In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp, the Supreme Court of the United States considered whether the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applied to oral complaints. In Kasten, an employee orally complained to his company about an unlawful practice, for which he was subsequently fired. In addition to orally complaining to [...]
The time has once again arrived to focus on cost reductions achievable by appealing your property taxes. You have recently received your 2011 Notice of Assessment. As discussed below, there is a very limited window of opportunity to protest your property tax assessment. To understand the importance of that Notice of Assessment, a bit of [...]
In California, a woman who sued her employer may not assert attorney client privilege to emails she sent her attorney from her work email, a California appeals court ruled. The woman claimed that the emails she sent to her attorney from her work email were protected under the attorney client privilege doctrine. The court noted [...]
In a change to Michigan’s payment of wages and benefits law, the Michigan Legislature recently changed the law so that employers may require their employees to accept compensation in a paperless form; through either direct deposit or by using a payroll debit card. The amendment to the Payment of Wage and Fringe Benefits is attached. [...]
The Michigan Limited Liability Company Act has recently been amended (Public Act 290 of 2010). The changes will be discussed in a series of articles on our firm blog. One of the most important changes to the Act is to allow a corporation to be converted into a limited liability company, or the conversion of [...]
The State of Michigan has recently created an exception to the requirement that a minor must have a work permit from the minor’s school in order to be employed. Effective immediately, a work permit is not required for a minor who is working as an unpaid volunteer for a charitable organization that is recognized as [...]
A recent case decided by the Michigan Court of Appeals addressed the issue of whether a “judgment lien survives and can be foreclosed on after the judgment debtor’s conveyance of the encumbered real property to a vendee who has record notice of the lien, but where no available closing proceeds are distributed to the judgment [...]
On August 25, 2010, we posted an article about a trademark dispute between the Seventh Day Adventists and Walter McGill and the Creation 7th Day Adventist Church. In that blog we discussed the then recent decision by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of the Seventh Day Adventists. This update [...]
In early October 2010, Governor Granholm signed into law the Commercial Real Estate Broker’s Lien Act (the “Act”). The intent of the Act is to remedy the concerns of commercial real estate brokers regarding their inability to collect payment for their brokerage work. The Act permits commercial real estate brokers to record a lien on [...]
In 1031 Lapeer L.L.C. v. Rice, the defendant sought to lease a gas station to the plaintiff for a period of ten years. The defendant knew that the property was contaminated, but failed to inform the plaintiff of that fact. After the parties entered into the lease agreement, the plaintiff sought to avoid the agreement, [...]
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