Article
Published 01/24/2020
Industries Cannabis Law | Real Estate
Services Real Estate Services
Blog Post
Published 01/24/2020
By Ryan L. DiClemente
Alert
Published 01/22/2020
By Candace R. McLaren
Industries Higher Education
On January 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education issued the final regulations to adjust the Department's Civil Monetary Payments (CMPs) for inflation. These final regulations provide the 2020 annual inflation adjustments as applied to the penalty amounts that, under the Department's Final Register, published on February 1, 2019, may be levied against institutions of higher education for violations of the Clery Act and the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA). These adjustments are required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. While...
Blog Post
Published 01/21/2020
By Ronald R. Fieldstone
Article
Published 01/16/2020
Industries Private Equity and Venture Capital
Services Corporate | Private Equity
Article
Published 01/15/2020
Services Litigation | Securities Litigation
Article
Published 01/14/2020
Industries Cannabis Law
Services Labor and Employment
Article
Published 01/13/2020
Services Labor and Employment
Alert
Published 01/10/2020
Services Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation
This month's Friday Five covers recent cases addressing: (1) the scope of ERISA’s administrative exhaustion requirement; (2) whether ERISA permits a claim for “equitable estoppel through silence”; (3) the reasonableness of an insurer’s interpretation of an ambiguous SSDI award; (4) the quantum of proof required to link a physiological disorder to a mental illness; and (5) whether a policy requirement of a “significant change” in a claimant’s health may be read to encompass only instantaneous changes. The Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr Employee Benefits/ERISA Litigation Team January 10, 2020...
Alert
Published 01/09/2020
By Jonathan A. Havens, Lauren A. Farruggia
Industries Cannabis Law | Food, Beverage and Agribusiness
A new decade is upon us, as are substantial federal and state policy, regulatory, and enforcement developments for the tobacco, cannabis, and food and beverage industries. Over the past few weeks, alone: President Trump signed H.R. 1865 into law, which bans the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21; The Trump Administration (the Administration) finalized its partial ban on flavored e-cigarette products, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its enforcement policy on unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes that appeal to children; The U.S. Department of...
Blog Post
Published 01/09/2020
By Jonathan A. Havens
Alert
Published 01/07/2020
By James A. Keller, Samantha R. Gross
Industries Health Care | Higher Education
On December 19, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released updated joint guidance addressing the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to student education and health records. First issued in November 2008, the joint guidance clarifies how HIPAA and FERPA apply to educational institutions, school administrators, healthcare providers, family members and others when it comes to student...
Alert
Published 01/07/2020
By Henry A. Platt, Lisa M. Koblin
Services Labor and Employment
California businesses should prepare to implement a fresh list of New Year's resolutions, thanks to the influx of new laws, regulations and legal battles that have come about within the first hours of 2020. California has long been at the forefront of implementing industry-setting rules and employee-friendly regulations that impact business operations statewide, and this year is no exception. As summarized below, employers need to be aware of key updates to employment laws impacting all industries statewide, including new laws governing independent contractor classifications, arbitration...
Alert
Published 01/07/2020
By Chad E. Davis, Richard B. Carroll, Elizabeth S. Fenton, William E. Manning, Marshall B. Paul
Services Corporate
In 2019, Delaware’s Court of Chancery and Supreme Court expanded the potential fruits of a “books and records” demand under 8 Del. C. § 220 to reach the electronic communications among board members and other corporate officers. Deal planners and others advising corporate fiduciaries need to understand those circumstances or risk seeing their client’s informal (and often more revealing) communications featured in a complaint asserting breaches of fiduciary duty. The right to review corporate records, codified from common law, has long been a fundamental tool with which stockholders may...
Article
Published 01/05/2020
Services Estate Planning and Administration | Tax
Blog Post
Published 01/03/2020
By Ryan L. DiClemente
