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Update: EU VAT on E-Commerce

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

There are a great variety of electronically provided services (“e-services”) and the respective market is rapidly growing. The general definition is that e-services are services which are delivered over the Internet or an electronic network and...

Eight Concurrent Petitions Does not Win Sympathy or a Delay

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

Most Conduct of Proceeding Orders issued by the Board are unremarkable, but in Mobotix Corp. v, e-Watch, Inc., [IPR2013-00499], Paper 16 (Feburary 28, 2014), the patent owner sought a six month delay in the proceedings because it was involved in a...

SCOTUS Holds State-Law Securities Class Actions Not Precluded By Federal Law

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

On February 26, the Supreme Court held that the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (Securities Litigation Act) does not preclude four state-law based class actions against firms and individuals who allegedly helped Allen Stanford...

First Horizon Reaches Mortgage Loan Settlement With Freddie Mac

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

There is now yet another settlement in the mortgage loan industry to report. First Horizon National Corp. announced last week that it has entered into a definitive resolution agreement with Freddie Mac regarding loan repurchase issues. The agreement...

FTC, PIRG complaint reports highlight consumer dissatisfaction with debt collection industry

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

The FTC released its annual Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book on February 27, 2014, providing national and state-by-state data on consumer complaints received by the FTC, all U.S. and Canadian Better Business Bureaus, the CFPB and other federal and...

The BVI Commercial Court – interfacing with arbitration

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

Recent decisions in the BVI Commercial Court have shaped the applicability and enforcement of arbitration clauses and, notably, how they interface with BVI statutory remedies and liquidations. Standing to arbitrate? In Comodo Holdings Ltd the...

Oscar Pistorius Trial: 5 Legal Facts You May Not Know

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

The Oscar Pistorius murder trial, which is being called the "trial of the century" in South Africa, began today with testimony from a neighbor of the Olympic track star.

New York’s highest court narrows class of statutory residents: good news for some out-of-state owners of residential property in New York

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

New York tax law provides that a person who is in New York state for more than 183 days (in whole or in part) in a year and maintains a permanent place of abode in New York is a statutory resident, subject to tax on all income, regardless of that...

Potential clients and the plan provider ties that bind

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

How many times as a retirement plan provider that you contact a retirement plan that is paying too much money and getting too little back in plan services? If you’re a registered investment advisor offering 3(38) service and you’re charging 20 basis...

Pointing Lasers at Helicopters Can Lead to Arrest

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/14

Laser pointers can be fun, useful gadgets, but pointing them at helicopters can land you in handcuffs. Laser pointer pranksters may think these helicopter hijinks are funny, but state and federal law enforcement aren't laughing.......



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