On March 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (“USDOE”) issued guidance addressing the risk of Coronavirus/COVID-19 in schools while protecting the rights of students with disabilities. As a general rule, if school districts are serving students remotely, they must ensure that students who have...
On March 25, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law S2304, a bill intended to broaden the availability of access to benefits under the state’s Temporary Disability Insurance (“TDI”) and Family Leave Insurance (“FLI”) programs. The law targets epidemic-related illnesses such as COVID-19 and makes...
On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) began issuing implementing regulations for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The first set of regulations state that the effective date of the FFCRA is April 1, 2020, not April 2, 2020 as originally...
While negotiations continue on the United State Senate’s COVID-19 emergency relief bill, Democrats in the House of Representatives have unveiled their own stimulus plan. The Democrats’ response bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long, proposes injecting some $40 billion into schools and universities to...
On March 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education issued guidance to schools about addressing the risk of COVID-19 in schools while protecting the rights of students with disabilities. As a general rule, if school districts are serving students remotely, they must ensure that students...
On March 20, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a suite of 16 bills into law aimed at assisting New Jersey in dealing with the Coronavirus/COVID-19 health emergency. The new laws include a prohibition on terminating or refusing to reinstate an employee who has,...
On the evening of March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201. The new law includes the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (“EFMLEA”), which provides paid family leave, and the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act...
In a recent per curiam decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Feuer v. Merck & Co., the Court sheds light on the scope of a shareholder’s right to inspect a corporation’s records under both New Jersey statutory law and common law. The Court...
As reported in Law360, a proposed class of diabetes patients who say three major insulin manufacturers caused them to overpay for the medication can’t pursue Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims against the drugmakers, a New Jersey federal judge said Friday, because the consumers didn’t...
The following article originally appeared on Law360. Clarifying State Consumer Fraud Act At NJ High Court Partner Hector D. Ruiz authored an article on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s treatment of CFA claims in the context of business-to-business transactions involving custom-made goods. This article examines the New Jersey...