OTG Management, LLC (“OTG”), seeks to enjoin unnamed defendants from anonymously continuing “a misleading uniform resource locator (“URL”) and corresponding email services,” posing as an OTG employee and using OTG service marks and trade names....
Two years ago, healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was facing a $1.2 billion judgment after a jury determined J&J concealed the risks of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal while it aggressively and improperly marketed it off-label. At the time it was...
The good folks at Nova Scotia’s Artists’ Legal Information Society (ALIS) have published their free Legal Guide for Writers, a solid plain-English resource which will prove useful both for authors and their lawyers. Published under a Creative Commons...
Each month when we send out our newsletter we include in it a compliance poll. The poll gives us insights into trends in the compliance industry that help us provide better products such as policy and procedure software, employee compliance training...
In a follow up to our prior post, we now report that the Minnesota Commission subsequently modified its initial decision to clarify that Xcel Energy is directed to negotiate a power purchase agreement with the solar bidder, which will be reviewed by...
In the last installment on the US margin regulations, we touched on the building blocks of Regulation U, which prohibits a bank or a non-bank lender (who is not a broker-dealer) from extending “purpose credit” that is “secured directly or indirectly”...
The late fashion designer L'Wren Scott's will leaves her entire $9 million estate to her boyfriend, Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. Scott's estate includes jewelry, furniture, clothing, automobiles, and property, Reuters reports.
You’ve probably heard of Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking top-secret information about government surveillance programs to the news media, and Bradley Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking reams of classified material a
Were the Doors thinking about the prospect of unionized college football when they wrote and performed “The End”? That’s how many of us felt when the NLRB ruled that Northwestern University football players could form a union. Now that the shock and...
Enacted by Congress after the Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s, the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (“FIRREA”) gives the FDIC sweeping authority to resolve the problems posed by a failed financial institution. This...
