Client Alerts
- April 20, 2021
For many years, group health plans have been subject to strict privacy and security requirements, but up to now, privacy and security for retirement plans has been left to the vagaries of the plan service providers and their auditing systems.
April 19, 2021Ford Motor Company issued new Terms of Purchase, that become effective on July 1, 2021 for all Purchase Orders issued on or after that date. This is the first extensive change in Ford’s Terms since 2004. Butzel Long has prepared an analysis of the changes in the new Terms, which is linked at the end of this Alert.
April 19, 2021Metal-finishers typically plate or coat a customer’s metal parts with a finish, (e.g., nickel) for a per unit fee.
April 9, 2021A recent opinion of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan provided a reminder of the limits of preemption under the Michigan Uniform Trade Secret Act (“MUTSA”).
April 9, 2021On April 5, 2021, Mexico’s Secretary of Labor published a press release announcing it had reached an agreement with the business sector, employees’ unions, and the members of Mexican congress relating to outsourcing changes to Mexico’s Federal Labor Law.
April 5, 2021Is it possible that you own trade secrets, without even knowing it?
April 5, 2021In its recent decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the question of when a party’s activities in a state will allow it to be sued in that state or, in legalese, when do a state’s courts have in personam personal jurisdiction over a corporation.
March 31, 2021On February 25, 2021, the Michigan Court of Appeals held in Young v VanderMeer[i] that a majority or equal shareholder has standing to pursue shareholder oppression claims under MCL 450.1489 so long as the defendant was in control of the company at the time oppression occurred.
March 30, 2021On Saturday, March 27, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Covid-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act Relief Extension Act (the “Act”).
March 26, 2021As COVID-19 cases in Michigan are on the rise, employers face questions about when employees need to quarantine or isolate and for how long.
March 18, 2021As we previously reported in our “End of LIBOR – Part 1”, for several years US banking regulators have been preparing for the replacement of LIBOR as a lending index rate.
March 18, 2021Last week, Congress passed a massive $1.9 trillion piece of legislation called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”).
March 17, 2021On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act (“Rescue Plan”) was signed into law.
March 17, 2021As a result of new changes in the law, employers sponsoring group health plans may need to act quickly to make plan design decisions and to meet new notice requirements, as explained below.
March 16, 2021By now, we’ve all heard of cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin, when it hit the scene in 2009 with the goal to decentralize the finance system.
March 16, 2021Despite many industries suffering setbacks over the past year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, federal contract spending has grown year over year since 2016, including this past year, and appears to have no end in sight.
March 15, 2021The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was initially set to expire on December 31, 2020.
March 12, 2021Covid-19 has had a major influence on workers compensation insurance.
March 10, 2021Jump to PageToyota Motors North America has issued new Terms of Purchase, which will become effective on October 1, 2021 for all goods sold on or after that date.
March 9, 2021Non Practicing Entities (“NPEs”) are not new in the world of patent infringement litigation, but a recent holding shows just how far an NPE can go, and how much the NPE can ‘win’, when asserting patent infringement claims for the patents it owns.
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