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Construction: Alert - January 30, 2012

For almost 50 years, lessors have had the ability to limit their liability for liens that arose from improvements to the leasehold made by a lessee. However, in the most recent legislative session, the Florida Legislature enacted revisions to Florida Statute § 713.10 that provide a potential pitfall for lessors by inserting a provision that may allow a contractor to lien the lessor's interest even where there is a recorded document advising of the limitation of liens.

Labor, Employment and Benefits: Alert - February 6, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied an employer’s request for review of a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which held that tipped employees spending more than 20 percent of their time performing related but non-tipped duties must be paid the full minimum wage for that time, without the tip credit.

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Will California Keep Its Cool?

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April 23, 2009

Elizabeth Lake - San Francisco

Public Policy & Regulation attorneys Elizabeth Lake and Peter Landreth discuss the case of Entergy v. Riverkeeper decision. Despite the victory claim by power plants over fish, the attorneys argue that it is too early to determine because of California's continuing line up against once-through cooling. They also address how the federal government is tasked with issuing new regulations in the wake of this decision and the unlikeliness of state regulators to wait for them.

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