8/15/2024 6:51:28 PM Regulators Seek to Test Raw Milk for H5N1 in National Study By David Crass Last week, FDA, USDA and the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments sent a joint letter to leadership of state Departments of...
5/14/2024 6:15:29 PM CDC PPE Recommendations for H5N1 By David Crass As confirmed by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently updated its...
5/14/2024 5:40:13 PM USTR Releases Sec. 301 Report and Recs By David Crass Today, the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) released the results of its Sec. 301tariff statutory review, detailing ongoing...
9/11/2023 11:55:17 AM 9th Circuit Holds that CARES Act does not provide a private right of action to enforce violations of § 3202 By Courtney Tito On September 9, 2023, the 9th Circuit held that the CARES Act doesn't create a private right of action for providers to sue payors for...
4/4/2023 9:21:22 PM Online Library Violated Copyright Law: Are you relying too heavily on fair use? By Laura Lamansky The COVID-19 pandemic is still causing ripple effects across many industries, including libraries and higher education. In 2020, major...
6/27/2022 4:51:20 PM Employers need to be on the lookout for "take home" COVID-19 liability lawsuits. By Paul Benson During the pandemic, most employers could take solace in the fact that if their employees contracted COVID-19 at their workplace, they...
2/10/2022 2:54:37 PM Approaching Normalcy - Rolling Back Mask Mandates By Farrah Rifelj "Approaching normalcy"...it may not feel like it yet, but it is a welcoming thought. Employers have been riding the rollercoaster of...
1/11/2022 7:42:53 PM On Predicting the Future By Michael Best Way back when COVID-19 was just beginning to make its mark on the world, yours truly offered two somber blogs (one perhaps even bleak) on...
9/15/2021 3:04:27 PM Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers? By Carrie Meigs While this is just one decision regarding vaccine mandates, there is certainly a trend toward finding that vaccines cannot be mandated...
8/23/2021 5:31:40 PM A return to in-person hearings in Federal Courts? By Carrie Meigs As litigators, we have all hoped for a return to in-person hearings and trials and perhaps even dreamed of being able to do so without...
7/30/2021 3:59:08 PM Can you mandate people be vaccinated? Yes, according to the DOJ. By Paul Benson A little bit of clarity has been added to the debate over whether or not public and private entities can require that people be...
6/15/2021 7:33:14 PM Congress' FY 2022 funding fight starts this month By Lucia Alonzo On June 15, the House Appropriations Committee announced their markup schedule for fiscal year (FY) 2022 funding bills, setting up new...