In its decision vacating the United States Department of Education’s 2024 Title IX Regulations on January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky found that the Department of Education exceeded its…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Inauguration Day is upon us, and with the Presidential change comes several anticipated changes to federal employment agency initiatives. We are likely to see federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) is a program that allows commercial property owners to finance clean energy improvements such as energy efficiency upgrades, water conservation, renewable energy installations…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial
The North Carolina Court of Appeals’ recent decision on December 3, 2024 in Abitol v. Clark highlights the critical role of clear drafting in estate planning and raises novel legal questions regarding the inheritance rights of…
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/ Civil Procedure, Family Law, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Each year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) releases a report detailing the number and type of lawsuits the agency filed during the previous 12-month period. For fiscal year 2024 (October 1, 2023 to…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a closely watched decision, on November 15, 2024, Judge Sean Jordan of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a ruling (“Ruling”), which struck down a final rule (“Rule”) by the U.S…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
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
