Employment Law Report

By Will Gibbons

Defense attorneys often rely on the legal defense of laches when faced with a claim of patent infringement. This defense bars recovery when a party claims legal injury but unreasonably delays in pursuing the claim in a way that prejudices the opposing party. The laches defense has come under close examination in the SCA Hygiene ...

By J. Graham Matherne

Your company sponsors, at your offices, a charitable, newsworthy event. Local celebrities attend. Afterwards, you have numerous “selfies” of you and your employees with those celebrities. You want to place various “selfies” on your website but don’t want to go to the trouble of getting the celebrities’ ...

By Karen J. Greenwell

Today a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stayed enforcement of the new Clean Water Rules (the “Rules’” governing activities involving the “Waters of the United States” pending resolution of several challenges to the Rules). Unlike the prior injunction from the North ...

By Max E. Bridges

On October 1, the EPA lowered the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone to 70 parts per billion (ppb), from the current level of 75 ppb set under President Bush in 2008. Ground-level ozone is a main component of smog and can produce a number of harmful effects on the respiratory system, including ...

By George J. Miller

When the National Labor Relations Board implemented its new union election rule in April of this year, the prediction was that the new procedure would shorten the time between the date of the filing of the election petition and the date of the election, something which labor unions and their supporters favored but which the ...