Missouri and Kansas employers are grappling with many issues related to their employees and COVID-19. These issues have likely been compounded by the recent statewide order in Kansas to close
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has issued an executive order immediately staying the initiation of all new evictions and foreclosures. The declaration provides in pertinent part: “I hereby direct and order
Last week, the Administrator of the federal Small Business Administration (“SBA”) issued a statement that the SBA would work with state governors to provide targeted, low-interest disaster recovery loans to
For small and medium-sized businesses in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the current economic and political landscape regarding COVID-19 is presenting unique problems and extreme financial challenges. This likely includes
An Athletic Business article quotes highlights from Mit Winter’s blog post on the NAIA’s recent proposal to allow NAIA college athletes to be paid for the use of their name,
While the NCAA moves slowly toward proposing bylaws that would allow college athletes to be compensated for the use of their names, images, and likenesses (“NILs”), another major college athletics
California’s status as the only state to pass and enact a college athlete name, image, and likeness (NIL) bill may soon be changing. Colorado is now one step away from
There have been ongoing discussions about the NCAA allegations towards the University of Kansas relating to the recruitment of men’s basketball players. The University recently submitted it’s response to the
On Wednesday, higher education leaders testified in the state of Kansas in support of a bill to allow college athletes to be paid for the use of their names, images
It happens rarely, but there are some areas in which lawyers provide legal advice that is systematically ignored by a large segment of clients. For many decades, trademark lawyers have
Joining 28 other states, Kansas now has a pending bill that would allow college athletes at Kansas colleges and universities to be compensated for the use of their names, images,
Lawmakers in Missouri are still questioning potential conflicts of interest within the medical marijuana industry. Over 800 medical marijuana applicants were denied over the past month, and the Missouri House’s
