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07.09.2019
On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Brydon DeWitt is joined by special guest Beryl Ball, a senior vice president and financial advisor at CAPTRUST. Brydon and Beryl discuss some of the best practices for retirement plan committees.
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06.26.2019
On Friday, June 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust (http://src.bna.com/Jbo) that a state cannot tax a trust based only on a trust beneficiary’s residency...
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06.26.2019
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Federal law that allows the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) to reject words and symbols that are considered immoral or scandalous, on grounds that it violates the First Amendment. This is another...
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06.19.2019
On June 11, 2019, the IRS and U.S. Department of Treasury issued final regulations requiring taxpayers to reduce their charitable contribution deduction by the amount of any state or local tax credits received (or expected to be received) in return for the...
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06.19.2019
Today, EPA released the final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule fulfilling the President’s promise to repeal the Obama EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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06.17.2019
On June 10, 2019 the United States Supreme Court held in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, 587 U.S. ____ (2019) that agencies of the federal government cannot challenge the validity of a patent via USPTO post-issuance procedures implemented...
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06.17.2019
On May 27, 2019, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) announced it is considering amending 9 VAC 15-60, Small Renewable Energy Projects (Solar) Permit Regulation by Rule (the “PBR Regulations”).
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06.13.2019
Recently, North Carolina’s health planners signaled the potential for a new hospital entrant in Charlotte, and, as of now, the stage may be set for another hospital opportunity, this one in the Winston-Salem area.
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06.05.2019
Certain pharmaceuticals are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as “hazardous waste” when they are discarded. EPA recently finalized new management standards for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals from health care facilities and “...
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06.05.2019
In early April 2019, Virginia released its draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (“Draft Plan”) to achieve compliance with EPA’s 2010 Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load Rule (“Bay TMDL”). The Bay TMDL sets allowable loadings of nutrients (...
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06.05.2019
The 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) made numerous changes to TSCA, including increasing public transparency of chemical information. To accomplish this, the amendments required EPA to establish a plan for reviewing all...
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06.05.2019
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employee may be able to proceed with a federal discrimination lawsuit, even if the employee has not first filed a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”).
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06.05.2019
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06.05.2019
In recent weeks, NBC News meteorologist Dylan Dreyer shared her personal story about secondary infertility, Food Network star Katie Lee posted about her experience with in vitro fertilization on Instagram, and Bravo host and executive producer Andy Cohen...
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06.05.2019
If your company is planning to buy commercial or industrial real estate, it’s probably your standard practice to have a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (“Phase I”) performed. When you do so, it’s important to ensure the Phase I report you receive from...
