A federal court for the Southern District of Texas has sanctioned a pro se litigant for making fraudulent misrepresentations to his homeowner’s insurer following a fire, and for bringing a bad faith action against the insurer....
Dhillon v. Doe - USDC N.D. California, February 25, 2014: Plaintiff, an attorney and the vice chairperson of the California Republican Party, brought suit against MungerGames.net, a website critical of the California Republican Party, for the...
On March 11, 2014, the Canadian government announced that it had concluded a new free trade agreement with South Korea following negotiations that have lasted for over nine years. This agreement is stated to be part of the government's “most...
March Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts The March § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs and GRATs is 2.2%, which is a 0.2%...
Recently, the Second District Court of Appeal of Florida reviewed the steps a trial court should take to protect trade secrets from disclosure in discovery. In Bright House Networks, LLC v. Cassidy, 129 So.3d 501, 2014 WL 84237 (Fla.2d DCA 2014),...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has held that Section 22340(a) of the California Financial Code does not restrict licensed finance lenders to selling loans secured by real estate to only institutional investors. In...
A California jury recently awarded Catherine Zulfer, a former accounting executive at Playboy Enterprises, $6 million after finding that Playboy violated the whistle-blower provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) when it fired her for...
The Supreme Court of Canada recently granted leave to appeal in Minister of National Revenue v Duncan Thompson, 2013 FCA 197, which touches on the issue of whether a lawyer subject to enforcement proceedings can claim solicitor-client privilege over...
On March 6, Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Deb Fisher (R-NE) introduced S. 2082, the Two-Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014, to remedy several issues with the two-midnight rule....
Last week, the City of Detroit Chapter 11 bankruptcy case saw a handful of developments. First, the City filed a motion seeking approval of a further revised proposed settlement with its swap counterparties. The City now seeks to settle the...
