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February 27, 2024

Supreme Court to Rule on Estate Tax Valuation of Stock Purchased with Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Proceeds

If a shareholders agreement sets forth a fixed and determinable price that satisfies the requirements of Code Section 2703(b) and cases interpreting that term, then that price will be respected for federal estate tax valuation purposes. If it does no...

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February 21, 2024

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Releases 4 New Resource Documents Addressing Students With Disabilities Under Section 504

On February 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released four (4) new resource documents on students with disabilities, reminding students with disabilities and K-12 schools (as well as colleges and universities...

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February 20, 2024

Substitute Version of Bill in Ohio House That Could Dramatically Change Eminent Domain Law Recently Accepted by Committee

Update - February 2024: We have been following the progress of House Bill (“HB”) 64 in Ohio’s 135th General Assembly (formerly HB 698 in the 134th General Assembly) (the “Bill”), which proposes numerous changes to Ohio’s eminent domain statutes. A su...

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February 08, 2024

Ohio Appellate Court Holds Hazardous Material Transportation Act Does Not Preempt Ohio Products Liability Act

On February 5, 2024, an Ohio appellate court issued a decision that will permit plaintiffs in products liability actions to bring state law claims for injuries caused by defective products used in the transfer and storage of hazardous materials. Einb...

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February 06, 2024

Is the Title IX Final Rule Finally Coming?

On June 23, 2022, Title IX’s 50th anniversary, the U.S. Department of Education announced its proposed changes to the implementing regulations concerning how schools must handle sex discrimination matters, including sexual harassment.  Proposed regul...

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January 25, 2024

OSHA Electronic Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements Expanded to Certain Employers

Effective January 1, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) expands its electronic recordkeeping and reporting requirements for certain employers in designated industries. The regulation, “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injur...

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January 16, 2024

New Illinois Law Requires Larger Employers to Give Transit Benefits to Employees

Toward the end of 2023, Illinois enacted the Transportation Benefits Program Act. This Act, which became effective January 1, 2024, requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide their employees with a pre-tax commuter benefit. In this regar...

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January 12, 2024

U.S. Department of Labor Implements New Rule to Clarify Worker Classification under FLSA

The US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division has finalized a new rule to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This rule will go into effect on March 11, 2024.  The new rule is...

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January 05, 2024

IRS Issues Proposed Regulations on Long-Term, Part-Time Employees

Historically, qualified retirement plans have excluded part-time employees from participation. An employer’s ability to do so has now been limited by the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (“SECURE Act”) and the SECURE Act 2.0...

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January 03, 2024

Is the After School Satan Club Coming to Your School District?

The decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Saucon Valley School District, ___ F.Supp.3d ___, 2023 WL 3182934, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75001 (May 1, 2023) is a reminder that if a public sc...

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December 22, 2023

Status of DOJ and EPA Policies on Supplemental Environmental Projects

A critical tool in crafting settlement agreements in environmental enforcement cases with DOJ and U.S. EPA has been reauthorized. There have been numerous policy changes at the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and U.S. EPA during President Biden...

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December 13, 2023

Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Act Set to Take Effect on December 31

On December 31, 2023, the City of Chicago’s Paid Leave and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance will take effect.  This Act will require Chicago employers to provide each of their employees, including domestic workers, up to 40 hours of Paid Leave for Any Reaso...

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December 07, 2023

New Federal Law to Create Reporting Requirements for Most U.S. Entities

Many entities across the United States are about to have increased reporting requirements starting January 1, 2024. After a long anticipated-wait, FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, issued a final rule on the Beneficial Ownership Infor...

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November 13, 2023

IRS Issues Inflation Adjustments for 2024

The IRS recently announced the 2024 annual inflation adjustments for key tax provisions. Of interest to our clients, Standard Deduction: The standard deduction for married couples filing jointly increases by $1,500 to $29,200. For single taxpay...

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November 10, 2023

Ohio Issue 2 Passes: Analysis of Impact on Schools

With the passage of Issue 2 in the November 7, 2023, general election, a new chapter of the Ohio Revised Code will be created: Chapter 3780, Adult Use Cannabis Control. While the new law in Ohio authorizes what is referred to as allowable forms of “a...

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November 08, 2023

Ohio’s a Buzz: Impact of Legalization of Recreational Marijuana Use on Employers

Yesterday, Ohio voters overwhelmingly passed Issue 2, legalizing recreational marijuana use. Today employers are wondering, “how does this new law affect the workplace?” The short answer is: not much.  Consistent with current Ohio law regarding me...

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October 30, 2023

The National Labor Relations Board Issues Expansive Joint Employer Rule

Do you use a staffing agency to provide workers for your day-to-day operations?   Are you a franchisor that licenses your trademark and business model to franchisees? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you should keep reading b...

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October 10, 2023

Saving for College While Also Saving for…Retirement?

Thanks to changes in the SECURE 2.0 Act, saving for education can now also help save for retirement. Beginning in 2024, the beneficiary of a 529 education savings plan account may roll certain excess account assets directly into a Roth IRA for his or...

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October 09, 2023

Wrangling Continues over Revised WOTUS Conforming Rule Issued in Response to Sackett v. EPA

On September 8, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers published a final conforming rule amending the definition of “waters of the United States” in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Sackett decision. As we have reported over the past...

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September 01, 2023

Labor Department Proposes Overtime for Currently Exempt Employees Earning $55,000/Year or Less

The Labor Department released a proposed rule increasing the salary threshold for overtime-exempt employees from the current $35,568/year to $55,000/year. The proposal will be open for public input for 60 days once its official publication in the Fed...