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Ohio Supreme Court Rules That Municipalities Could Temporarily Collect Income Tax From Remote Workers During Pandemic

On February 14, 2024, in Schaad v. Alder, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the constitutionality of a temporary Ohio law allowing municipalities where a principal place of business was located to collect income tax from...more

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Ohio Supreme Court Issues Important Municipal Income Tax Decision on Remote Work

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The Ohio Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Schaad v. Alder, Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-525, decided on February 14, 2024. ...more

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Wash. Federal Judge Pokes Hole in New Wave of Vaccine Mandate Challenges

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer worked diligently to develop safe and effective vaccines. Following the FDA’s approval of these vaccines, many state governments and private...more

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Religious Institutions Update: January 2024

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Failure to Extend Extracurricular Opportunities to Parochial School Students Violates Free Exercise In Religious Rights Foundation of Pa. v. State College Area Sch. Dist., No. 23-CV-01144, 2023 WL 8359957 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 1,...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

State Medicaid Redeterminations Following the End of the COVID-19 Era Continuous Enrollment Requirem

At the onset of the COVID pandemic in March of 2020, Congress made an important policy decision: continued access to health coverage was crucial, especially because, at the time, it was uncertain how the economy would...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Employer Considerations in the Aftermath of the Dobbs Decision

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

New Federal Court Decisions Continue Vaccine Mandate Debates

In our experience, most employers outside of the health care industry have largely lost interest in mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. Given the less lethal variants that cause most current infections, along with lowered rates...more

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The First Circuit Dismisses Former UMass Students’ Appeal Challenging Vaccine Policies as Moot

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On Thursday, August 4, 2022, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed as moot an appeal that was brought by two former University of Massachusetts students claiming that the schools’ vaccine policies were unconstitutional...more

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Lawsuit Filed Challenging Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Preference for ‎Disadvantaged Government Contractors

In an effort to counteract the economic damage wrought by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in November of 2021. Part of that bill set aside $370 billion to improve and expand...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

North Carolina Appellate Court Says Civil Litigants Have Constitutional Right to the Physical Presence of Counsel During...

A North Carolina hospital defending a medical malpractice action was denied constitutional due process when the trial court, citing pandemic-related health concerns, forbade its attorneys from being physically present with...more

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Federal Court Rejects Legal Challenges to Mandatory Vaccination Policies

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A federal court recently issued a ruling in one of the first lawsuits in South Carolina challenging mandatory vaccinations. In Bauer v. Summey, employees of the City of North Charleston, the City of Charleston, and the St....more

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Bring On Q4 - September 2021 - COVID-19 Update: New York Governor Signs New Moratorium Effective until January 15, 2022

On September 2, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a new moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residential tenants and small businesses. Recently, in the case Chrysafis v. Marks, the U.S. Supreme...more

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Additional Eviction Obstacles For New York Landlords

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A federal eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that was scheduled to expire on July 31, 2021, has recently been extended, but faces some serious challenges and is causing...more

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FDIC Seeks Comment on Supervisory Approach to Examinations During Pandemic

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In This Issue. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is seeking information and comment regarding the FDIC’s supervisory approach to examinations during the pandemic; the FDIC’s tech lab, FIDTECH, announced a “tech...more

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Supreme Court Partially Blocks New York’s Eviction Moratorium; Block of Federal Eviction Moratorium Likely to Follow

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Eviction moratoria at both the state and federal levels are appearing increasingly vulnerable. On August 12, the U.S. Supreme Court partially enjoined New York’s eviction moratorium, concluding that the state’s...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Strikes Key Provision Of New York’s Anti-Eviction Law

On August 12, 2021, the United States Supreme Court agreed on procedural due process grounds to halt enforcement of part of New York’s COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (the “Act”), which is...more

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Appeals Court Rejects Bid to Block Indiana University Vaccine Policy

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Like many higher education institutions, Indiana University will require all students, faculty, and staff to get a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campus this fall, subject to certain exemptions. Eight students who...more

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Food and Beverage Law Update: July 2021

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"The overwhelming majority of courts have concluded that neither COVID-19 nor the governmental orders associated with it cause or constitute property loss or damage for purposes of insurance coverage." So concluded the...more

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This Week at the Ninth: Manuka Honey and Waterslides

This week, we take a look at a decision addressing what a “reasonable” consumer will know in purchasing a product (and distinguishing the Seventh Circuit in the process), and at another assessing the legality of Washington’s...more

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What You Should Know About Liability Waivers For Minors In Ohio

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As Ohio’s COVID restrictions are lifting, and families and organizations get back to regular sports and recreational activities, it is important to consider the legal contours of liability waivers that parents sign for their...more

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Public and Private Employees File First Challenges to Mandatory Vaccination Policies

In a pair of notable new lawsuits, employees of both public and private employers have filed legal challenges to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies. First, on April 16, 2021, in the Middle District of North Carolina, a...more

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A Recent Case Highlights Equal Protections In The American Rescue Plan Act

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A case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit highlights that, even in times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, prioritizing federal grant money based on race and gender will likely violate the equal...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 11

Welcome to the eleventh, post-Memorial Day issue of the 2021 edition of Unprecedented. As India and Peru experience record COVID-19 cases, many parts of the United States have reached a return to normality that was...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Remote Proceedings: Zooming Past Litigants’ Due Process Rights

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In January 2020, the Appellate Division considered an important question: how should a judge assess a party’s request to appear at a trial and present testimony by way of video transmission? The timing of this consideration...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Insisting on Live, In-person Arbitration Hearings During The Pandemic

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, parties to an arbitration agreement and arbitrators have grappled with the issue of the right to a live, in-person arbitration hearing. Is there a due process concern that flows from...more

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