States effectively ruled on August 26, 2021 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Supreme Court Decides Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski: A Request for Nominal Damages is All You Need

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On March 8, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, holding that a claim for nominal damages saves a claim from dismissal on mootness grounds. For more background on the case, see the...more

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Labor & Employment Law: Vermont and Federal Legislative Update

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Downs Rachlin Martin labor and employment attorneys Amy Resnick and Andrea Wright highlight key Vermont and Federal legislative updates from 2020 that impact HR professionals. They walk through: Vermont minimum wage...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Section 101 Patent Eligibility (Again)

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It should not surprise anyone reading this blog that the U.S. Supreme Court has again declined to grant any petitions concerning Section 101 patent eligibility, despite the ongoing disagreement at the Federal Circuit. While...more

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Employment Flash - July 2020

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This edition of Employment Flash summarizes key employment law issues related to COVID-19 as well as two seminal U.S. Supreme Court rulings that protect gay and transgender employees from discrimination, and clarify the...more

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