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[Video] Managing Your Internal Investigation Program June 3 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

Global companies have to design and implement an efficient process for conducting internal investigations. An effective ethics and compliance program requires companies to screen complaints, assign appropriate resources to each, and resolve...

EEOC Issues New Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

On July 14, 2014, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), by a 3-to-2 vote of commissioners, issued Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues (the "Guidance"), along with a question and answer document about...

Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd. (Fed. Cir.)

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

Case Name: Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd., 2013-1418, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 7494 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 22, 2014) (Circuit Judges Rader, Prost, and Chen presiding; Opinion by Chen, J.; Dissent by Rader, C.J.) (appeal from D.N.J., Wigenton, J.)....

CFPB Proposes Amendments to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

The CFPB has proposed a rule to improve information reported about the residential mortgage market. According to the CFPB, the rule would shed more light on consumers’ access to mortgage credit by updating the reporting requirements of the Home...

Code of Conduct, Compliance Policies and Procedures-Part IV

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

This is the fourth and final installment of my series on the the importance of a Code of Conduct and anti-corruption compliance policies and procedures in your compliance program and how you should go about drafting or updating Code of Conduct and...

Hedge Funds and Material Nonpublic Information: The Role of Deception, Duty, Breach, Personal Benefit and Knowledge in Creating Liability

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

The last thing hedge funds need is another wake up call about the risks of liability for trading on the basis of material nonpublic information. But if they did, a July 17 article in the Wall Street Journal would provide it. According to the article,...

Is It Legal to Be High in Public?

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

The notable side effect of consuming marijuana is getting high (duh), and many Americans wonder whether it's illegal to simply be high in public.

Have Accelerators Reached Saturation Point?

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

A few weeks ago, I attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new MassChallenge accelerator space. There were hundreds of people there, including the founders of TechSandBox, an accelerator in Hopkinton, MA, and Smarter in the City, an “inner city”...

Federal Courts Make Conflicting Rulings on Premium Assistance for Federal Exchange Plan Participants

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

Does the Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorize the payment of premium and copayment subsidies, or “premium assistance subsidies,” to individuals enrolled in a federally established Exchange? On July 22, 2014, two federal courts issued conflicting...

Clash of the Circuits: Federal Exchange Subsidies at Risk?

By EsqSocial Corporation 25/07/14

These four words “established by the state,” at first blush do not appear obtuse or particularly vague. But these four words form the basis for the latest challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and have resulted in two courts issuing...

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