According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has issued fair credit guidance to assist auto dealers in complying with the CFPB’s March 2013 indirect fair lending bulletin. The bulletin stopped...
Last week, the Colorado Community Rights Network, an activist group that opposes hydraulic fracturing, filed a proposed ballot initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to give municipalities extraordinarily broad authority to regulate for-profit...
Resources nationalism is not confined to Africa. In 2009, the Indonesian Parliament passed a new Mining Law (Law No. 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining). In addition to replacing the established "Contract of Work" system with a permitting (IUP)...
On January 22, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York trimmed claims from a lawsuit brought by the National Credit Union Administration Board, as liquidating agent for various federal credit unions,...
Employee Jones tells Human Resources that employee Smith has been making sexually offensive comments at work. Jones provides dates and details. Human Resources interviews Smith, who says Jones is making up the story and categorically denies making...
It has been widely reported that during his State of the Union address the President will announce a plan to issue an executive order requiring construction workers on federal projects be paid a minimum wage of at least $10.10 an hour....
The federal defendants in a Colorado case involving a cantaloupe listeria outbreak were sentenced today to probation and six months of home detention, the Associated Press reports.
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Employers who wish to employ workers in the H-1B “specialty occupation” category starting on October 1, 2014, cannot file those applications earlier than six months in advance, or prior to April 1, 2014. The government has established an annual...
Battles between brand owners are frequently fought in the United States in two forums: the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and federal district court. While the TTAB is limited to determining a party’s right to register its trademark, district...
