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Tales From The Crypt - Rule 6: Never Mix Business With Pleasure

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Ed. Note-this week on am on a Spring Break college tour with my daughter. The Two Tough Cookies whom are penning the Tales From the Crypt Series have graciously agreed to contribute a week’s worth of workplace Tales from their crypts so help...

When Can You Sue for Loss of Consortium?

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Loss of consortium is a personal injury claim that can lead to damages for loss of affection and normal marital relations. In some cases, loss of consortium can also apply to a relationship between parents and children. So when can a loss of consortium claim be made, and what will......

This Week In Securities Litigation (Week ending March 28, 2014)

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The New York Attorney General secured one of the most significant market crisis settlements to date this week. The former CEO of Bank of America agreed to a three year bar from serving as an officer or director of a public company. Collectively, the...

Copyright Office to Study Music Licensing

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The United States Copyright Office has announced the initiation of a study of the effectiveness of existing methods of music licensing. Three types of licenses were mentioned in the announcement: (1) compulsory licenses for the reproduction and...

A (POM) Wonderful Result For Consumer Class Action Defendants

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

On March 25, 2014, the court in In re: POM Wonderful LLC Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, Case No. ML 10-02199 DDP (C.D. Cal.), granted a motion by defendant POM Wonderful LLC (“POM”) to decertify a previously certified class of consumers...

New Affirmative Action Rules Require Immediate Action by Government Contractors and Subcontractors

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

In October 2013, we alerted government contractors and subcontractors to newly-issued regulations establishing additional affirmative action reporting and hiring preference requirements for veterans and persons with disabilities. The new rules...

NLRB Rules That Scholarship Football Players At Northwestern University Are “Employees” Under The National Labor Relations Act With Right To Unionize; Northwestern Will Appeal

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Earlier this week, NLRB Regional Director for Region 13, Peter Sung Ohr, issued a highly publicized decision and ruled that grant-in-aid scholarship football players at Northwestern University are “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act...

Guilty pleas of 6 more ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf workers are unsealed by Manhattan judge

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

More details were revealed Friday about a claimed four-year scheme by leaders of now-shuttered BigLaw firm Dewey & LeBoeuf to, as emails put it, "cook the books," when six more guilty pleas by former employees were unsealed by a judge in the New York case.

R. v. Cook: When a Post-Conviction Production Application does not require the Trotta Analysis

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The Ontario Court of Appeal’s March 4, 2014 decision in R. v. Cook is an outstanding illustration of appellate criminal procedure regarding a production application where disclosure was sought to support a potential fresh evidence application....

Assisted Living Facility Reform Likely In 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Reform of assisted living facilities (ALFs) has returned for the 2014 Florida Regular Session. The major reforms proposed seek to improve accountability, transparency, and regulation of ALF operations....
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