Business Litigation Blog Website Accessibility Lawsuits: 5 Things Every Arizona Business Should Know August 19, 2019 After an 18 month hiatus, ADA accessibility lawsuits are once again being filed in Arizona’s federal courts. Unlike previous ADA lawsuits (which focused on physical barriers to accessibility), this new wave of lawsuits alleges that business websites and mobile apps are not accessible to those with hearing and/or visual impairments. Here are five things that every business owner should…

Business Litigation Blog New Tax Incentive for Development in Low-Income Communities, Part I August 16, 2018 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), enacted on December 22, 2017, includes a provision that provides tax benefits to investors that develop in Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs), which were created to stimulate economic development and job creation in distressed communities. Part I of this seven-part series on QOZs provides an overview of the enactment of the…

Business Litigation Blog The U.S. Supreme Court Nexus Required for State Taxation of Online Sales: But Questions Still Remain June 22, 2018 Yesterday morning, the United States Supreme Court announced its highly anticipated decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, 585 U.S. __ (No. 17-494, 2018) in which it revisited the Court’s long-standing precedent that a state may only tax businesses that establish “nexus” with a state by having a sufficient physical presence in that state.…

Business Litigation Blog FATCA and FBAR: The IRS is discontinuing its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program March 30, 2018 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last week that it will terminate its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program as of September 28, 2018. Taxpayers who have not reported foreign bank accounts and income now have only six months to do so. In the mid-2000s, the IRS began aggressively pursuing foreign financial institutions for information concerning deposits held by…

Business Litigation Blog Jennings Strouss Wins Unprecedented Arizona “Lemon Law” Lawsuit September 2017 Phoenix commercial trial attorney Christopher D. Lonn won a favorable verdict in a three-year “lemon law” litigation against  BMW of North America (BMW N.A.). This is the first known verdict in Arizona (and possibly the United States) where a jury found that excessive brake noise is a defect under a governing “lemon law” statute.  Mr. Lonn represented Dr. Jason Nordean and his…

Litigation Blog Businesses Beware: Don‘t Get Hooked into Paying for Forms You Don’t Need March 22, 2017 Practice Area: Business Litigation Over the years, I have come across what appear to be “official” correspondences from companies portraying themselves as state-related representatives. Their purpose is to “scare” a business into hiring them to prepare form corporate documents, stating that all corporations must file annual reports with the Arizona State Corporation Commission; however, many businesses, such as…

Litigation Blog Do You Know Where the Data Is? February 22, 2017 Practice Area: Business Litigation Even with new rules governing proportionality and relevance, preserving and collecting electronically stored data remains an issue in many litigations. Virtually all modern communication is electronic; not just conversations, but all facets of business and personal exchanges.  And the sources of that electronic data continue to evolve. Just when the eDiscovery industry got a handle on collecting Outlook Exchange Servers,…