Publications

On February 14, 2020, the Washington State Senate passed a comprehensive privacy bill that would give state residents new data rights.  LB 6281, known as the Washington Privacy Act (the “Act”), passed the Senate on a 46-1 vote.  The bill will now head to the House for consideration.  A similar bill failed […]

Retailers, restaurant groups, and other merchants are no strangers to complying with the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Not only have merchants long addressed accessibility issues at their brick and mortar locations, in recent years, they have also worked to meet accessibility challenges presented by the […]

World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field and other competitive running disciplines, issued a pivotal ruling late last month that allows one of Nike’s controversial VaporFly models, the Next%, to be used in international competition, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.  The World Athletics decision imposes restrictions on […]

Late evening on January 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued an Important Notice Regarding Individuals’ Right of Access to Health Records (“Notice”). The Notice came just five days after a federal court issued a crushing blow to HHS in a seminal […]

During the opening day of the Nebraska legislative session, State Sen. Carol Blood (LD 3) introduced the Nebraska Consumer Data Privacy Act (LB 746) (“Act”), which borrows most of its provisions, almost word for word, from the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). In short, the Act, if passed, would place […]