Supreme Court Miniseries: Religious Accommodation at Work
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#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS Introduces Heightened Standard for Religious Accommodation, Rules Against Affirmative Action, Protects “Expressive” Services - Employment Law This Week®
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One of the mandates of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005 was to provide greater visibility into settlements with the goal of generating more transparency on how these settlements affect class members, according to...more
Four Indicted for $16 Million Money Laundering Scheme - On March 23, 2022, an indictment was unsealed in the Western District of Arkansas, charging four men for their involvement in wire fraud and money laundering schemes...more
Effective March 27, 2021, the Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act (E-Cig Act) expands on existing legislation governing the shipment of cigarettes to impose restrictions on the shipment of “Electronic...more
Two recent False Claims Act (FCA) settlements between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and transportation companies point to the continuation of a recent trend by the DOJ to use the FCA as a significant enforcement tool...more
There is a House of Representatives bill pending that if passed would allow shipment of alcohol beverages through the US Postal Service. Currently alcohol beverages may only be shipped through a common carrier such as UPS or...more
On May 20, 2019, the US Supreme Court denied United Parcel Service Inc.’s (UPS) petition in a case which implicates the amount of deference that courts should provide to governmental agencies. Given the importance of...more
Transportation companies again dominate this year’s Top 150 U.S. Postal Service Suppliers list. All told, USPS spent nearly $16 billion on purchases in FY 2018, about $900 million more than last year. Not surprisingly for an...more
Most of us are aware of the timely-mailed-timely-filed “mailbox rule” contained within the Internal Revenue Code. Most of us are probably also aware that a document mailed with a private delivery service may also qualify for...more