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Minnesota Commission Punts on Resource Decision: Keeps Solar in the Game

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

After the years of inconclusive resource planning, months of contested case proceedings, and days of oral argument, discussion and review that led to today’s deliberations, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) unanimously decided...

IRS Issues Final Regulations on Substantial Risks of Forfeiture under Code Section 83

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

On February 25, 2014, the Treasury Department issued final regulations identifying the circumstances in which a substantial risk of forfeiture would exist under Section 83 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”)....

When Money Influences Medicine

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The Wall Street Journal reports on conflict of interest disclosures that have evolved as a result of transvaginal mesh (TVM) lawsuits filed against healthcare giant, Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson....

The NLRB Throws A Flag On The Northwestern Football Program

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

In a much awaited decision, the Regional Director for Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") has determined that grant-in-aid scholarship recipients on the Northwestern University football team are more than just students and...

NLRB Rules That College Football Team Can Seek To Form A Union

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

As Americans across the country anxiously stare at their National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Men's Basketball brackets, the Northwestern University Wildcats are dominating the headlines in both the sports and labor law...

Senate Judiciary Committee Takes Up, Then Tables, Patent Reform

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Earlier today, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held an Executive Business Meeting in which the Patent Transparency and Improvements Act was considered, then held over for another week. Nevertheless, several members of the committee provided...

Advertising Law

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

FDA “Dislikes” Drug Company’s Facebook Page - Switzerland-based IBSA Institut Biochimique SA recently got a thumbs-down from the Food and Drug Administration over a Facebook ad for its hypothyroidism drug, Tirosint, that the agency deemed false...

Alaska Stock, LLC v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. - USCA Ninth Circuit, March 18, 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

Alaska Stock, LLC v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. - USCA Ninth Circuit, March 18, 2014: Ninth Circuit holds that copyright registration of database of stock photography successfully registered component works, even where application...

Supreme Court Clarifies Standing For False Advertising Claims Under The Lanham Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in the case of Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., ___ S.Ct. ___, Case 12-873 (Mar. 25, 2014), settled an open issue regarding the relevant test for standing to sue for false...

The BLS Minimum-Wage "Report" Means . . . What, Exactly?

By EsqSocial Corporation 28/03/14

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released a report entitled "Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers, 2013" which claims that approximately 1.8 million hourly-paid workers made less than the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's $7.25-per-hour...

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