Insights & News

By: Shawn M. Flynn and Jared J. Roberts  In a recent October 2021 Townhall article, Binnall Law Group correctly predicted that the Supreme Court would strike down the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) vaccine mandate because such a mandate is not within the statutory authority of OSHA. Specifically, the article argued that the Supreme Court should find that “OSHA’s intelligible principle is unconstitutionally broad, and thus their vaccine mandate is invalid and unconstitutional. Even if OSHA’s intelligible principle were legitimate, by mandating vaccines, OSHA would not be acting within the bounds of their intended power.” The article argued that […]

By: Jared Roberts On March 2, 2021, Virginia became just the second state in the United States to enact a consumer data protection act. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) will offer consumers in the Commonwealth greater protection over their private information.  It is a well-known business practice for companies to collect and process the personal data of others for purposes of targeted advertising based on the data, selling the data, and profiling the data. We’ve already seen large companies begin to try and counteract this practice, the prime example being Apple, which initiated a function allowing users to […]