8/10/20
By: Ashley Hobson On August 3, 2020, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York threw a major curveball to employers trying to comply with the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA) when it upheld the New York Attorney General’s challenges to a…
Are Construction Codes Copyrightable?
7/10/20
By: Catherine Bednar and Kathleen Cusack A case pending in the Southern District of New York is exploring the question of whether model construction codes can be copyrighted. The case, International Code Council v. UpCodes, was filed in 2017 and debates whether various construction codes that were drafted by a non-governmental entity, International Code Council…