Tag Archives: business

ADA & Website Accessibility

Sofia Manzo – When the Americans with Disabilities Act was first enacted in the 1990s, Congress failed to anticipate the role that the internet would play in people’s lives. While the ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodations such as restaurants, retail stores, and theaters, no such allowance was […]

Vaccine Passports: Saving Travel or Saved by Travel?

Alfredo Dally – Can you imagine a world where you have to show your boarding ticket, passport, and a COVID-19 vaccine record in order to travel abroad? Well, as the world begins to reopen to the idea of travel, many are working on systems to address the ongoing COVD-19 pandemic. One proposed new measure is […]

Stark Law Regulatory Reform

Huiping Liu – On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Final Rule to revise and clarify the regulations that interpret the physician self-referral law (often called the “Stark Law”).  Medicare Program; Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations, 86 Fed. Reg. 77,492 (Dec. 2, 2020).  When the Stark […]

How the Hunger for Delivery Services During COVID-19 Fueled Litigation

Logan Zucchino – On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding a fairly new and unexplained pandemic, COVID-19. At that time, there were 98 confirmed cases of the virus, and no country outside of China reported any deaths. As of April 6, 2021, the worldwide deaths […]