It is no secret that many commercial real estate (CRE) properties are struggling. The dramatic increase in interest rates over the past few years and employers’ evolving mindsets regarding the use of office space are creating…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial
Is an employee on an extended leave of absence due to a long-term medical condition protected from employment termination by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? The answer depends on multiple factors, including whether…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On October 14, 2024, Wake County Superior Court Judge A. Graham Shirley II signed an order granting a preliminary injunction that allows high school student-athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL). While…
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/ Administrative Law, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Education Law
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed an open banking rule (Proposed Rule) requiring certain financial institutions to allow consumers and approved third-party financial service providers to allow access…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy
As you are no doubt aware, Election Day is only about three weeks away. As you have no doubt also heard, the country is deeply divided over many issues that are “hot button” topics in the plethora of political ads now…
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/ Civil Rights, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
Suncakes NC, LLC, a North Carolina-based company, and Suncakes, LLC, a Texas-based company doing business as IHOP (collectively “Suncakes”), will pay $40,000 and provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination and…
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/ Business Torts, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
North Carolina employees are increasingly testing positive for illegal marijuana use while contending that they were only using legal hemp-derived products sold over the counter in this State. Some employees assert that these…
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/ Civil Rights, Health, Labor & Employment Law
Earlier this year, we wrote about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enacting a final rule to ban most all forms of non-compete agreements between employers and employees in the United States (available here). The ban was set…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law, Consumer Protection
The Family and Medical Leave Act provides leave and job protection to eligible employees who need to be absent from work “because of the birth of a son or daughter of the employee and in order to care for such son or daughter.” …
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Business Torts, Family Law
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine. In overturning forty years of precedent, the Court has shifted power away from federal agencies to judges. The impact of this decision will be felt by all…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Torts, Labor & Employment Law
First Republic vs Republic First: A Comparison -
First Republic’s Troubles -
First Republic, which had been supervised by the FDIC since 2018 and received largely positive examination ratings throughout, was determined…
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/ Bankruptcy, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
The first bank to meet its demise in 2024 is smaller than its 2023 counterparts. In 2023 we saw Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and First Republic Bank (“First Republic”) fail. The most recent bank to experience a failure bears a…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
A federal judge in Louisiana granted a temporary injunction that prevents the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) from enforcing protections for workers seeking an abortion…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
On Monday, June 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a contest providing venture-capital funding to only Black women was substantially likely to violate section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
2023 and the start of 2024 presented challenging economic conditions to the market, with debt costs at a historic high. Following a series of increases over the last two years, the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate is…
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/ Bankruptcy, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
