On Monday, December 14, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the “Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020,” which would provide another round of relief to combat the economic fallout resulting from COVID-19.
Alberta is the most recent Canadian province to enact enhanced public health measures in response to rapidly rising COVID-19 case numbers. These new restrictions are aimed at limiting social gatherings, which are the greatest source of virus transmission in the province....
In case privacy lawyers did not have enough to keep up with over the holiday season (as we’ve mentioned, there’s already plenty to keep up with in Europe and California), HHS’s Office for Civil Rights recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to revamp the HIPAA Privacy Rule....
On December 10, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) announcing its plan to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.
On November 13, the FHFA announced that it will extend several loan origination flexibilities until December 31 that were set to expire on November 30.
When thinking about class action lawsuits, most people envision legal proceedings occurring in the United States. However, class and collective proceedings modeled after those in the U.S. are becoming increasingly popular abroad – specifically in the U.K. and European Union (EU).
Congress took a significant step on Friday, December 11 to prevent the owners of “shell” limited liability companies, corporations and “similar entities” from using those entities to disguise their identities and transactions by passing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....
The Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc, has vacated a pre-Spokeo “beat the clock” class action settlement for lack of standing post-Spokeo. This decision is reflective of a developing trend in the Eleventh Circuit to undertake exacting reviews of class action settlements.
