Author: Mary Mae Miral

First Circuit Finds Employee’s Termination for Unexcused Absences May Be Pretext for Discrimination The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has confronted a seemingly innocuous case of firing an employee for absenteeism that has significant...

Clark County Is Now Offering Testing for Fentanyl Local health officials in Clark County are hoping that a quick and easy test able to detect Fentanyl may be able to reduce the growing wave of overdoses caused by the dangerous opioid. The Southern...

Federal District Court in California Finds Dialing From a Curated List Means no ATDS Another federal court in California has found that based upon the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the case of Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, that equipment that...

Student Loan Debt Relief Leads Scams Are on the Rise Many people have large student loans that they are having difficulty paying, and for some, the pandemic has made this worse. So many of these people are looking to find some relief from this...

Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Certain BBBA Immigration Provisions The Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has once again ruled against the inclusion of certain immigration-related provisions within the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) that...

NYC Issues Guidance on New Employer Vaccination Requirement On December 27th, 2021, all onsite employees, as well as those that will interact with the public in New York City, will be required to provide their employer with proof that they have...

California Jury Issues More than $150 Million Dollar Verdict In Response to  Fired Executive’s Claims California Juries have recently earned a reputation for awarding extremely large verdicts against employers in recent years, and this has...