With the weather forecast predicting record-setting snowfall in the Northeast, many employers are preparing to close operations again tomorrow. But how to handle snow days when it comes to calculating payroll? Here's the run-down. Let's start with exempt employees. The Fair Labor Standards Act ...

A friend and client, India born, was telling me about the different prior art search firms he had used. "The Indians are cheap, and you get what you pay for. They find something and they quit. They know nothing about litigation, or U.S. patent laws. They have no concept of story art. They just t ...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is designed to ensure public access to government records. But should inmate FOIA requests be honored to the same extent? Connecticut is at the center of a heated debate around whether state law should allow prison inmates to access to personal information, whi ...

On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked California's largest for profit health insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross, to send a letter detailing what she termed an "extraordinary" rate hike proposed for California customers. Blue Cross is owned by parent company Well P ...

The lack of enthusiasm, drive and willingness to do anything more on ObamaCare is the result of political malpractice on the part of the White House, the Speaker and Senator Reid. For all their deal making and arm twisting, the public, the interest groups, the staff and Members of Congress are disp ...

"[W]e conclude that San Francisco's policy requiring strip searches of all arrestees classified for custodial housing in the general population was facially reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, notwithstanding the lack of individualized reasonable suspicion as to the individuals searched." So hold ...

According to a feature article in this month's InsideCounsel one consultant who helps clients structure alternative fee arrangements "estimates that only about 2% of total legal billings currently are being done on alternative basis - but he contends it’s an increasing trend." That c ...

In todays culture of pink ribbons, yellow bracelets, and fundraising walks, it is not hard to imagine the multitude of ways an employer might learn about the genetic test or manifestation of a disease by a family member. Loved ones often become involved with organizations specific to the disease of ...

This interesting Los Angeles Times article by Sam Quinones is here. In part: Real said he fired in the air to scare onlookers as Renteria walked across the park and shot the parolee. (Renteria was charged last summer with Cordova's...

Judgment enforcement is a tricky thing. It's even harder when there are multiple creditors going after the same pot of money. In the case of Full Throttle Films, Inc. v. National Mobile Television, creditor Full Throttle tried to collect ~$400k....