On August 11, 2026, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) released its Health Center Program Scope of Project Policy Manual (“Scope Manual”), providing comprehensive guidance on what constitutes a health center’s approved scope of project under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. The Scope Manual became effective immediately upon release.
Federally Qualified Health Centers (“FQHCs”) and “look-alikes” cannot add a delivery site, new service category or expanded target population without prior approval from HRSA via…
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An employee handbook is one of the most important documents an employer can maintain. It serves as a guide for employees, establishes workplace expectations, and helps ensure consistent application of company policies. A handbook also gives supervisors and managers a common reference point when questions arise regarding discipline, leave, benefits, workplace conduct, remote work, technology use, confidentiality, or other employment-related issues. When handbook provisions are unclear, vague, outdated, or subject to multiple interpretations, misunderstandings and disputes can arise that …
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On September 2, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification announced that certain H-2A employers may become responsible for retroactive wage adjustments after the Department adopts a new methodology for calculating Adverse Effect Wage Rates.
The announcement follows an August 26, 2026 order in United Farm Workers, et al. v. DOL, et al., No. 25-cv-01614-KES-EGC. The court held that the DOL’s October 2025 interim-final-rule methodology is unlawful but has left the rule and existing AEWRs…
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A guide to Wisconsin custody and placement laws, court-appointed professionals, and how your child’s wishes impact custody decisions.

“Once my son turns 14, he’ll finally get to decide which parent he wants to live with. ”

As a Wisconsin family law attorney, I’ve heard this assumption from countless clients navigating paternity, divorce, or post-divorce matters. Unfortunately, this is not true. Under Wisconsin law, children under the age of 18 never truly get to choose which parent they…
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Overview ArticleAmundsen Davis Transportation & Logistics AlertSeptember 4, 2026A growing trend in Illinois trucking litigation is placing motor carriers under increased legal and financial scrutiny. As plaintiffs increasingly pursue punitive damages against motor carriers, lawsuits are expanding beyond questions of driver negligence and into the company’s hiring, training, supervision, and safety practices.Why Are Punitive Damages Increasingly Common in Illinois Trucking Litigation?After Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law a bill that allows the recovery of punitive damages…
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“I am greatly interested in Roy and like him.”

Lavinia Goodell, January 1876

Lavinia Goodell had a reformer’s nature and throughout her life strove to help those in need, whether it desperate to extricate themselves from abusive marriages or young men who had run afoul of the law. Although Lavinia generally had good instincts about peoples’ nature, she sometimes expended energy trying to help someone who was simply beyond help. One of the most bitter disappointments of her life…
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  • Corewell Health unveiled a $1.7B plan to build two hospital towers in Michigan: an 11-story, 780k-sf facility at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids and an eight-story, 423k-sf tower at Beaumont Troy Hospital. The projects will add 360 private rooms and are expected to open in 2030.
  • Moody’s recently reported nonprofit and public hospital profitability softened in FY 2025, with median EBITDA margins falling from 6.2% to 5.9% and operating margins declining from 1.3% to 1.2%. Revenue grew 8.9%, narrowly

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    The Indiana Court of Appeals (the “Court”) reversed a trial court’s temporary commitment order, holding the evidence did not clearly and convincingly establish the patient was gravely disabled. Although the evidence supported the patient suffered from mental illness and exhibited symptoms associated with a manic episode, the Court concluded the evidence did not demonstrate those symptoms resulted in an inability to function independently. In re Civil Commitment of E.R., No. 26A-MH-1878, 2026 WL 2427159 (Ind. Ct. App. Aug. …
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    A non-compete agreement is one of the most significant employment-related documents an employer may ask an employee to sign. It can help protect customer relationships, confidential information, trade secrets, goodwill, and other legitimate business interests when an employee leaves the company. At the same time, a non-compete can restrict an employee’s ability to earn a living. For that reason, Wisconsin courts scrutinize these agreements carefully and will not enforce restrictions that go further than Wisconsin law permits.
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    Entry to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the Capitol in Madison. Photograph by Margo Kirchner. By Alexandria Staubach The Wisconsin Supreme Court opens its session with oral arguments next week, including a case concerning the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s reverse waiver statute. “Reverse waiver” is used to describe a case that begins in adult court but is later transferred to juvenile court. Under the pertinent statute, adult circuit courts exercise original jurisdiction over various homicide charges for any child alleged to have…
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    Can Employers Restrict Union Pins and Shirts? Lessons From the Starbucks DecisionEmployers may have more flexibility to enforce neutral dress code and uniform policies, even when those policies affect employees’ display of union insignia.On September 2, 2026, in a decision involving Starbucks’ New York Reserve Roastery, the Second Circuit rejected the NLRB’s stringent standard to workplace rules that restricts employees’ ability to display union insignia under its Tesla decision. The court concluded that the Board’s Tesla standard did not…
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    Elizabeth Tucker and Brett Travers join the firm’s health care regulatory and real estate practices, signaling rapid investment in the Missouri market.
    Hall Render, the nation’s leading law firm focused exclusively on health care, is pleased to welcome Elizabeth (“Ellie”) Tucker and Brett Travers as shareholders to its recently opened office in St. Louis, Missouri. Ellie is a health care operations and regulatory attorney primarily representing clients in the post-acute care sector, while Brett advises health care clients on…
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    By Alexandria Staubach The State Legislature’s Legislative Council created a study committee to evaluate the district attorney funding formula, and the first of four committee meetings occurred at the Capitol last week.For almost four decades Wisconsin has struggled with the model used to allocate prosecution resources across the state’s many offices. The current funding formula assigns the available number of full-time employment positions based on caseload as an empirical measure of need. According to some, the evolution of a prosecutor’s practice has…
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    By Attorney Stephen E. Mays
    A first offense OWI in Wisconsin is a civil violation, not a crime — no jail, no criminal record. That is the part most people hear first, and it is true. What almost nobody tells you at the roadside is that the deadlines that decide your driver’s license start running within days of the arrest, and that this “civil ticket” follows you for the rest of your life if you simply pay it.
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    By Attorney Stephen E. Mays
    The court date printed on a Wisconsin OWI citation is rarely immediate — and for a first offense, that first appearance is short, procedural, and, if you understand what it is for, nothing to fear. But two things about it surprise almost everyone: the most important deadlines in your case expire before that date, and what you say at the appearance can lock in or give away your right to a jury.
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    By Attorney Stephen E. Mays
    Most first-time OWI defendants in Wisconsin assume there is nothing to defend — the machine said 0.08, so pay the ticket. After three decades practicing in Dane County’s courts — on both sides of OWI cases — I can tell you that assumption gives away real defenses in a surprising number of cases. The state’s evidence is built by human beings following detailed rules at every step — the stop, the roadside tests, the…
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