Legal Updates

Monday, 22 April, 2019
By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. On March 13, 2019, the City of Cincinnati joined a growing number of states and municipalities that have passed laws prohibiting employers from inquiring into a job applicant’s salary history.
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Monday, 22 April, 2019
By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. President Trump issued two Executive Orders (EO) on April 10, 2019 to expedite permitting and construction of primarily energy-related infrastructure projects.
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Monday, 22 April, 2019
By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. Four years after the Supreme Court of Ohio struck down the City of Munroe Falls’ attempt to regulate oil and gas development through zoning, a lower appeals court held that the City and its law director could not sanctioned for attempting to enforce ordinances that required Beck Energy to obtain a zoning certificate and/or variance prior to drilling wells within the city.
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Thursday, 18 April, 2019
By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. According to research by the American Psychiatric Association, nearly a third of all Americans say they know someone who is or has been addicted to opioids or prescription painkillers.
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Thursday, 18 April, 2019
By: Russell Kennedy. Generally, OTE is what you pay your employees for their ordinary hours of work.
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Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
By: Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. The greatest number of cases in Family Court that are filed and litigated throughout the commonwealth, whether in heavily populated cities and counties or rural counties, are protection from abuse cases under the Protection From Abuse Act.
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Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. Generally, a trustee is required to provide certain information and accountings to the beneficiary of an irrevocable trust.
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Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
By: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease is pleased to announce that Ted Smith, a partner in the firm’s Columbus office, has been inducted into the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL).
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Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
By: Williams Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen. Williams Parker is pleased to announce Bonnie Lee Polk, a litigation attorney with the firm, has been honored by The Judge John M.
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Tuesday, 16 April, 2019
By: Taiwan Formosan Brothers. Responding to the controversy stirred up by the fact that the Taiwan High Court found no laws or regulations applicable to punish businesses using glacial acetic acid as “processing aid” in the processing of sea cucumbers (*Note 1), the Legislative Yuan passed the amendment to the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation on March 22, 2019 to include processing aid into the list of regulated substances.
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