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Qualifying Parties May Now Have to Face Personal Liability for Construction Company’s Obligations
February 11, 2021
Last year’s changes to the contractor’s licensing laws opened the door to personal liability for qualifying parties (“QP”). The Legislature added Section B to A.R.S. § 32-1127. Section B reads: “While engaged as a qualifying party for a licensee, the qualifying party is responsible for any violation of this chapter by the licensee.”
What are “any…
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Things to Consider When Doing Business in Arizona: Unique Aspects of Arizona Law – From Cumulative Voting to Blue Pencils, Blind Trusts and Guns at Work
September 24, 2015
Arizona is a great place to do business. It boasts an excellent regulatory environment, envious climate, skilled workers, fair tax rates, good transportation facilities, and a growing pool of consumers. In addition, CNBC ranked Arizona among the top fifteen of its “America’s …
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Beware of Caller ID “Spoofing” Scam
February 19, 2016
Practice Area: Business Litigation
Attorneys and their clients have joined the ranks of victims affected by a new scam that attempts to obtain personal and financial information for fraudulent use.
The process is referred to as Caller ID “spoofing.” It allows callers to deliberately falsify the information transmitted to Caller ID displays, effectively disguising their real identity. Spoofing is used to trick someone into…