A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments regarding an employee’s appeal from the Eleventh Circuit’s decision limiting her right to challenge disparate pay decisions to those occurring within the
On September 29, 2006, the National Labor Relations Board issued decisions in Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., 348 NLRB No. 37 and two companion cases responding to NLRB v.
Each year, many of the approximately 235 million wage-earning reports filed with the Social Security Agency (SSA) result in a mismatch between the employee’s name and reported social security numbe
The Baltimore District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has gained the reputation for litigating cases on behalf of employees who may have been unable to obtain legal represent
After an employee files a discrimination or wrongful termination claim, discovery may yield previously unknown information about misconduct in which the employee had engaged while employed.
Labor and employment law attorneys may not normally think of severance pay as "deferred compensation." Yet that is the position the Internal Revenue Service has taken in its proposed regulations un
The District of Columbia Bar Legal Ethics Committee recently published an opinion prohibiting settling parties from agreeing to keep confidential information already in the public record. (D.C.
A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
The federal estate tax law provides an exemption from federal estate tax for each individual in the amount of $2 million through 2008. This amount will increase to $3.5 million in 2009.
The federal Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) requires that health care entities which receive $5 million or more annually in payments under the Medicaid program must provide information to employees and
Gordon Feinblatt, LLC is pleased to announce that 13 of its lawyers have been selected for the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The attorneys named are:
A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
OIG's Open Letter to Providers: Did you know that the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) released an Open Letter to health care provid
On May 2, 2006, a patient rights group, the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs (the Alliance), won the right to pursue its case against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
