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Tennessee government update

  • Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
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  • USA
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  • January 11 2013

This week, the members of the new 108th General Assembly of the State of Tennessee convened in Nashville. With a Republican supermajority in control

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Recently enacted New Jersey law shines spotlight on critical social media issue for healthcare employers

  • Littler Mendelson
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  • USA
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  • August 13 2012

When the photographs and videos flooding social media include images of patients or the victims of an accident or crime, it gives human resources professionals, compliance officers and in-house employment counsel at health care facilities heartburn and forces them to spring into action

Massachusetts Federal Court rules that the ADA applies to online-only business as a place of public accommodation

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 10 2012

On June 19, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts held, in National Association for the Deaf, et al. v. Netflix, Inc., that Netflix’s online video-streaming service, known as “Watch Instantly,” qualified under the Americans with Disabilities Act as a “place of public accommodation” obligated not to discriminate against the disabled

Congressional Update: Healthcare immigration Citizens United transportation cybersecurity "future of video"

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 29 2012

In the most widely anticipated Supreme Court Decision since Bush v. Gore in 2000, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature legislative achievement, was upheld in a narrow 5 to 4 decision

Facebook access faceoff

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 7 2012

A New Jersey hospital's union president brought suit against the hospital alleging violations of the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, invasion of privacy and other laws as a result of a hospital supervisor's demand that an employee provide access to the union president's Facebook page

Social media policy considerations for long term care providers a sword or a shield?

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
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  • USA
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  • April 3 2012

A single photo of a resident’s decubitus ulcer on Facebook andor YouTube is perhaps one of a long term care facility’s worst nightmares

NLRB's report on social media cases: lessons for healthcare employers

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 14 2012

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has continued to provide guidance to employers on developing labor law issues associated with employee use of social media, including Facebook, Twitter and other online technology tools

Social media, the National Labor Relations Board, and why health care employers should be concerned

  • Epstein Becker Green
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  • USA
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  • January 4 2012

Social media has revolutionized how we communicate with one another

Administrative & court decisions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 7 2011

The NLRB held that a successor employer that acquires the assets of a unionized hospital must recognize and bargain with a union that initially demanded bargaining with an inappropriate employee unit, but later “perfected” the unit by dropping several job categories