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Welcome back to other Top 10 blogs in Law! This week was marked by a mysterious sense of deja vu. LexBloggers has weighed President Donald Trump's refusal to sign a bill extending funding to nine different government departments, dramatically increasing the likelihood of another government arrest, potentially the third arrest in 2018. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) , otherwise known as Obamacare, was again declared unconstitutional, this time by a district court judge from Texas. Other important stories have included discussions about how blockchain technology can drive the US real estate market up by $ 217 billion and has proposed changes to the law on correct and accurate credit transactions (FACTA). Happy holiday!
Navigation between the Potential Government Shutdown: LexBlog Perspectives – By Melissa Lin: House Speaker Paul Ryan announced today that President Donald Trump will not sign a Senate-approved stopgap funding law unless it includes funding for the border wall, dramatically increasing the risk of a partial arrest of the government. This will mark the closing of the third government of 2018. Funding for nine federal departments, including departments of the State, Justice, Transport and Agriculture … View Full Article
Rules of the ACA Unconstitutional Federal District Court – By Alan H. Bowie, Jr., Mark Williams and Nick ZainoOn December 14, 2018, a Texas federal district court held in Texas against the United States that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. The court also concluded that, because the individual mandate can not be severed by ACA, the entire law is not valid. Background As you can remember, the ACA has both a … View the complete article
New York offers innovative carbon prices for electricity – By Mark Perlis, Bill Massey and Bud Earley: The price of carbon is considered by many to be an effective means of reducing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by the generation of electricity. California and several eastern states have promulgated "cap and trade" emission programs, which have forced the producers of these states to pay a price for their CO2 emissions. With the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan not … View the full post
Launch of the massive affiliation campaign – By Chris Grim: Last week, LexBlog started a membership campaign to connect as many quality law blogs as possible. Kevin O & # 39; Keefe, CEO of LexBlog, and Bob Ambrogi, Editor in Chief, sat down to talk about recent events surrounding the campaign and the world of legal marketing. Kevin O & # 39; Keefe: I'm here with Bob Ambrogi, editor in chief and editor … View the full article
The Federal Court supports the first amendment entitled to secretly register public officials in public – By William Dalsen: Last week, in Martin v. Gross, Chief Judge Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts gave a summary judgment in favor of our clients, finding the statute on interception of Massachusetts (Mass. Gen. L. chapter, § 99 ) unconstitutional if applied to secret records of government officials performing their tasks in public … View the full post
Highlights of the Arizona Department of Labor Research in the United States Need to raise awareness about breastfeeding in the workplace Laws and policies on housing – Di Deirdre Salsich: As a result of an investigation by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor (WHD), a hospital in Arizona has recently been ordered to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that employers must provide breastfeeding mothers adequate time and space to express breast milk. The WHD announced December 11 that … View the complete article
FATCA: significant relief in the proposed new regulations – By Jeremy Naylor, Amanda H. Nussbaum and Martin T. Hamilton: December 13, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and the US Treasury Department (the "Treasury") issued proposed regulations (the "Proposed Regulations") that address various aspects of the withholding tax and information commonly referred to as "FATCA".[1] The proposed regulations provide significant relief from potential retentions and compliance burdens that the United States and non-member states … View complete message
How the changes proposed to the titles of Title IX governing sexual harassment apply to independent schools – By Leander A. Dolphin, Peter J. Maher and Natalia Sieira-Millan: The US Department of Education recently published the proposed regulations on sexual harassment under Title IX of the 1972 amendments. If adopted, these regulations could have a significant impact on the way educational agencies and institutions investigate and address sexual harassment or discrimination requests. Although these rules may not … View the full post
More employers were "ICED" in the 2018 fiscal year – By Mark J. Neuberger: The US immigration and customs agency (ICE) has recently published statistics on workplace application activities for the federal fiscal year ending September 30, 2018. It should not surprise anyone that the workplace application designed to repress the employment of undocumented aliens has skyrocketed. In the year 2018, 6 848 investigations were carried out on the construction site, representing … View full article
Blockchain has arrived in the United States Real Estate – By Stuart Kaplow: At the beginning of this year a previous sale of real estate in Vermont was the first real estate transaction in the United States with blockchain, which led to a new era in land sales and improvements. Blockchain technology is a source of breaking the industry when it comes to improving transactions across all sectors and borders. It is suggested blockchain can … View the complete message
