Co-authored by Kristine M. Scott, Estate Planning Associate School is out, the kids are home, and you’re traveling to new places and spending time with your family. It’s summer time! While going out on the boat sounds like a good idea, try to make time to take a fresh...
Month: July 2018
Judge Confirms: You Can Be Fired for Flipping Off the President without Violating Your First Amendment Rights
At the end of last year, I shared about the case of Juli Briskman, who was photographed flipping the bird at President Trump’s motorcade. Her company, which oversees government contractors, fired her after she shared the photo on social media. Briskman then filed a...
What You Need to Know about the Travel Ban
The US Supreme Court upheld the third, re-engineered version of President Trump's travel ban by a vote of 5 to 4. This decision will add another brick to the invisible wall creating negative disruption to businesses, families, and our country’s prosperity. We already...
It Looks Like a Duck, It Quacks Like a Duck, But It… Might Not Be a Duck?
Crystal Broughan is grateful that E. Paul Cuffe, our summer guest blogger and a summer law clerk at Marks Gray, P.A., co-authored this article. Many are familiar with the duck test. It’s a popular reasoning exercise where habitual characteristics are used to identify...
Can I Travel While My Petition Is Pending?
The answer depends on a number of factors. What type of petition have you filed? Is your current visa expired? Are you changing employers? Download this FAQs PDF to learn more.
Giselle Carson’s journey to become a United States Citizen is featured on genwnow.com
Shareholder Giselle Carson shared her personal journey in escaping the authoritarian Castro regime to Montreal, Canada then immigrating to the United States where she settled with her husband, Jeff, and became an attorney. Her experience provides a unique skill set to...
WHOIS Using Your Website Content in Bad Faith? It’s Now Harder to Find Out
Crystal Broughan is grateful that E. Paul Cuffe, a summer law clerk at Marks Gray, P.A., co-authored this article. You may have heard of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and for good reason. The regulation, effective May 25, 2018, applies...
I-9 Audits Continue to Surge This Summer
Before the summer began, the number of worksite immigration-enforcement investigations had already doubled last year’s. And employers’ risk is only rising, as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moves forwards with a nationwide increase of Form I-9 audits...