Following up on our recent updates regarding the pending New York legislation known as the Grieving Families Act, it has been reported that an amended version of the bill was delivered to Governor Hochul last week.

As seems to be the case every year, 2022 was a busy year in the employment law arena for New York State and City. In this alert, we recap the key new developments that employers should be mindful of in order to move forward with a compliant 2023.

The following are summaries of changes in Florida labor & employment law that occurred in 2022.

Lewis Brisbois’ New York team recently secured a dismissal and an adverse-inference charge in two cases that demonstrate the continued importance of obtaining discovery regarding social media and plaintiffs’ private journals, respectively. In King v. Shabab and Clarke v. Povella, New York Partners David L. Rosenthal, Nicholas P. Hurzeler and Jennifer R. Harris, with Associates Briana O’Connor and Dean Pillarella, argued that a straightforward application of the principles set forth in the New York Court of Appeals’ decision in Forman v. Henkin, 30 N.Y.3d 656, 666 (2018) warranted discovery sanctions.

For months, the New York legal and business communities have been following the progress of Bill S74A, also known as the “Grieving Families Act,” which was passed by the New York legislature in June 2022. Now that Governor Hochul has been reelected, we anticipate she may sign the bill into law within days or weeks.

On November 21, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a determination (the Crude Oil Determination) pursuant to sections 1(a)(ii), 1(b), and 5 of Executive Order 14071 of April 6, 2022 (E.O. 14071, “Prohibiting New Investment in and Certain Services to the Russian Federation in Response to Continued Russian Federation Aggression”), that certain “Covered Services” are subject to the prohibitions of E.O. 14071.

In recent weeks, U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued several general licenses that provide limited exceptions to certain activities that have been prohibited under various Executive Orders (E.O.s).

The White House recently announced that President Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, November 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit. Although the White House did not announce a specific agenda for the meeting, the battle over the future of microchip manufacturing will certainly hang over this first face-to-face meeting between Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping.