by author | May 7, 2020 | Author: Bill Cafaro
What is Price Gouging? Price gouging is raising the price of a product excessively higher than the merchant’s cost to take advantage of a shortage caused by an emergency, like the pandemic we’re now in. Is Price Gouging Really a Crime? Yes, under NY State and NY City...
by author | Apr 22, 2020 | Author: Bill Cafaro
OUR NURSES HAVE A RIGHT TO BE ANGRY First – Are Nurses Entitled To Get Paid For Their COVID Sick Days? Everyone in New York who has to stay home because they have (or might have) COVID 19 and works for a large employer (like a hospital) is entitled to 14 days of paid...
by author | Mar 30, 2020 | Author: Bill Cafaro
I Heard That Tenants Might Not Have to Pay Rent During the Coronavirus shutdown. Is this True? Yes – Under a proposed1 New York State Law, all residential tenants who qualify will have their rent payments suspended for the 90 days following the effective date of the...
by author | Oct 15, 2019 | Author: Bill Cafaro
Legal Backdrop to Ed O’Bannon’s Lawsuit Against the NCAA and the California Fair Pay to Play Act In 2008, Ed O’Bannon, the former All-American UCLA power forward, happened to see his likeness on a video game which he had never authorized or been compensated for, so he...
by author | Jul 10, 2019 | Author: Bill Cafaro
The City of Everett, Washington, got very upset with the so called “Bikini Baristas”, and passed local laws which criminalized the clothing they wear as “lewd conduct”, and enacted a dress code for “Quick-Service Facilities,” which was clearly designed to apply to the...
by author | Apr 12, 2019 | Author: Bill Cafaro
Author: Louis M. Leon, Associate Attorney On April 5, 2019, the Law Offices of William Cafaro filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn against Wenig Saltiel LLP, Ira Greene, Jeffrey L. Saltiel, and Meryl L. Wenig (a real estate law firm, its...
