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Labor Law Update: Contractors Lawfully Prohibited From Leafleting on Third Party Premises On August 23, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) determined that property owners may prohibit non-employees from accessing their premises to engage in conduct that could be protected by federal labor law. This ruling is consistent with other decisions recently issued by the NLRB, which have overturned longstanding precedent in favor of more employer-friendly standards. In February 2017, the Tobin Center for…
Trump Administration Seeking Presidential Authority to Remove CFPB Director, asking Supreme Court to Decide As the CFPB is currently structured, the head of the CFPB may only be ousted by the President for good cause. However, the Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court to take up a case[1] on certiorari to decide the issue of the CFPB’s constitutionality, ultimately seeking to allow the President the power to fire the head of the CFPB…
In Response to Vaping-Related Deaths and Injuries, Trump Administration To Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes; Impact on CBD an Open Question On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, in response to a number of highly-publicized vaping-related deaths and illnesses, the Trump Administration (the Administration) announced its intention to ban most flavored e-cigarette products.  While the Administration’s proposal would target nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) as tobacco products, it is not…
Artificial intelligence (AI) allows computers to mimic tasks typically performed by humans. The use of AI in many industries results from its ability to digest a large volume of data in a short amount of time. The insurance industry has great potential to use AI to provide more personalized solutions for customer needs. Kara Pike, an associate in the firm’s Insurance Practice, talks about how companies may use AI in the distribution of insurance,…
You’re Invited: Federal and State Employment Law Updates – Hosted by Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Labor & Employment Practice Please join us as the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice hosts our Executive Series, “Federal and State Employment Law Update” on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. This program will be live streamed from our Philadelphia office to each of the following Firm offices. (When registering, please be sure to indicate your choice of location). Baltimore –…
Insurers Beware: Choice of Law Provisions May be Overridden by Public Policy Provisions In answering two questions posed to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court on August 29, 2019, addressed two significant issues: 1) whether California’s common law notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy for the purpose of choice of law analysis; and 2) if so, whether the notice-prejudice rule applies to the consent provision of the insurance…
11th Circuit Finds Receipt Of A Single Unsolicited Text Message Fails To Confer Article III Standing Under The TCPA In Salcedo v. Hanna, No. 17-14077 (11th Cir. Aug. 28, 2019), the 11th Circuit considered whether receipt of a single unsolicited text message was sufficient to confer Article III standing to sue for a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The court found it was not and in doing so, it rejected decisions…
Effective August 20, 2019, Illinois law provides that a maximum of 10 percent retainage may be withheld from payments under private construction contracts and, after the contract is one-half complete, retainage must be reduced to 5 percent and kept at 5 percent for the remainder of the contract.  With this new law, Illinois joins the vast majority of states that have enacted laws pertaining to retainage on construction contracts.  Like almost every other state, Illinois’ retainage restrictions are…
CFPB Continues Its Enforcement In Less Than Traditional Areas of Consumer Protection; This Time it is Remittances The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 a consent order entered into with Maxitransfers Corp., a Texas-based money transmitter, following its investigation of Maxitransfers’ compliance with the Remittance Rule’s regulations concerning transmission error-resolution policies and consumer disclosures. The Remittance Rule was promulgated pursuant to The Dodd Frank Act and implements requirements of…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District Florida settled its allegations against a Central Florida contractor accused of violating the Small Business Administration’s regulations by allegedly creating a sham joint venture to be awarded a project. Click here for more information about the settlement. NASA sought bids for a demolition project that was funded by the Small Business Administration (“SBA”).  A requirement of the project was that it be awarded to a business that…