Publications

Employees in 2023 enjoy a target rich environment for challenging their terminations.  Civil rights challenges alleging race, religion, gender and sexual orientation discrimination (among others) are common.  Employees can also assert discrimination based on age, or medical condition, or failure to accommodate.  They can allege retaliation based on FMLA usage, […]

On February 3, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) withdrew its support for longstanding antitrust enforcement safe harbors in the health care industry.[1]  Prior to this withdrawal, from 1993 to the date of withdrawal, when engaging in collaborative efforts or potential mergers or acquisitions, the health […]

Earlier this month, a federal court in the Northern District of Illinois struck a major blow to the ability of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) to expand the provisions of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) to prospective applicants for credit products as well as applicants. The case involved […]

On January 23, House Study Bill 12 (“HSB 12”) passed a three-member subcommittee of the Iowa House of Representatives’ Economic Growth and Technology Committee.  Last year, a version of HSB 12 passed through the Iowa House but failed in the Iowa Senate.  HSB 12 is similar to the business-friendly Utah Consumer Privacy […]

The latest in artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived in the form of ChatGPT.  This has spawned new interest in the use of AI to create and maybe even replace human workers or entire companies.  The results when testing the platform are fantastic; I can ask it to write me a […]