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DOJ Files a Statement of Interest in a Federal Lawsuit Against the NY Department of Health and Court Issues a Preliminary...

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As previously discussed, in Engesser v. McDonald, a class of Medicaid beneficiaries who receive personal care and home care services through New York’s CDPA Program (Consumers), and two independent living centers...more

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The Need for More Uniformity and Standardization in New Jersey’s Bid Protest Procedures

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Nearly 60 years ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court published one of its seminal bidding cases in Commercial Cleaning Corp. v. Sullivan, holding that a trial-type hearing is not required when challenging a bid award....more

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NY Federal Court Issues TRO Against the NY Department of Health

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As previously reported, in April 2024, New York’s Social Services Law was amended to include a substantial change to the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPA Program), a Medicaid-funded program allowing...more

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

Businesses Shuttered by COVID-19 Lockdowns Seek Supreme Court’s Revision of Modern Takings Law

Is a business temporarily closed by order of the government entitled to compensation? Two groups of plaintiffs have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court hoping not just for a “yes” but an overhaul of a half-century of regulatory...more

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Specific Personal Jurisdiction Established Through Indirect Evidence of Targeting a Market

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In a recent decision, California’s Third Appellate Division held that a foreign automobile manufacturer could be haled into a state court in California through the indirect actions of its distributor without offending...more

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Let’s Get Specific: Rhode Island Court Asserts Jurisdiction Over Out-of-State Manufacturer

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The court granted the third-party defendant’s first motion to dismiss for lack of general jurisdiction but permitted the parties to conduct jurisdictional discovery. After the close of jurisdictional discovery, the...more

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New California Emergency Hemp Regulations Draw the Ire of National Hemp Trade Group and Notorious Stoners Alike

As we discussed during a recent webinar, the new emergency regulations would disrupt the existing hemp market in California and effectively ban the production and sale of all intoxicating hemp products in the state. ...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Land Use Challenges Showcase What’s There for the ‘Taking’

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The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just...more

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Colorado Cannabis Company Challenges Recent Revisions to the State’s Marijuana Tracking Regulations

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A Colorado manufacturer of cannabis-infused edible products is suing the Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) of the Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) to challenge the validity of recent revisions to its inventory...more

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Got Remote Workers? Supreme Court of Ohio Upholds Pandemic Rule for Municipality Tax

The Supreme Court of Ohio has held the Ohio legislature did not violate the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution by directing an Ohio citizen to pay taxes to the municipality where the employee’s principal place of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Reinstates Statutory “Consent” to General Personal Jurisdiction

On June 27, 2023, the United States Supreme Court decided Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 2023 WL 4187749, 600 U.S. ___ (June 27, 2023), a decision that likely will reinvigorate forum-shopping efforts by plaintiffs...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Lawyer Discipline for Discriminatory Speech - A Pennsylvania Decision Raises Questions About Maryland Rule 19-308.4(e)

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A federal judge has held that Pennsylvania’s Rule 8.4(g),1 which subjects lawyers to professional discipline for engaging in discriminatory conduct, violates both the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due...more

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Dissident Board Member Not Deprived of Civil Rights by Cold Shoulder of Majority

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Kathleen Wright Croft v. Donegal Township, 2021 WL 1110567 (W.D. Pa. 2021) (A township supervisor’s motion for a preliminary injunction against her fellow supervisors was denied upon finding that she was not deprived of...more

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[Podcast] What is Unclaimed Property/Escheat?

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What in the world is unclaimed property and escheat? And why are tax people dealing with it? Matt Hunsaker gives a basic high-level overview of the world of unclaimed property....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Maryland Breaks Ground with Digital Advertising Tax

Overriding the governor’s veto of H.B. 732 (2020), the Maryland Senate on February 12, 2021 passed the nation’s first state tax on the digital advertising revenues pulled in by large companies. This development follows...more

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Maryland Passes Digital Advertising Tax, Now Being Challenged in Court

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The Maryland state legislature voted on February 12 to override Governor Larry Hogan’s veto and thus enacted the Digital Advertising Act, the first tax of its kind in the United States. Other states such as Indiana, New York,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Mitigating the Risk of Loss of a Delinquent Collateral Asset in the Era of Autonomous Zones

Following the death of George Floyd during his arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, America experienced months of civil unrest throughout the country. It was during these protests that some began to assert that civil society in...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

COVID-19 Update: We’re All in This Together, but Landlords Are About to Take a Bath – SDNY Upholds Constitutionality of NYC’s...

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded upon New York City, policymakers grappled with impossible decisions regarding how to protect public health and stave off economic ruin for individuals, businesses and the economy at large....more

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Dereliction of Duty: Can Local Governments Be Liable for Not Protecting Property from Protestors?

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Eager to spark the socialist revolution, left-wing activists seized Ramsett Park and the surrounding area and declared an independent autonomous community dedicated to social and economic justice. While that hypothetical...more

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Pennsylvania Federal Judge Finds Governor Wolf’s Pandemic Restrictions Unconstitutional

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Pennsylvania’s gathering limitations, business shutdown and stay-at-home orders violate the United States Constitution, according to a federal judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania, who enjoined enforcement of those...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Supreme Court Upholds Cleveland Municipal Income Tax on Nonresident’s Stock Option Income

A former Ohio resident could not avoid Cleveland municipal income tax even after retiring and moving to Florida. The Ohio Supreme Court held income generated from employee stock options received as compensation while employed...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Florida Real Property & Business Litigation Report, Volume 13, Issue 26

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Liu v. Securities And Exchange Commission, Case No. 18–1501 (2020). Equitable relief, including disgorgement, is permissible under the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U. S. C. §77a et seq., so long as it does not exceed a...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Looking Past the Pandemic: Local Government Quasi-Judicial Proceedings

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In this next part of our “what’s next” in North Carolina land use series we look at public meetings, which are an essential part of land use permitting.  In particular, we look at quasi-judicial proceedings past the pandemic....more

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Do the COVID-19 Shutdowns Constitute Takings Or Due Process Violations?

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A class-action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania late last week alleges that Governor Wolf’s orders closing non-life sustaining business constitute a taking requiring just compensation under the Fifth...more

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Proposed Legislation in New York Would Suspend Some Rent Payments

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The New York Legislature is considering a pair of bills that would provide relief for some of those residential or commercial tenants that have either lost their jobs or been forced to close during the current crisis. ...more

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