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California law requires certain business establishments to post a notice regarding human trafficking and slavery

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 1 2013

California's Department of Justice recently posted a model notice on their website with a variety of human trafficking and slavery hotlines. Under

Ohio district court dismisses EEOC suit challenging credit check policies

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2013

Anyone looking for a case rich in irony need look no further than EEOC v. Kaplan Higher Learning Edu. Corp., Case No. 1:10 CV 2882 (N.D. Ohio, Jan

Legalized marijuana and the workplace: preparing for the trend

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2012

As the smoke from the 2012 election dissipates, one clear winner has emerged: marijuana

Call centers increasingly targeted in class action lawsuits for statutory penalties under decades-old California law

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 23 2012

Companies that provide call center services to consumers are increasingly being targeted in class action lawsuits under an arcane section of the California penal code that provides a civil right of action and statutory damages for monitoring or recording of confidential telephone conversations without the other party's knowledge or consent

Providers now permitted to make gifts and donations to Ohio politicians

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 16 2012

An Ohio statute prohibited Medicaid providers and their owners from making campaign contributions to candidates for state attorney general or county prosecutor

Video interview: discussing Savannah Dietrich with LXBN TV

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 2 2012

Following up on my post on the subject, I had the chance earlier this week to speak with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding the Savannah Dietrich story

Senate takes up cybersecurity bill: can national security trump politics this close to the election? Part 2

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2012

Yesterday we asked: Can National Security Trump Politics This Close to the Election?

Burmese market opened to U.S. investment and financial services

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • Myanmar, USA
  • -
  • July 13 2012

On July 11, 2012, in an effort to support the Burmese Government's ongoing economic and political reform efforts, and pursuant to the change in U.S. policy towards Burma first expressed by Secretary of State Clinton in May, the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) substantially removed the preexisting ban on the export of financial services to Burma and on new U.S. investment in Burma

U.S. Supreme Court narrows public-sector unions' ability to collect special assessments or extra union dues and raises doubts about "fair share fees"

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 27 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday, June 21, that the Service Employees International Union violated the First Amendment rights of California state employees when it imposed a special political assessment without first issuing a notice explaining the additional fees and giving nonunion members a chance to object

United States Supreme Court ruling in Armour v. Indianapolis

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2012

In a 6-3 opinion penned by Justice Breyer, the United States Supreme Court ruled on June 4 that the City of Indianapolis did not violate the 14th Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection by denying refunds to taxpayers who paid a special sewer assessment in a lump sum, while discharging the future obligations of taxpayers who would have paid the assessment by installments