Automotive industry participants may face increased costs and risk from wholly foreign anticompetitive activities far upstream in their global supply chain. Antitrust laws, like the Sherman Act, protect American markets from anticompetitive...
Already on death row in California for killing 10 women in an area of Los Angeles known for street crime, Chester D. Turner, 47, was sentenced Friday to the ultimate penalty in another four slayings during the 1980s and 1990s.
Recent IRS rulings and a U.S. Tax Court decision continue to lay a solid foundation for captive insurance companies. However, the tax requirements must be strictly followed. Below we provide an update to assist captives in achieving their tax...
The New York Court of Appeals recently reversed the trial court’s order requiring plaintiffs in lead poisoning cases to produce detailed medical reports chronicling each alleged injury and causally connecting those injuries to plaintiffs’ exposures...
In re Dinsmore - Addressing the issue of whether the filing of a terminal disclaimer that rendered a patent unenforceable by the applicants was an error for the purposes of the reissue statute, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
Texas-based ACE Cash Express will pay a total of $10 million to settle an enforcement action brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), predicated upon a finding by the CFPB that ACE had engaged in unfair, deceptive, and abusive...
Ted Hester, Eleanor Hill and Dan Donovan of our group are well aware of Congress' penchant for issuing subpoenas for records and the testimony of corporate officials. They often engage in extensive negotiations with congressional investigators over...
The National Labor Relations Board (the "Board" or NLRB) recently issued a pair of decisions applying its Specialty Healthcare test to determine if petitioned-for units in two large department stores were appropriate for bargaining purposes. The...
Barry P. Goldberg has found that most clients are shocked when they learn that they could lose their licenses after an accident---even if they were not at fault and even if they had sufficient liability insurance! Moreover, most people incorrectly...
Federal contractors beware. More changes are coming your way, again. On July 31, 2014, President Obama issued an executive order titled the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order”. First, the order requires companies to disclose to the...
