Effective today, July 1, the NCAA has officially suspended the organization’s rules prohibiting athletes from selling the rights to their names, images, and likenesses (“NIL”). Despite the NCAA’s longstanding principles that payments to athletes while attending college would undermine amateurism of college athletics, the organization’s Division I board of directors decided Wednesday that it would
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Carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) is the process of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from large point sources, and then transporting it to a storage location for deposit in underground formations where it will not re-enter the atmosphere. By returning CO2 emissions that resulted from the
Currently, 29 states permit some form of remote online notarization (RON) and Louisiana is (almost) one of them.[1] House bill 274 of the 2020 regular session of the Louisiana State Legislature was signed into law on June 11, 2020. HB 274, among other things, permits the use of remote online notarization in Louisiana. However,
The Louisiana Supreme Court recently interpreted the fax-filing statute to require “delivery” of an original pleading to the clerk within seven days after the fax filing. If the pleading is to be given the fax-filing date, you must now “deliver” the original and the fee to the clerk before the seven-day deadline. And you’re expected
In the recent 2-1 decision of Knight v. Kirby Offshore Marine Pac., L.L.C, No. 19-30756, 2020 WL 7393534, at *1 (5th Cir. Dec. 17, 2020), the Fifth Circuit held that a Jones Act Seaman was contributorily negligent for his injuries when following the general orders of his superior. The Court analyzed the differences between general
After several years of negotiation and political posturing, 15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement on November 15, 2020. The RCEP includes several countries from the Southeast Asia and the Pacific region, including Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.
On October 16, 2020, the attorney representing the Louisiana Association of Tax Administrators presented a proposal for centralized local sales and use tax collection in Louisiana (the “Localities’ Proposal”) to the Centralized Sales and Use Tax Administration Study Group (the “Study Group”). The Study Group was created by the Legislature earlier this year (HR
In the 2018 case, Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). PAPSA went into effect in 1993 and prevented any state from legalizing sports gambling (unless the state was grandfathered in). As a result of the ruling in Murphy, the
Every few weeks, another news outlet reports that a wave of energy-related bankruptcy cases is on the way. See links below if you need some examples.[1] A recent decision in the Alta Mesa bankruptcy case about pipeline contracts has some important lessons for producers and midstream companies evaluating how future bankruptcy cases may
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, holding that an employer who fires an individual based on the individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity violates the express terms of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), which