News & Press Releases

Mintz Associate Don Davis authored an article recently published by the American Bar Association’s Business Law Today that addressed the United States’ need for the Equality Act, a legislative solution that would amend existing civil rights law to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. Mr. Davis emphasizes the urgency in passing the law in light of a potential adverse ruling in a trio of cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court that will decide whether Title VII already prohibits sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.

Mintz Members David Siegel and Jason Halperin authored this New York Law Journal article, which revisits the Autumn Jackson decision, and the subsequent 20 years of case law, for perspective on the Avenatti charges. The piece focuses on the challenges federal prosecutors face in trying to make reputational-threat based extortion charges stick.

Mintz health care lawyer Dianne Bourque is quoted in this article, which addresses a host of state legislatures—often via consumer protection laws—are redefining what is considered a breach and how providers will need to handle reporting.

Alden Bianchi, Chair of Mintz’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice contributed this column discussing how it’s too soon to tell whether the decision in New York v. DOL is a battle in a larger war or the war itself.

Member Laurence Freedman provides analysis on recent development, legal questions raised thus far, and what’s at stake in the Supreme Court's recent interest in the Intermountain Healthcare Inc. FCA case.