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Ninth Circuit Green Lights Contractor Vaccine Mandate

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On April 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a permanent injunction that had enjoined President Biden’s “Contractor Vaccine Mandate,” taking an expansive view of presidential authority under the...more

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Carroll v. Trump, Redux: Why Would Congress Want to Have State Law Determine the President's Scope of Employment When the...

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The Justice Department’s invited amicus curiae brief in Blassingame v. Trump1 exposes another anomaly in treating the President’s scope of employment as a question of state tort law for purposes of the Westfall Act. In...more

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Water . . . The 11th Circuit Revives Executive Order 14042

With apologies to Jaws II, just when you thought it was safe, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has released a shark back into the EO 14042 waters. On Friday, August 26, the 11th Circuit published a 66-page...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: March 2022

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Federal Judge Puts Vaccine Mandate for Federal Employees on Hold

A federal district court judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking implementation of the White House’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal employees. The judge relied on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Nationwide Injunction Against Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate ‎

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, in The State of Georgia, et. al. v. Biden, et. al., Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a...more

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Georgia District Court Enjoins Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide

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On December 6, we noted on this blog post that because the injunction issued by the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on November 30 prohibiting the government from enforcing the government contractor...more

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In the Crossfire: What Florida HR Directors Need to Know about Recent State and Federal COVID-19 Vaccination Legislation

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On November 4, 2021, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) requiring employers with more than 100 employees to, among other things,...more

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Canada: Supreme Court Limits Safety Inspection Duty of Federally-regulated Employers to Workplaces under their Control

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In Canada Post Corp. v. Canadian Union of Postal Workers, 2019 SCC 67, one of the last decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) in 2019, the court clarified the extent of a federally-regulated employer’s inspection...more

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Third Circuit Agrees with Other Appeals Courts – Federal Employees may Bring Retaliation Claims under Title VII

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On March 12, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified in a published opinion that federal employees may bring retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 even though the...more

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Investment Services Regulatory Update - August 2017

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On August 7, 2017, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert providing a summary of the staff’s observations from sweep exams of broker-dealers, investment advisers and funds...more

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EEOC Issues Quality Practices Plan on Federal Sector Hearings, Appeals and Oversight Functions

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today published Federal Sector Quality Practices (FSQP) to address the quality of the agency's hearings and appeals in federal employee employment...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Eighth Circuit Opinions Highlight Need to Apply Appellate Lens at Trial Court

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We often quip that the best way to establish a winning record as an appellate lawyer is to represent the party that won below; that’s no joke. In nearly every appellate court— state or federal— appellants have an uphill...more

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Resignation triggers clock start for filing constructive discharge claims

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Federal law requires a governmental employee to file a constructive discharge claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within 45 days of the “matter alleged to be discriminatory.” The vagueness of that phrase...more

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Supreme Court Clarifies Appeals Rights For Federal Employees

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On December 10, 2012, the Supreme Court handed down a critical victory to federal employees in a highly technical case. This decision now gives federal employees a simpler and less confusing process for appealing...more

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