The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a long-awaited proposed overtime rule and new exemption threshold under the Fair Labor Standards Acts (“FLSA”) on March 7, 2019. The proposed rule raises the salary threshold for overtime eligibility from $23,660.00 to $35,308.00, or $679.00 per week. As such, employees earning under $35,308.00 a year must…
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In Fatt Katt Enterprises, Inc. v. Rigsby Construction, Inc., a dispute arose between the general contractor, Rigsby, and one of its subcontractors, Fatt Katt, over Rigsby’s failure to pay Fatt Katt amounts allegedly owed under a construction contract. 2019 WL 972043 (11th Cir. 2019). Fatt Katt asserted Rigsby violated the State of Georgia’s Prompt Pay…
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The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in County of Maui, HI v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al., No. 18-260, a Ninth Circuit case, as to the question of whether the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source discharge, but are conveyed to navigable waters by a…
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The Georgia Supreme Court granted certiorari in Hughes v. First Acceptance Ins. Co. of Ga., Inc., 343 Ga. App. 693, 808 S.E.2d 103 (2017), to review whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing the grant of summary judgment to the insurer on the insured’s failure-to-settle claim. The Court also asked the parties to address…
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After a recent Eleventh Circuit decision in Lewis v. Governor of Alabama 896 F.3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2018), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to a full-court review to decide the validity of a 2015 Alabama Law prohibiting cities or other local municipalities from adopting their own laws concerning minimum wages, leave benefits,…
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FINRA released its 2019 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter. Compared to previous years, this Letter takes a novel approach by highlighting those topics that will be materially new areas of focus for FINRA’s risk monitoring and examination programs this year. The Letter also identifies areas of ongoing concern that FINRA will continue to review….
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On January 25, 2019, the Texas Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling reversing the lower court’s holding regarding an insurers’ obligation to pay a significant amount of legal defense costs that resulted from its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. See Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Houston Casualty Co., No. 16-1013 (Tex. Jan. 25, 2019). The…
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In Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. v. Hill & Frank, Inc., 2018 WL 6613656 (Tex. Ct. App., Dec. 18, 2018), the Texas Court of Appeals held an engineer’s affidavit does not satisfy the Certificate of Merit requirement in a suit against an architect. Hill & Frank, Inc. (“Hill & Frank”) was hired to be the…
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In United States for Use and Benefit of Cleveland Construction, Inc. v. Stellar Group, Inc., the Middle District of Georgia considered the issue of whether a contract provision allows a contractor to recover attorneys’ fees, even where that contractor did not prevail on all of its claims. 2019 WL 338887 (M.D. Ga. 2019). Stellar Group,…
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Venue for actions against corporations, both domestic and foreign, are governed by Ala. Code §6-3-7(a)(3) (1975). The statute provides an action may be brought against a corporation in “the county in which the plaintiff resided, or if the plaintiff is an entity other than an individual, where the plaintiff had its principal office in this…
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