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Staged Car-Crash Scam Targeted Elderly: LAPD

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

A Los Angeles man is accused of staging phony car accidents in order to dupe at least 10 elderly drivers into paying him. Investigators believe there may be more victims.

Police Concern About Public Safety Sufficient To Justify Shutdown Of Speech At School

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

In a lawsuit arising out of a well-publicized incident in West Michigan, Agema v. City of Allegan involved a lawsuit by former Michigan State Representative David Agema and others against the City of Allegan and others alleging that their...

Battles Over Demand Letters: Lessons From 'The F Word'

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When a big corporation sends you a cease-and-desist letter, make … ale? This is what Jeff Britton, owner of Exit 6 Pub and Brewery in Cottleville, Mo., chose to do after he received a cease-and-desist...

Proposed Regulations Expand the Definition of Excepted Benefits

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

Recently issued proposed regulations would expand the categories of excepted benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and the Public Health Service Act. In general, excepted...

Clothes or Equipment

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

The Fair Labor Standards Act permits employers and unions to agree to exclude from compensable time, the time spent washing and changing clothes. Does this include agreeing about putting on and taking off “protective clothing?” The U.S. Supreme Court...

Federal Circuit's Last Word on Attorney Fees - Actual Knowledge of Baseless Claim Not Required - Kilopass Tech., Inc. v. Sidenese Corp.

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

Addressing the proof required to show a bad faith assertion of a baseless claim to establish an exceptional patent case for attorneys’ fees. the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court’s decision denying an...

Five Senators Slam OFR Asset Management and Financial Stability Report

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

In a stinging letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, five Senators criticized the study by the Office of Financial Research (OFR), Asset Management and Financial Stability, alleging that the study contained “troubling errors” that call into...

An Accused Device Is “Modified” by the Installation of Software - Nazomi Commc’ns., Inc. v. Nokia Corp.

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

Revisiting the wording of claims that recite a combination of hardware and software, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a holding of non-infringement. Nazomi Commc’ns., Inc. v. Nokia Corp., Case No. 13-1165 (Fed. Cir., Jan. 10,...

Congress Taking Action to Protect Data Security

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

In the wake of major customer data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have quickly swung into action, scheduling a slew of hearings and introducing legislation designed to address the issue of data security to better...

Specialized Forms of Bankruptcy in Georgia

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/01/14

The three most common types of bankruptcy — Chapter 7, Chapter 13 and Chapter 11 — account for nearly all business and personal bankruptcy filings in Georgia and the rest of the United States. There are also several other types of bankruptcy...

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