The Free Minnesota Small Business Coalition and several small business owners have petitioned the Minnesota Court of Appeals for an order declaring a number of Governor Walz’s COVID-19 executive orders unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause...

COVID-19 has created additional challenges for employers. Among those is the prospect of whistleblower claims brought by terminated employees...

Many contracts contain a force majeure clause, typically buried within boilerplate language, which can excuse a party’s nonperformance if extraordinary events prevent the party from fulfilling contractual obligations...

For private sector companies responding to the public’s need for COVID-19 countermeasures...

Our nation is taking unprecedented steps to curb the spread of COVID-19. Stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders are taking a toll on businesses as they are forced into temporary closures...

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) establishing circumstances in which employers must provide employees with paid sick or family leave due to the COVID-19 virus...