Shipman & Goodwin LLP (LexBlog China)

On Wednesday, February 26th, the CDC reported the first case of COVID-19 where the source of the chain is, as yet, unknown.  That might indicate that community spread of the virus is going undetected in California. Regardless, the CDC has warned that spread of the virus is inevitable; Connecticut joined the chorus on Wednesday preaching...

This winter, schools have had to cope with a particularly difficult cold and flu season and, now, are grappling with how to respond to concerns about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“2019-nCoV”). What is Novel Coronavirus? The Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) has been closely monitoring the 2019-nCoV, which was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province,...

Back in 2009, it was hard not to miss press coverage of the H1N1 virus. In fact, I wrote a series of posts about how employers could prepare for a possible pandemic while still complying with employment laws. Flash forward to now, and press reports are coming out daily about a new (novel) coronavirus (2019-nCoV)...

In my prior post, I wondered aloud whether there were some rough waters ahead for employers.  Apple recently announced that it would not meet it’s earnings estimates in the first quarter of 2019, in part because of soft demand from China. Other companies are expected to announce some similar issues. Honestly, I’ve had enough conversations...

Last week, in a win for employers facing class action lawsuits, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that statute of limitations tolling does not save absent class members’ untimely successive class actions. China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh. The Court limited its earlier ruling in American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah, which held that the timely filing...

On February 6, 2018, the Second Circuit dismissed the remaining appellate claims in Munn v. Hotchkiss School, the case involving a private school student who contracted tick-borne encephalitis on a school-sponsored trip to China. When this case was last at the Second Circuit in August 2015, the court held that there was sufficient evidence for...

On February 6, 2018, the Second Circuit dismissed the remaining appellate claims in Munn v. Hotchkiss School, the case involving a private school student who contracted tick-borne encephalitis on a school-sponsored trip to China. When this case was last at the Second Circuit in August 2015, the court held that there was sufficient evidence for...

On Friday, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling in Munn v. Hotchkiss School, the case involving a private school student who contracted tick-borne encephalitis on a school-sponsored trip to China.  In its ruling, the Supreme Court found unanimously that 1) the state’s public policy supports imposing an affirmative duty on schools to warn...

My colleagues, Ashley Mendoza and Alfredo Fernandez, return today for a guest post today that shows that employment law issues can sometimes present themselves in different formats.  My thanks to the both of them in presenting a fairly advanced topic in a form that will hopefully be of interest to a few of you out...

Imagine your institution has employed a graduate student to support a technology research program.  The student is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China and holds a student visa, but is not authorized to view certain export-controlled technical data.  Unclear of the restrictions in place, other researchers in your department provide the foreign student...