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September 21, 2020
News - Real Estate
New York – September 21, 2020 – Kenneth K. Fisher, a member of Cozen O'Connor’s Business Law Department, was named to City & State New York’s 2020 Brooklyn Power 50.
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September 21, 2020
Publication - Customs, Imports & Trade Remedies - Retail
Danielle Garno, Heather Marx, and Samuel Mogensen discuss U.S. Customs and Border Protection five WROs banning cotton, apparel, and other goods that were produced with state-sponsored forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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September 18, 2020
Publication - Business, Corporate, Transportation & Trade
Bob Magovern and Katie Sobotta discuss the U.S. Department of the Treasury's final rule that alters and expands the scope of foreign investments involving critical technologies that are subject to mandatory review by CFIUS.
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September 18, 2020
Publication - Commercial Litigation - Retail
Heather Marx published an article to Law360 discussing the different effects that trade policies and the COVID-19 pandemic have had on the fashion industry.
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September 17, 2020
Publication - Tax
Joe Bright and Heidi Schwartz co-authored an article published in Bloomberg Tax analyzing the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court’s recent decision in Synthes USA HQ, Inc. v. Pennsylvania.
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September 17, 2020
Publication - Labor & Employment
George Voegele discusses the city of Philadlelphia's new ordinance that makes two weeks of paid sick leave available to thousands of Philadelphia workers impacted by COVID-19.
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September 17, 2020
Publication - Construction Law - Real Estate & Construction
Marion Hack contributed an article to Bloomberg Law discussing the importance for those acquiring or restructuring construction operations to perform the proper due diligence.
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September 16, 2020
Publication - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Nicole H. Sprinzen and Yehudah Gordon the CFTC's new guidance memorandum outlining factors that the Division of Enforcement will consider when evaluating compliance programs in connection with actions it brings.
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September 15, 2020
Publication - Labor & Employment
Michael Hanlon and Benjamin L. Shechtman discuss the Third Circuit's consolidated opinions in Diamond et al. v. PSEA et al. and Wenzig et al. v. SEIU Local 668 et al.
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September 15, 2020
News - Commercial Litigation
Michael de Leeuw was featured in a Law360 article in which he called the federal government's cannabis prohibition a "disastrous anachronism that must be addressed immediately."
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September 15, 2020
Press Release
Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce its achievement of the Mansfield Rule 3.0 Certification status.
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September 15, 2020
Publication - Labor & Employment
Bethany Vasquez, Elena Hillman, and Austin Dieter discuss Assembly Bill 1867, requiring large employers to provide COVID-19 related supplemental paid sick leave to their California employees.
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September 14, 2020
News - Commercial Litigation
Jim Heller was quoted in the Wall Street Journal discussing whether or not manufacturers will be held liable for any injuries or deaths during Hurricane Sally.
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September 14, 2020
Publication - Insurance Coverage
On August 18, 2020, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held, in a 4-3 decision, that insurer, Truck Insurance Exchange, was entitled to withhold general contractor overhead and profit expenses from its actual cash value payments to its insureds where the insureds did not undertake the repairs of the damaged property and, therefore, never incurred the GCOP costs.
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September 10, 2020
Publication - Life Insurance & Annuities
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently issued a decision denying class certification to a sub-class in a cost of insurance class action based upon the insurer’s defense that certain of the claims were barred because “a substantial number of the policies at issue were obtained through stranger-originated life insurance schemes.”
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September 10, 2020
News - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Brian Shaw was quoted in a Chicago Tribune article discussing an anticipated wave of bankruptcies among small businesses when Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans run out, absent additional funding.
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September 09, 2020
Publication - Business, Corporate, Corporate Governance & Securities, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Katayun Jaffari, Diane Thompson, and Anne Greene co-authored an article published in The Legal Intelligencer that examines the considerations companies must bear in mind when addressing executive compensation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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September 09, 2020
News - Hatch-Waxman & Biologics, Intellectual Property, Patents
Keri Schaubert was quoted in Bloomberg Law discussing drug patent lawsuits that took a 21% dive from this time last year, a “perfect storm” that traces back to 2016 when the FDA only approved a handful of new drugs.
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September 09, 2020
Publication - Maritime Litigation, Maritime Regulatory, Transportation & Trade
Jeff Vogel contributed an article to Marine News discussing how the maritime industry- including the offshore sector- was noticeably absent from the free flow of federal funding in the CARES Act or the subsequent Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act.
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September 08, 2020
Publication - Real Estate - Education
Mitchell Poole authored an article published by Law360 that examines the unique business and legal issues that distinguish student housing from traditional multifamily housing facilities, and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified those issues and affected the economics of off-campus student housing.
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