by Girish Anand | Mar 19, 2009 | Health Care Reform
You don’t get to be the world’s largest retailer without having some chops. Evidently reading the Obamaic tea leaves during the 2008 campaign, WalMart set in motion a plan to market Electronic Health Record (EHR) computer systems to physicians, and in so...
by Girish Anand | Mar 18, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Random Musings
Major League Baseball, or MLB, has enjoyed a federal antitrust exemption since 1922 due to a Supreme Court’s ruling that the sport did not engage in interstate commerce. Quite curious because even back then, teams had to cross state lines to play each other, but...
by Girish Anand | Mar 16, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
If you thought that four years late and $350 million over budget for the largely unneeded U.S. Capitol Visitor Center was bad, wait till you see what the projects flowing from the recent $787 billion stimulus package will cost. The 1931 David-Bacon Act (which...
by Girish Anand | Mar 14, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
It’s funny–and illustrative–that Democrats in the U.S. have always ached for the liberalism of our northern neighbor, which is one reason why I’ve been warning on these pages that health care reform, Demo-style, is nothing but a Trojan Horse...
by Girish Anand | Mar 13, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), commonly referred to as the Wagner Act, exempted small businesses from union organization, but the definition of small business has not been updated since 1959. The exemption ends when a small, non-retail business grosses...