On March 19, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued guidance clarifying how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives intersect with Title VII of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued an interim final rule that would exempt U.S. companies and U.S. persons from reporting their beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) as part of the Corporate…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
As the new year continues, it is useful to review your practice’s processes and policies to ensure that the practice operates with efficiency and remains compliant with ever-changing healthcare regulations…
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/ Health
Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) and Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (“IWOWA”) became effective February 21, 2025. Last minute bills, passed earlier this week and just before midnight Thursday,…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
A Texas federal judge has ordered a stay of a nationwide injunction that placed the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) filing requirements on hold. As a result, the CTA’s reporting requirements are back in effect. FinCEN has…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
As the new year begins, it is useful to review your practice’s processes and policies to ensure that the practice operates with efficiency and remains compliant with ever-changing healthcare regulations…
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/ Health, Privacy
The Michigan Supreme Court released an opinion yesterday holding that a municipality may not disguise a tax by imposing a utilities franchise fee upon consumers through a utilities franchise agreement when that agreement causes…
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/ Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities, Taxation
On January 13, 2025, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation (Michigan House Bill No. 5100) establishing a research and development tax credit (the “Michigan R&D Tax Credit”) in Michigan effective for tax years…
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/ Business Organizations, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) will become effective on February 21, 2025. Last minute bills have been introduced by both the House and Senate, designed to address serious issues ESTA presents to Michigan employers…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its earlier stay of the injunction suspending the reporting deadlines for the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”)…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
The federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit entered an order on December 23, 2024 reinstating the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) year-end filing deadline.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Texas ordered a…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule regulations have been updated to impose additional requirements on covered entities to safeguard the privacy of reproductive health related…
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/ Constitutional Law, Health, Privacy
On December 9, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) adopted new rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) banning certain uses of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE).
Most…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Toxic Torts
Since the 1940’s, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) has held the position that mandatory meetings with employees where the employer expresses its views on unions, typically referred to as “Captive Audience…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
A federal court in Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on December 3, 2024 that puts enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) on hold…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
