How the New FLSA Regulations May Impact You and Your Company
…or learning; and The advance knowledge must customarily be acquired through a prolonged course of specialized education or intellectual instruction. Computer Professionals: The DOL’s comments to the new regulations explain…
Tips for Employers on How to Provide Risk-free Recommendations for Former Employees
…company against claims arising from circumstances where the company feels compelled to share negative information about a former employee. This article was reprinted with permission from Albuquerque Business First….
U.S. Supreme Court Establishes Middle Ground on Clean Water Act Regulation of Point Source Pollutant Discharge and Travel Via Groundwater
…Drake at jdrake@modrall.com, Walter Stern at western@modrall.com, Stuart Butzier at sbutzier@modrall.com, Christina Sheehan at ccs@modrall.com, and Sarah Stevenson at sarah.stevenson@modrall.com. [1] Slip Op. (April 23, 2020), available at: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-260_jifl.pdf….
Potential Hurdle to Right-of-Way Acquisition and Renewals: The Tenth Circuit Holds Tribal Acquisition of an Undivided Interest in an Allotment Defeats Congressional Eminent Domain Authority
…district court in Oklahoma, cited favorably by the Tenth Circuit, recently found a pipeline company in trespass, after concluding that the pipeline company could not invoke Section 357 because of…
Law Day Celebration
…student essayists who submitted entries into the high school legal writing competition.” This year’s topic, “Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society,” invited students to research case law and discuss current…
Stuart Butzier Becomes Vice Chair of the Mining Law Committee of the International Bar Association
…an IBA joint committee initiative to consider “Model Climate Change Legislation;” and (6) moderating a panel presentation of “Comparative Legal Challenges of Pursuing Mining Projects in Civil versus Common Law…
Reservation Diminishment: Implications for Tribal Taxing Powers over Non-Members
…Indian lands.’”[6. Id. at 5-6 (quoting Hagen v. Utah, 510 U.S. 399, 411 (1994)).] Beyond the statutory text, the Court’s test also examines (i) the circumstances surrounding the opening of…