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Employment Flash - November 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/16/2023

...NLRB Issues Final Rule on ‘Joint Employer’ Standard On - October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a final rule titled “Standard for Determining Joint Employer Status,” which rescinds and...more

Court Holds That FISA Doesn’t Trump the State Secrets Privilege and Restores the Capital Murder Conviction of the Boston Marathon...

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/7/2022

The Supreme Court decided two more cases today, one unanimously, the other anything but so....more

Supreme Court Decides Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 3/7/2022

On March 4, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga, No. 20-828, holding that Section 1806(f) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), which establishes procedures...more

The Supreme Court - March 4, 2022

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 3/7/2022

United States v. Tsarnaev, No. 20-443: This case concerns the death penalty imposed on one of the two brothers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who planted and detonated bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding...more

The Supreme Court - June 7, 2021

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/8/2021

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision: Sanchez v. Mayorkas, No. 20-315: The immigration laws provide a path under 8 U.S.C. §1255 for a “nonimmigrant” - a foreign national lawfully...more

Drone Operators Beware….Michigan Appellate Court Opines On Privacy

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/29/2021

In a new decision, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held that when it comes to privacy and aerial surveillance, a landowner has a greatly enhanced expectation of privacy when unmanned aircraft are involved. The decision,...more

MoFocus: Our Insights into the Risk + Crisis Landscape - Vol.1 Issue. 2

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/23/2017

Arrest of a Chinese National on Hacking Charges Illustrates How U.S. Tactics Are Changing to Meet the New Cyber Threat - In August, Yu Pingan, a Chinese national, was arrested on charges that he conspired to acquire and...more

Come Back With a Warrant: Proposed Rule Change Expands the Government’s Ability to Access Electronically Stored Information in...

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 5/18/2016

On April 28, 2016 the United States Supreme Court proposed a modification to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 that significantly alters the manner in which the government can obtain search warrants to access computer...more