Dealing with – or being – a minority shareholder can be problematic, and friction between majority and minority owners is not uncommon. The majority owner may find itself hamstrung in its efforts to conduct business by the...more
Over the past year, the big story has been the search for vaccines to protect people from Covid-19. You can’t vaccinate a business, but Arizona businesses are now protected from liability related to Covid-19. ...more
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Anyone involved in the vaping business, or anyone who does business with the vaping industry, needs to be aware of big changes in federal law taking effect this month. On March 27, 2021, the “Preventing Online Sales of...more
Businesses and people alike each have recurring routine tasks they need to perform to stay in good shape. Every year we prepare corporate filings, undergo our necessary medical examinations, and file our taxes.1 And starting...more
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission published a new endorsement guide aimed at helping social media influencers understand their disclosure obligations under federal advertising law. If you’re at all involved in...more
On June 25, 2019, the Arizona Supreme Court released its opinion in Sky Harbor v Patel, to answer some long-standing questions about the duties that LLC members and managers have to their LLC under Arizona common law. The...more
It’s no surprise that many employers include mandatory arbitration provisions in their employment agreements. Agreements to arbitrate continue to be upheld in courts and the arbitration process can be faster, less expensive,...more
This article is a follow-up to my January 30, 2019 article on the rising desire amongst videogame industry employees to become union-represented.
UPDATE – On Friday, February 15, 2019, the AFL-CIO, the largest federation...more
It’s a secret to nobody that the games industry has evolved into a huge economic and corporate force. The global games market, valued at $134 billion in 2018, continues to grow steadily with no signs of slowing down. But even...more
The biggest Star Wars story at the end of 2017 was the release of The Last Jedi in theatres. But another Star Wars story from that timeframe may have a larger impact on the world (no, I’m not talking about the upcoming Solo...more
We’ve all seen them: hard-to-remove stickers that say, “Warranty void if removed,” or “Tampering with this sticker voids the warranty.” Or perhaps a company states or implies that your use of a third-party repair service will...more
This article is a follow-up to our January 29, 2018 article which discussed the United States Solicitor’s December 22, 2017 Memorandum Opinion, M-37050 (the “M-Opinion”). To provide a quick recap of that article, the...more
In his January 30, 2018 State of the Union address, the President declared that he had eliminated more regulations in his first year than any other administration’s first year. Part of that claim may arise out of a...more
I. Background -
Just over a month ago, on December 22, 2017, the United States Solicitor’s office issued a Memorandum Opinion (referred to herein as the “M-Opinion”) reversing the Obama-era policy of interpreting the...more
Technology moves fast. The law…does not. Our legal system relies on history and precedent, and so it takes time (sometimes a lot of time) before judges and lawyers can figure out how to shoehorn new technology into existing...more
When it comes to the False Claims Act, the government usually wins, but a recent decision should provide the healthcare industry with a rare sigh of relief. The opinion in United States v. AseraCare Inc.1 acknowledges the...more