The White House has announced a COVID-19 Plan that contains a comprehensive national strategy to address the rise in COVID-19 cases caused by the delta variant. The strategy, announced on September 9, 2021, employs six detailed points of focus.
As a practical matter, employers and places of public accommodation should be clear that they do not regulate use of restrooms on the basis of gender assigned at birth, when different from a person's lived gender.
A boycott request received from the government or an entity in the UAE could still give rise to both substantive and reporting consequences under both U.S. antiboycott laws.
On July 15, 2021, in the Homaidan opinion, the Second Circuit joined the Fifth and Tenth Circuits in deciding that certain student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy. These three opinions are very important for the student loan industry but may not be as momentous as they seem on the surface, as they do not purport to render all student loans potentially dischargeable.
The government's judicial attack on research credit refund claims has morphed from litigating the substantive nature of refund claims – whether the asserted research meets the requirements of section 41 of the Internal Revenue Code – to whether the administrative claim filed with the Internal Revenue Service and the follow-on complaint filed in federal court are procedurally sufficient.
U.S. and foreign companies can expect that future litigants will increasingly seek to compel arbitration by invoking common law doctrines allowing non-signatories to compel or be compelled to arbitrate. In addition to the doctrine of equitable estoppel, such doctrines may include assumption, piercing the corporate veil, alter ego, incorporation by reference, and waiver, as well as third-party beneficiary theories.
The lender must continue to service the PPP loan until the loan is paid in full, forgiven in full, or the SBA purchases the guaranty and charges-off any remaining balance. The procedural notice sets forth a number of actions that a lender must take to service a PPP loan.
The sale of real estate by means of electronic auction will be possible only at a request of a creditor, and if real estate is seized to satisfy several debts claimed by different creditors, its sale by means of electronic auction will be obligatory in case of a submission of a request by any of the creditors.
