On May 18, 2023, in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh et al., the United States Supreme Court ruled against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) attack victim’s family who sought to hold Twitter, and other social media platforms, accountable for aiding and abetting ISIS. The family alleged that large social media companies knowingly allowed...
PSH is again being recognized by one of the legal industry’s most prestigious resource guides – Chambers USA. The firm has been thoroughly reviewed in the areas of Corporate/Commercial, Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation: General Commercial, and Real Estate. As a result of the Chambers’ research and interview process, PSH...
Introduction: As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on two landmark affirmative action cases (Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. University of North Carolina), auditing restricted use scholarship funds or program funds becomes increasingly important. Educational institutions and affiliated entities must ensure that funds...
Mental health issues in the workplace are at an all-time high. And with those issues come a slew of accommodation requests ranging from continued work from home to removal of stressful job duties to not appearing on camera during video calls. While the ADA accommodation process is exploited by unscrupulous employees for a range of...
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) conducts a benchmark survey on foreign direct investment every 5 years. The BE-12 survey is the BEA’s most comprehensive survey and produces statistics on the scale and effects of foreign-owned business activities in the United States. The most recent survey was for the 2017 fiscal reporting...
In 2021, as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act in an effort to prevent and combat illicit activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and tax fraud. In furtherance of this goal, beginning on January 1, 2024, the vast majority of new and existing, non-exempt domestic...
Partridge Snow & Hahn was recently announced by Providence Business News as one of the 2023 Best Places to Work in Rhode Island, according to a two-part survey process completed by Best Companies Group. This survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize, and honor the best employers in Rhode Island, who’s actions benefit...
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled that an employer violated its employees’ rights under federal law by offering severance agreements that included standard confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions. By way of background, Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) protects the rights of non-management employees to engage in “concerted...
Legislation has been introduced in the United States House and Senate entitled the “No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2023,” which would eliminate the tax exemption for bonds used to finance professional sports stadiums. The companion bills were introduced by Senators Lankford (R-OK) and Booker (D-NJ) and Representative Blumenauer (D-OR) and are nearly identical...
Effective as of January 1, 2023, amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) went into effect that impose additional obligations on businesses to safeguard the privacy of consumers’ personal information. The CCPA already provided consumers with a variety of rights, including the right to know the personal information collected about them, how...
