Employee Benefits (ERISA)

Healthcare

Catherine E. Livingston | Jones Day

Editor: Please describe your background as Health Care Counsel in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel where you had a key role in developing and advising on the Affordable Care Act. Livingston: I spent ten years as an executive in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, the last three of which were...

Appellate Law

Paul Hamburger, Roberta K. Chevlowe, Lisa A. Berkowitz Herrnson, Tzvia Feiertag | Proskauer

On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that will affect virtually all employers across the country. In United States v. Windsor, the Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. That section of...

Appellate Law

Katharine H. Parker, Roberta K. Chevlowe, Jacquelyn R. Weisman | Proskauer

On June 26, 2013, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal law that defined "marriage" as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and "spouse" as a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. United States v. Windsor...