On August 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities. The...more
By now, business owners and their counsel have become increasingly aware of the high volume of lawsuits filed across the country alleging that commercial websites violate Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act...more
In President Biden’s March 11, 2021 speech, he urged everyone to “stay vigilant” against the virus even as more vaccines are rolled out. The same applies to employers. Three recent developments—an employee lawsuit challenging...more
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On December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer. On December 18, 2020, the FDA granted similar approval to a vaccine developed by...more
More than 2,000 website accessibility lawsuits were filed in federal courts each year in 2018 and 2019, alerting business owners of the rising trend in website accessibility litigation. ...more
On the first day of the 2019 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued orders denying dozens of petitions for a writ of certiorari—a request that the Supreme Court take a case. ...more
In a November 17 memorandum, Attorney General Sessions prohibited DOJ agencies from using “guidance” documents to circumvent rulemaking. A DOJ Task Force charged with identifying existing regulations and guidance for repeal,...more
The DOJ has concluded that two medical schools had no lawful basis for excluding applicants who had active cases of Hepatitis B because they could not show that these individuals posed a direct threat to the health and safety...more