Registration for Maryland’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (“FAMLI”) program is officially open, and Governor Wes Moore is encouraging employers to register as soon as possible.
Employers with at least one Maryland-based employee are required to register. Employers can register
On September 1, we posted on the Government Enforcement, Compliance & Investigations Report about how a Taiwan-based LED manufacturer and its U.S. subsidiary agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they evaded Section 301 tariffs
On August 5, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced that a Taiwan-based, publicly traded manufacturer of light-emitting diodes and its U.S.-based subsidiary agreed to pay the United States $5.15 million to resolve allegations that they
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On August 14, 2026, the Maryland Tax Court struck down the state’s Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax (the “Tax”). In Apple Inc. v. Comptroller, Google LLC v. Comptroller and Peacock TV, LLC v. Comptroller, the court held that the
The U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Complete Auto Transit provides that a state tax satisfies the requirements of the Dormant Commerce Clause if the tax:
FDA updated its Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table today, August 26, 2026, and the Active section now runs to nineteen files. Add up the case counts the agency publishes on each one and the table describes 12,201 illnesses, 595
CDC closed its investigation of a multistate Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to requesón cheese made by Clover Hill Dairy, LLC of Mechanicsville, Maryland on August 26, 2026, with a final count of 15 people sick in four states — Illinois, Maryland, New
Nikki Dobay and guest DeAndré Morrow break down three landmark decisions issued by the Maryland Tax Court on Aug. 14 finding Maryland’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax unconstitutional on multiple grounds, including the Federal Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA), the Dormant
Earlier this summer, my family took a vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, where the boardwalk offered ice cream, souvenirs, and an unexpected lesson in payment economics. Every retailer we visited added a surcharge of at least 3% for credit-card payments
