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21 Jul 2020, 11:51 am by bhorton
As the National Network of Abortion Funds puts it, “Reproductive justice is as much about raising our children without fear of being killed by a police officer as it is about accessing an abortion. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 9:10 pm by Anthony Gaughan
  Under normal circumstances, the retirement of a state supreme court justice does not have national implications. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 9:03 pm by Lyle Denniston
  As the federal government tells the story of the mandate, Congress did no more than it has done countless times in the past, when it has seen a national problem coursing through the entire economy, and devised a national solution. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 2:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
One of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry, Halliburton employs more than 70,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities in more than 80 countries worldwide. [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 10:08 am by The Legal Blog
The Council for Public Interest Law set up by the Ford Foundation in USA defined "public interest litigation" in its report of Public Interest Law, USA, 1976 as follows: "Public Interest Law is the name that has recently been given to efforts provide legal representation to previously unrepresented groups and interests. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 4:41 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and insurers, their service providers that act as business associates within the meaning of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and employer and other health plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and other management leaders should heed the warnings contained in the new Resolution Agreement (FileFax Resolution Agreement) with former HIPAA business associate FileFax, Inc. announced by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights… [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
” What looks like empowerment in fact confers no benefit upon the patient but many benefits upon the manufacturer. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Restaurant employers should audit and tighten the employee wage, timekeeping and other wage and hour practices to minimize their exposure to heightened enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act and other federal wage and hour laws by the U.S. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 1:35 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
quickly to implement and communicate 2024 health spending account (“HFSA”), high deductible health plan amounts relevant to determining eligibility to contribute to a medical savings account (“MSA”), adoption credit and exclusion limits, and other inflation-adjusted limitations relevant to the annual enrollment, withholding and other year-end tax and benefit planning of workers and their families to assist workers to take into account these adjustments during 2024 benefit… [read post]
5 Nov 2023, 3:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses and their business associates (“Covered Entities” should check out this new Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) video intended to educate health care industry players about real world cyber-attack trends from OCR breach reports, OCR investigations and how implementation of appropriate Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Security Rile compliance can mitigate their exposure to… [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 1:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
quickly to implement and communicate 2024 health spending account (“HFSA”), high deductible health plan amounts relevant to determining eligibility to contribute to a medical savings account (“MSA”), adoption credit and exclusion limits, and other inflation-adjusted limitations relevant to the annual enrollment, withholding and other year-end tax and benefit planning of workers and their families to assist workers to take into account these adjustments during 2024 benefit… [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 7:59 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Federal government contractors and grant recipients should tighten cyber security policies, practices and internal controls to mitigate their exposure to civil False Claims Act claims by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) under a new DOJ Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative announced by DOJ last week. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 8:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The $3.5 million payment that Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is paying to the U.S. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 6:00 am by Yosie Saint-Cyr
In carrying out the mandate, the Task Force was asked to engage with provincial, territorial and municipal governments, Indigenous governments and representative organizations, youth, patients and experts in relevant fields. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 12:04 pm by Edith Roberts
Those cases establish, he explained, that “while the State cannot compel an individual simply to speak the State’s ideological message, it can use its regulatory authority to require a physician to provide truthful, non-misleading information relevant to a patient’s decision to have an abortion, even if that information might also encourage the patient to choose childbirth over abortion. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 10:59 am by Guest Blogger
Had it been “law for the layman,” or otherwise of public interest, it might constitute the nucleus and foundation of the law of evidence today. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 2:25 pm by Larry Downes
Circuit had wounded, but hadn’t actually exterminated, in the Comcast decision), but at the same time would not go as far as some advocates urged and put broadband Internet completely under the telephone rules of Title II. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The heavy reliance by group health plans and health insurers upon internet based applications and portals to carry out online enrollment, claims administration and payment, reporting and a host of other key health plan functions makes it particularly important for health plans, their employer or other sponsors, fiduciaries, vendors, and other involved in health plan administration or using or accessing health plan data to verify and ensure the internet data sharing and other applications and portals… [read post]