May 21, 2020 Austin W. Manning MGKF Litigation Blog As we forecasted earlier this year, the uptick in medical monitoring cases surviving the motion to dismiss phase in federal court continues. Most recently, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin for the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia denied […]
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COVID-19 UPDATE May 21, 2020 Jill Hyman Kaplan MGKF Special Alert In our April 16 Special Alert, we summarized OSHA’s April 10 Enforcement Guidance which indicated OSHA would not require most employers to make a work-relatedness determination for employees with COVID-19. On Tuesday, May 19, OSHA reversed this position. Under the […]
May 21, 2020 Federal Final SECURE Rule Will Update And Modernize USDA’s Biotechnology Regulations On May 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Hvealth Inspection Service (APHIS) issued the much-anticipated final Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient (SECURE) rule. 85 Fed. Reg. 29790. The rule is […]
Written by Nathaniel Stevens, Esq. MassDEP COVID-19 Wetlands FAQs for Conservation Commissions and Applicants The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (“MassDEP”) recently issued its much-anticipated “MassDEP COVID-19 Wetlands FAQs for Conservation Commissions and Applicants” (“FAQs”)(copy available here). Posted on May 5, 2020, they could not have come soon enough for commissions, project […]
May 21, 2020
EPA Releases Proposed Rule Intended to Improve the Transparency of Guidance – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
On May 19, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its “first ever” proposed rule intended to improve the transparency of guidance. According to EPA, the new rule will significantly increase the transparency of its practices around guidance and will improve its process for managing guidance documents. When final, the […]