VI. LEGAL ISSUES INVOLVING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS A. Admissibility of Electronic Medical Records Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6) deals with the admissibility of electronic medical records and makes them an exception to the hearsay rule if the...
Government Affairs Articles
Supreme Court Gives Employers “Epic” Win: Upholding Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements and Rejecting Obama NLRB
In Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (a companion case to NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA and Ernst & Young v. Morris), the U.S. Supreme Court finally and decisively put to rest the Obama-era NLRB's aggressive contention that the National Labor...
State Perspectives in Chemical Regulation
The following videos feature Peter Hsaio of Morrison and Foerster who presented at "TSCA, FIFRA, and Chemical Regulation: Federal and State Perspectives" session at the ALI CLE Environmental Law 2018 conference. The Environmental Law 2018...
Property Rights in the Age of Global Warming
This video features Jonathan Wood discussing Lucas v South Carolina, property rights, and the extent to which the government bears financial responsibility when property is lost due to floods and rising sea levels. Jonathan Wood is an attorney at...
Overlap of of Condemnation and Regulatory Takings: “Murr and Other Blurred Lines”
This year’s ALI CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation 2018 conference included debates on many current issues facing practitioners in this area. A highlight included Professor Maureen (Molly) Brady’s take on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017...
Packingham v. North Carolina: A New (Digital) Age for SCOTUS
"God is Good!" Lester Packingham posted on Facebook, celebrating the dismissal of a traffic ticket. As soon as a Durham police officer saw that post, he arrested Packingham. The crime? Packingham was a registered sex offender and, in North...
Highly Confused: Marijuana Businesses Under Trump
"Good people don't smoke marijuana." "[Marijuana] is a very real danger." "We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized." Those are all quotes from Trump's Attorney General nominee...