WEST VIRGINIA RECORD

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution and Civil Justice will be holding a hearing today on the ACCESS (ADA Compliance for Customer Entry to Stores and Services) Act, which aims to protect small businesses from the widespread abuse of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

WASHINGTON D.C. -- A federal act promoting transparency and access to information relating to asbestos claims recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and has now been introduced in the Senate.

Two West Virginia Law faculty members have been published on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog (OxHRH Blog) recently. Dr. Anne Marie Lofaso, a professor at the West Virginia University College of Law, wrote an article for the blog evaluating the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) unanimous decision to dismiss college football players’ petition for union representation. Lofaso, who spent 10 years as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board’s Appellate and Supreme Court Branches,

Two West Virginia University Law students have been published on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog (OxHRH Blog). Tasha Frazie and Christopher Smith, both J.D.

DENVER -- Steptoe & Johnson PLLC will be participating in this year’s annual NAPE Denver Expo in Denver, Colorado on Dec. 9 & 10, at the Colorado Convention Center.

For the sixth consecutive year, attorney Dale W. Steager has been named editor of the annual “Guidebook to West Virginia Taxes.” The West Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants publishes the guidebook annually and Steager has been the editor since 2010.

West Virginia families who have opened their homes and expanded their families by adopting children came out to celebrate National Adoption Month. Joining the celebration was Judge Gary Johnson, Chairman of the Supreme Court’s Court Improvement Program Oversight Board (CIP) since 2001, who gave a speech at the Adoption Day ceremony on Nov. 21, in South Charleston.

In 2011, the United Nations established the first set of global standards for preventing businesses from violating human rights by adopted the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Now, four years later, a new book has emerged courtesy of a WVU College of Law conference in Sept. 2013.