On July 16, 2015, the EEOC announced that sexual orientation is included within Title VII’s prohibition against sex discrimination in Complainant v. Foxx, 2015 WL 4397641 (EEOC July 16, 2015). Foxx worked as an air traffic control specialist in Miami, Florida. He claimed that he was discriminated against in violation ...
On Monday, July 20, Autozone Stores, Inc. and former employee Rosario Juarez jointly moved to dismiss Juarez’s highly publicized pregnancy discrimination case. Juarez filed suit against Autozone in 2008, claiming that Autozone demoted her and then fired her because of her pregnancy. She also claimed that Autozone ...
Glen Reid, member of the Firm's Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation Service Team, was recently named a legal Power Player by Inside Memphis Business. The Power Players list is an annual feature that highlights the city's top movers and shakers. The editorial board consists of Inside Memphis Business staff, along with ...
On July 16, 2015, the Department of Interior, Federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (“OSM”) released a proposed regulation to prevent or minimize impacts to surface water and groundwater from surface coal mining. The proposed rule, known as the Stream Protection Rule, replaces the controversial ...
Yesterday, the DOL released new guidance on the FLSA’s “suffer or permit” standard that governs the distinction between employees and independent contractors. According to the DOL, the goal of the guidance is to reduce the increasing number of employees who are misclassified as independent contractors.
The ...
When business disputes cannot be resolved by negotiation or arbitration, the parties involved often turn to litigation. However, these business disputes frequently involve complex, time-consuming and costly proceedings that would be more appropriate in a specialized forum.
To better serve the litigation needs of ...
If you use a slogan or a logo that identifies your company to your customers, you should protect your rights to that slogan or logo. If you don’t have the thousands of dollars that a federal trademark registration might require, the Tennessee Trademark Act (TTMA) might provide you with the protection you need at a cost you can ...
Today begins the sixty-day period when employers can submit comments about the DOL’s proposed rule increasing the salary requirements for exempt employees. The DOL proposes that the minimum salary requirements be raised from $455 per week or $23,660 a year to $970 a week or $50,440 a year. In order to qualify for the highly ...
On May 27, the EPA finalized the “Clean Water Rule” which defines the scope of waters protected by the Clean Water Act. The rule is intended to clarify and implement Supreme Court decisions interpreting the reach of Clean Water Act provisions controlled by the phrase “waters of the United States.”
Those decisions have ...
On April 17, 2015, the EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register regulating the disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) as solid waste under subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The EPA established national minimum criteria for existing and new CCR landfills, existing and new CCR ...