by David P. Weiss | Aug 24, 2011 | Corporate Law, Litigation, Small Business Law
Larger corporations have faced this reality for many years: litigation involving records can be extremely costly, very disruptive and just a pain in the “you-know-what.” Now smaller companies are also experiencing what their larger counterparts have known for some...
by e-LawLines | Aug 5, 2011 | Corporate Law, Employment Law, Litigation, Small Business Law
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. that an employer’s termination of an employee in response to an oral complaint about working conditions does subject the employer to potential liability for violation...
by David P. Weiss | Aug 2, 2011 | Employment Law, Small Business Law
In 2008, the United canadian healthcare States Congress enacted amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”). In March 2011, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), which is charged with writing and adopting regulations, promulgated...
by David P. Weiss | Jun 30, 2011 | Small Business Law
CNBC just posted a ranking of states for doing business in 2011. Missouri inched up one spot to the No. 16 spot for 2011. The primary factor in the ranking was the cost of doing business, where we ranked 3rd in the nation. Other single digit rankings included cost...
by e-LawLines | Jun 17, 2011 | Small Business Law
It turns out, not all receipts are created (or printed) equally. The Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals recently joined the Seventh Circuit in holding that e-mailed receipts are not “electronically printed receipts” under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions...
by e-LawLines | Jun 16, 2011 | Employment Law, Litigation, Small Business Law
Section 207(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) provides that “no employer shall employ any of his employees…for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a...
