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By Craig A. Tristao Download a PDF of this article here Do you need a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for a discharge to groundwater? Before the Supreme Court’s April 23, 2020, decision in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020) __ U.S. ___, Docket No. 18-260, many believed, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had…
By Gregory J. Norys Download a PDF of this article here On March 31, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) provided employer’s guidance on what documentation it will require to support the tax credit taken under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave (“EPSL”) and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLA) sections of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act…
By Darryl J. Horowitt Download a PDF of this article here The novel Covid-19 Coronavirus is impacting all segments of society. With shelter in place orders being issued by Governor Newsom, and most localities issuing orders for all non-essential companies to close and workers to “shelter in place”, businesses in virtually all categories are being affected. It is anticipated that…
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Every year, Super Lawyers® conducts a peer review of lawyers and names the top 5% as Super Lawyers®, and 2.5% of young lawyers as Rising Stars®. Over the past several years, numerous Coleman & Horowitt lawyers were recognized as both Northern California Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars®, and this year is no different. This year, 11 firm attorneys were recognized…
This blog is re-posted from the Milk Producers Council Newsletter. If you have any questions please contact Kevin Abernathy at the Milk Producers Council or Lee N. Smith or Craig Tristao of our office.. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) officials confirmed Thursday that they are in the process of contacting about 70 dairies to investigate…
The California Supreme Court in October denied the Petition for Review of the Second District Court of Appeal’s opinion that a Proposition 65 suit concerning acrylamide in breakfast cereals was preempted by federal law. Although the trial court rejected this argument the cereal manufacturers successfully appealed to the Court of Appeals. The Court found that a Prop. 65 cancer warning on…
Although there is a recent State Appeals court case that upholds the State’s ability to list Glyphosate as a Prop 65 chemical and would require labeling as such starting July 2018 ((5th Dist.) there is also a federal ruling on preliminary injunction that prohibits the enforcement of Prop 65 labeling for glyphosate.(CAED) The State case (decided in April) involved whether the…
Download a PDF of the article here By Darryl J. Horowitt If you run a company that uses computers that are accessible to the Internet, cyber security should be important to you because of the importance of preserving the confidential information in your computer system. What is cyber security? Simply stated, it relates to the preservation of electronically stored information…
By Sherrie M. Flynn Read article here. By now, most individual inventors, as well as the companies that employ inventors, know that because of the America Invents Act (AIA), America has gone from a system of “first-to-invent” (the first person to invent has the rights to a patent on the invention), to a system of “first-to-file” (the first person to…