A longtime supplier of peanut-butter-filled pretzels to Trader Joe's has filed an antitrust and breach-of-contract suit contending that the supermarket chain conspired with manufacturer ConAgra Foods Inc. to corner the market on the snack treat.
It’s already hard enough for California employers to keep track of and comply with the myriad federal and state background check laws. There’s California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA), California Labor Code Section 1024.5,...
On Wednesday, a Nebraska trial court struck down a state law allowing Governor Dave Heineman’s to approve the proposed route for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL Pipeline. The decision comes just weeks after the State Department released the final...
On January 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of Louisiana set aside a judgment of $257 million in civil penalties that a lower court had entered in favor of the state against Janssen under the Louisiana Medicaid false claims act, known as MAPIL. The...
The employment practices risk profile for companies that employ members of the same family may have just increased as a result of Dillon v. NED Management, Inc., a decision out of the Eastern District of New York....
News came out last week that chiropractor Stephen Jacobs of Lowell, MA is in hot water with the feds. Dr. Jacobs allegedly paid an IRS auditor $5,000 in cash to ignore two deductions he improperly took on this 2011 income tax form....
You may recall that we reported that United States Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would adopt the reasonable accommodation framework of the Americans with Disabilities Act for pregnant workers and...
The White House issued a statement in opposition of the House of Representatives’ passage of H.R. 3193, the Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013, citing that it would undermine critical Wall Street reforms and...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - The TPP is a multi-lateral trade agreement, currently being negotiated among a number of the nations which border the Pacific Ocean, including Australia and the USA. The parties had targeted the end...
In the January 2014 issue of the New Jersey eAuthority, we reported that the Senate had introduced a bill (S3087) that would permit employee leasing companies to have their unemployment insurance taxes determined on the basis of their client...
