SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Vaccine Mandate Challenges, Compliance Dates Remain in Effect For Now While President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate officially took effect today, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard two rounds of...
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Supreme Court to Review Federal Vaccine Mandate via Oral Arguments on Jan. 7
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) announced Wednesday it will hear oral arguments regarding the legality of enforcement of the Biden administration’s federal COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large employers and health care facilities. The federal CMS mandate applies...
OSHA Releases Emergency Temporary Standard for Vaccine and Testing Mandate
[UPDATE: 11/6/2021 - A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees] OSHA released its 490-page Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) governing employers with 100 or more employees...
Design Patents in Virtual Reality: Implications for the Future of Esports and Gaming
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently completed a process of gathering public comments on a potential rule change to allow design patents to encompass novel “objects” rendered within new technologies, including holograms, projections,...
Tax Changes May Be On the Horizon: How To Protect Yourself and Your Business
As KJK has been reporting, Congress is gearing up to revise tax laws to target the wealthy and proposed changes could be adopted as early as mid-November. The Senate’s 50 non-Republican members, including 48 registered Democrats and two Independents who caucus with...
My PPP Loan Forgiveness Was Denied. How Do I Appeal?
In its first two months of operation, the Small Business Administration’s PPP Loan Forgiveness Portal accepted at least one million applications for PPP loan forgiveness made by small businesses, accounting for $17 billion of relief. Overall, the agency has made...
E-commerce Crime Rings: From Drug Store Thieves To Crime Moguls
In previous decades, a haul of hundreds of bottles of shampoo, bags of cough drops, cold medicine, and dental floss may have constituted a fairly unattractive prize for a would-be thief. Today, with the rise of e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Ebay, a new style...
Real Estate Investing: Strategies To Guard Against Volatility in Materials Markets
2021 represents uncharted waters for individuals who rely on lumber, steel and other building materials in their daily operations. Individuals in all segments of real estate development and construction, from home flippers to commercial and residential real estate...
New OSHA Guidance for COVID-19: Healthcare Workers and Other At-Risk Employees
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a new emergency temporary standard to set workplace safety rules for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concurrently, OSHA released new general workplace guidance for unvaccinated or...