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HR Defense
Keeping Pace with Pay Transparency: Recent Updates and What’s Ahead for Employers
Pay transparency laws continue to expand across the United States, creating new compliance obligations for employers that post jobs, recruit candidates, set compensation ranges, or maintain pay records across multiple…
Pay Equity Advisor Blog
Pay Transparency Reminder: Are Your Job Postings Current?
With the fourth quarter underway, employers should confirm that their ongoing job-posting practices reflect pay transparency changes that took effect in 2026. Virginia and Maine added pay disclosure requirements for…
GT SALT Watch
Recent State Income Tax Decisions and Their Potential SALT Implications for Multistate Businesses
By John Ormonde
Recent state tax decisions address the scope of P.L. 86-272, evidentiary requirements for refund claims, and the classification of income from the disposition of business assets.
Ed Folsom Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
False hate crime narratives with deeply ideological cures.
By Ed Folsom
False hate crime narratives with deeply ideological cures. Posted by Ed Folsom, October 9, 2026. As a young assistant district attorney in the late 80’s or early 90’s, I was…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
When ERISA Benefits End After Years of Payment: Minnesota Court Upholds Aetna’s Termination of Long-Term Disability Benefits
In Young v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, No. 24-CV-4611 (PJS/DTS), 2026 WL 2874085 (D. Minn. Sept. 24, 2026), U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz granted summary judgment to Aetna and…
Religion Clause
Injunction Pending Appeal Denied in Challenge to Maine’s Vaccination Requirement for School Children
As previously reported, earlier this month a Maine federal district court rejected free exercise and Establishment Clause challenges to Maine's compulsory vaccination law for school children (20-A M.R.S. § 6355). The…
Ed Folsom Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
Maine’s crime rate keeps falling as the system sucks wind.
By Ed Folsom
Maine’s crime rate keeps falling as the system sucks wind. Posted by Ed Folsom, September 19, 2026. What’s going on with criminal case numbers here in Maine lately? I haven’t…
Food Safety News
Publisher's Platform: This FDA official got it right
By Bill Marler
I have spent more than 30 years representing people sickened by contaminated food. I do not often read a speech by an FDA official and find myself agreeing with nearly…
Marler Blog
FDA’s Donna Garren Says Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste. After This Cyclospora Summer She Is Right, and If We Do Not Act, Shame on Us.
By Bill Marler
I have spent more than 30 years representing people sickened by contaminated food. I do not often read a speech by an FDA official and find myself agreeing with nearly…
Turtle Talk
Land Back at the Doorstep: Mi’kmaq Nation Connects Housing to Homelands
The acquired land is adjacent to tribal housing. Credit: Photo posted by Native News Online Land return can transform a community without involving thousands of acres. The Mi’kmaq Nation has acquired Pugweliget,…