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Supreme Court Issues Decision Significantly Expanding the Scope of FOIA’s Confidentiality Exemption

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on July 16, 2019

Posted in FOIA, Trade Secrets, White Collar

By Andrew S. Boutros, Michael D. Wexler, Alex Meier, Daniel P. Hart, Robert B. Milligan

Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 24, 2019, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media and resolved fractured circuit splits about the parameters for when the government may withhold information from a Freedom of Information …
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DOL Enforcement of Domestic Service Home Care Worker Employment Compliance Begins November 12, 2015

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on October 16, 2015

Posted in FLSA, Wage & Hour Compliance, Workplace Policies and Processes

By Erin Dougherty Foley and Craig B. Simonsen

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), due to pending litigation, had not begun to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) final rule on protections relating to most home care workers, which rules had an effective date of January 1, 2015. That litigation has now concluded, and the DOL rule has been…
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