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CFPB urged to adopt strong protections for LEP consumers

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) has issued a brief in which it urges the CFPB and other federal agencies to adopt strong language access protections to improve the mortgage marketplace for limited English proficiency (LEP) consumers. Although...

European Data Protection Supervisor Slams EU – US Privacy Shield

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Giovanni Buttarelli issued his formal opinion on the EU- US Privacy Shield, arguing that while it’s a step in the right direction, “robust improvements” are needed. The EDPS is an independent...

Court Of Chancery Explains When Merger Price Not Is The Appraised Value

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

This decision explains when a price in a management lead buy out that is close to a merger price set after a shopping of a company may still not be the “fair value” required by Delaware appraisal law....
By: Morris James LLP

Supreme Court Returns Affordable Care Act Contraceptive-Coverage Cases to Lower Courts

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously remanded a consolidated appeal of seven cases addressing the contraceptive-coverage “accommodation” for religious organizations under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the Courts of Appeals. Zubik v. Burwell, No....

Ski resorts have no liability for avalanches, Colorado Supreme Court rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

Ski resorts in Colorado are protected from liability for avalanches because they are an inherent risk of skiing, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

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Worth Another Look: Budget Preview

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

June is a time to celebrate Father’s Day, countless graduations and the first day of summer. However, anyone involved in government or politics knows that June is also the month of the state budget here in Pennsylvania. Though the 2015-2016 budget...

EU: Privacy Shield on hold, model clauses under attack

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

In the latest (although not unexpected) blow to the Privacy Shield, the European Parliament has passed a resolution stating that the European Commission should renegotiate the Privacy Shield to seek improvements beyond the agreement reached between...

Federal Circuit Holds That an Offer to Sell a Drug Product Was a Patent-Invalidating Offer for Sale under Pre-AIA § 102(b) Even Though the Offer Lacked “Safety and Liability Terms”

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

On May 13, 2016, the Federal Circuit determined that Merck’s crystalline calcium salt of tetrahydrofolic acid (“MTHF”) had been the subject of a commercial offer for sale, and held Merck’s MTHF claim in U.S. Patent No. 6,441,168 (the “’168 patent”)...

Unanimous Support for Conservation in Senate Appropriations Committee

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

Who knew? On May 19 those wild eyed environmentalists on the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously (no misprint) passed a FY 2017 agriculture and rural development bill that includes significant funding for conservation work. The bill now...

Learning From the Rapid Rise and Fall of Startup Billionaires

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/06/16

It's easy to get a complex about not being a billionaire when there are so many of them now, and so young. For example, last year Elizabeth Holmes was on top of the world, worth billions of dollars due to the valuation of her company Theranos.

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