Legal Alerts
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November 30, 2023
Caution: Employee Social Media Protections Coming Your Way
In light of the absence of federal regulation, more than half of the states have now stepped in to regulate the social media privacy rights of employees. The most recent push for this move towards social media protections was implemented in New York in September. These additional employee protections add to the ever-growing list of employer obligations under state laws.
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November 16, 2023
New York City Employers Must Heed the Amended Rules Governing the NYC Earned Safe and Sick Time Act
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) recently adopted amended rules related to the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (“ESSTA”).
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November 15, 2023
Miami Office Secures Summary Judgment For Remediation Specialist In Toxic Tort Case
Miami Lewis Brisbois Partners Todd R. Ehrenreich, Troy P. Cunningham, and David L. Luck recently won a defense summary judgment in a toxic-tort action pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. See Vandestreek v. Lockheed Martin Corp., No. 6:21-cv-1570-RBD-DCI, 2023 WL 6396087, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 177550 (M.D. Fla. Sept. 27, 2023).
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November 14, 2023
Deadline to Adopt SEC-Compliant Clawback Policy is Fast Approaching
On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted Rule 10D-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) implementing section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), which required the SEC and the national securities exchanges to establish listing standards that require publicly listed companies to adopt and comply with a “clawback policy” for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation paid to their executive officers.
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November 13, 2023
Pennsylvania Federal Court Holds Broker Tort Claims Preempted by the FAAAA
A recent decision out of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania brings promising news to freight brokers conducting business throughout the Third Circuit. In Michael Lee, et al. v. Golf Transportation, Inc., et al., Case No. 3:21-cv-01948 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 7, 2023) a magistrate judge presiding over the matter granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of a freight broker defendant on the basis that the common law tort claims levied against it were preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (“FAAAA”), 40 U.S.C. § 14501(c)(1).
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November 06, 2023
U.S. Suspends Select Venezuela Sanctions Following Political Agreement
On October 18, 2023, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) suspended several Venezuela-related sanctions in response to a political agreement between the Maduro government and the Unitary Platform.
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November 06, 2023
President Biden Signs Executive Order to Guide AI Development, Commerce Department Establishes U.S. AI Safety Institute
President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on October 30, 2023 to guide the development of artificial intelligence. The Executive Order builds on previous voluntary commitments made by Big Tech and leading AI companies, as our previous alert reported. Two days later, on November 1, 2023, to coincide with Vice President Kamala Harris attending the “Safety Summit 2023” in London, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the creation of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (“USAISI").
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