Last month, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed the scope of “fraud-in-the-inducement” liability under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, and, in doing so, reversed the dismissal of a claim related to the marketing of a...
Millennials have been called the “Me, Me, Me Generation” by Time Magazine; “entitled” by just about everyone; and “slackers” by many managers. Yet, this generation — born between 1980 and 1999 — is comprised of 80 million workers who will be...
Court Reporters: When working with interpreters, court reporters have certain added responsibilities, and there are best practices that a court reporter can adopt to be more efficient. The first duty the court reporter has is to swear in the...
Inequitable Conduct Found Based on Rule 131 Declaration - In Intellect Wireless, Inc. v. HTC Corp., Appeal No. 12- 1658, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment of unenforceability of the asserted patents due to inequitable...
On November 13, 2013, the FTC announced that it had denied AssertID Inc.'s ("AssertID") application for approval of a social network-based method of obtaining verifiable parental consent under the amended Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule...
In today’s global marketplace, companies need to be informed about foreign laws and practices that impact, or may potentially impact, their businesses in the various regions they serve. This edition of Global Connection offers insight into entering...
A Nebraska attorney has been indefinitely suspended from practice because she spoke with a prosecutor about her former client in a rape case, allegedly motivated by hatred for the lawyer who replaced her in representing Kevin H. Beltran and a desire to see Beltran convicted. Attorney Donna J.
In this memorandum opinion denying defendants’ motion to dismiss, the Court of Chancery held that plaintiff alleged particularized facts showing a board of directors breached its fiduciary duty of loyalty by approving the award of stock options to...
It used to be that Black Friday was the height of American consumerism - rabid shoppers rising at the break of day to engage in bargain hunting on a grand and aggressive scale, bent on scoring huge savings on Christmas gifts, and the retailers...
INTRODUCTION It is now just over a year since the first employers reached their automatic enrolment staging dates and therefore many of the practical issues that arise for employers when implementing the reforms are now apparent. Updated versions of...
