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Connie N. Bertram; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 25, 2013 Plaintiff, former engineer for defendant Impact Science & Technology, Inc. (IST), brought suit against IST and related entities under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA) in 2007. A federal district court in Maryland granted summary judgment in favor of IST, finding that...
| | Although Funding Bill Offers Agencies More Discretion on Sequestration, Contractors Should Consider Employment Law Implications in Preparing for Additional Program Cuts
Connie N. Bertram; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 25, 2013 On March 21, 2013, the House of Representatives approved a spending bill that would provide funding for the federal government through September 30. The Senate had already passed the bill and President Obama is expected to sign it. Although the bill locks in the $85 billion in sequester cuts, it...
| | Federal Sick Leave Law Reintroduced to Congress
Michael J. Graham; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 22, 2013 On March 20, 2013, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) reintroduced the Healthy Families Act (“the Act”) to the United States Senate (S. 631) and House of Representative (bill number not yet available). Several iterations of the Act have failed to...
| | Survey of UK Alternative Investment Fund Managers Due March 28
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Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 22, 2013 The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has recently published online a survey for UK alternative investment fund (AIF) managers intending to seek authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
| | Still No EEOC Guidance on Permissible Wellness Program Incentives
Austen K. Townsend; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 22, 2013 Despite the clear support for employers’ continued and expansive use of wellness programs as a means of promoting health and preventing disease expressed in the Affordable Care Act and the recently-proposed rules implementing and expanding employment-based wellness programs...
| | Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow
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Legal Alert/Article March 26, 2013, previously published on March 2013 Arizona Snowbowl, a ski resort in Flagstaff, Arizona, recently became the first ski resort to make artificial snow entirely out of treated wastewater. The snow-coated slopes may mean more winter skiing in the Arizona desert, but now skiers have an additional mogul to look out for -- yellow snow! It...
| | Grades for Football Prospects Copyrightable, But Sports Writer Not Offside in Use
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Legal Alert/Article March 26, 2013, previously published on March 2013 Information about NFL draft prospects is not something that one would normally think of as a literary work, unless perhaps written up by, say, Coach Ernest “Papa” Hemingway. But a federal court recently ruled that grades assigned to NFL draft prospects by a scouting firm are...
| | Reversal of Fishy Court Opinion Gives Boat Crew Another Chance to Reel in a Million-Dollar Prize
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Legal Alert/Article March 26, 2013, previously published on March 2013 When the crewmembers of the fishing boat, the Citation, finally hand-lined aboard a record-setting 883-pound, 14-foot-long blue marlin after a three-hour long battle in federal waters off the coast of North Carolina, it was as if they had hauled in a waterlogged treasure chest filled with over...
| | USCIS Announces FY 2014 H-1B Cap Update: Cap May Be Reached During the First Week of Filing
Hallie A. Cohen, David Grunblatt, Valarie H. McPherson, Praveena N. Swanson, Jennifer B. Wexler; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 22, 2013, previously published on March 19, 2013 On Friday, March 15, USCIS announced how it plans to process FY 2014 H-1B cap filings. In the USCIS press release, USCIS indicated that it was preparing for the likelihood that the H-1B cap may be reached during the April 1 - April 5 filing period. The annual numerical limitation for H-1B visa...
| | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Remains In Limbo
Lloyd B. Chinn, Harris Michael Mufson, Steven J. Pearlman; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 20, 2013, previously published on March 19, 2013 The authority and leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a body created by Dodd-Frank to regulate consumer protection of financial products and services, continues to remain in limbo in the wake of the recent ruling by the United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia...
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