Pursuant to California’s Contractors License Law, all license classifications must have a qualifier or qualifying individual. This alert discusses what is required if your qualifier is leaving and some possible delays you may face when replacing your qualifier.

In a significant development in the ever-expanding universe of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) litigation, on January 29, 2020, Facebook agreed to pay $550 million to settle a BIPA class action that was filed in the Northern District of California.

On December 4, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comments on which of the approximately 600 per- and polyfluorinated chemical substances (PFAS) currently active in U.S. commerce should be added to environmental reporting requirements under the Toxics Release Inventory. 

The numbers are in – the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently published its annual breakdown of false claims litigation undertaken by its Civil Division. The report show new matters filed by year, the DOJ's recoveries through judgments and settlements, and the share of the recoveries by relators in qui tam litigation. For healthcare providers, here are some quick takeaways.

Under California’s Contractors’ State License Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 7000 et seq., all contractors’ and subcontractors’ licenses expire two years from the last day of the month in which the license issued, or two years from the date on which the renewed license last expired.

On January 21, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Facebook’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review whether a group of potentially millions of Facebook users have constitutional standing to pursue claims brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for alleged violations of the statute’s notice and consent mandates.

If you are contemplating purchasing or selling a business entity that is a licensed California contractor or even simply changing the type of business entity under which you operate as a licensed California contractor, you must carefully consider and understand the implications and consequences.

On January 10, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published a notice of proposed rulemaking to update regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).