Business Litigation
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | February 19, 2019 |
Business Litigation
Under current Virginia law, employees have a difficult time collecting wages that are improperly withheld. The costs of hiring a lawyer often outweigh the benefits of collecting the unpaid wages. The remedies presently available to a Virginia employee seeking to collect earned wages are (1) file a complaint with the…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | February 14, 2019 |
Business Litigation
Stokeling v. United States, ___ U.S. ___, No. 17-5554 (15 January 2019) Denard Stokeling was either an inept criminal or just plain unlucky. In the course of his checkered career, he managed to acquire three felony convictions; home invasion, kidnapping, and robbery. Then, he acquired a fourth felony conviction, being…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 29, 2019 |
Business Litigation
New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira, ___ U.S. ___, No. 17-340 (15 January 2019) Federal Arbitration Act; contracts of employment; statutory authority to compel arbitration In 1925, Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act (“the Act”), 9 U.S.C. §1 et seq., in an effort to counteract judicial hostility to arbitration…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 15, 2019 |
Business Litigation
Last month, we looked at NIST’s efforts to develop a new Privacy Framework to supplement its widely used Cybersecurity Framework. This month we review a couple of the Administration’s other data privacy initiatives, which reflect that further changes in data protection requirements are a…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 15, 2019 |
Business Litigation
Last month, we looked at NIST’s efforts to develop a new Privacy Framework to supplement its widely used Cybersecurity Framework. This month we review a couple of the Administration’s other data privacy initiatives, which reflect that further changes in data protection requirements are a…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 10, 2019 |
Business Litigation
Growing small businesses facing the possible loss of small business status got two more years of “growing room” from Congress and the President on December 17th. On that day, the President signed The Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 that changed to 5 years from 3 years…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | January 7, 2019 |
Business Litigation
United States v, Stitt, ___ U.S. ___, No. 17-765 and 17-766 (10 December 2018) Armed Career Criminal Act; meaning of the statutory term “burglary” The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(B)(ii) provides that if a person unlawfully possesses or transports a firearm and has three previous convictions for…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | December 17, 2018 |
Business Litigation
Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ___ U.S. ___, No. 17-71 (27 November 2018) This case concerns an unfortunate little creature that is hovering on the verge of extinction: the dusky gopher frog. First, a bit of zoology. The amphibian Rana sevosa is commonly known as the “dusky…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | December 17, 2018 |
Business Litigation
Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ___ U.S. ___, No. 17-71 (27 November 2018) This case concerns an unfortunate little creature that is hovering on the verge of extinction: the dusky gopher frog. First, a bit of zoology. The amphibian Rana sevosa is commonly known as the “dusky…
On Behalf of Berenzweig Leonard, LLP | November 19, 2018 |
Business Litigation
As more small businesses prosper and outgrow their small business status, a recurring issue is whether these no-longer-small business can compete for task orders under multiple-award contracts they won years ago when they qualified as a small business. Their right to compete generally depends on the ordering contracting officer who…
