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Second Circuit Overturns District Court’s Rejection of SEC-Citigroup Fraud Settlement

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

In a closely-watched decision involving judicial review of agency settlements, the Unites States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated United States District Court Judge Jed Rakoff’s 2011 order rejecting a proposed $285 million settlement...

SawStop Stopped: Judge Dismisses Antitrust Lawsuit Against Table Saw Industry

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

On June 27, 2014, Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia dismissed the complaint filed against the power tool industry by SawStop, LLC. We previously wrote about this lawsuit and the need for companies and trade associations to...

Supreme Court’s Halliburton Decision Opens New Line of Defense

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

In Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc., a rebuttable presumption must yield to the evidence at class certification. On June 23, 2014, the United States Supreme Court sustained the “fraud-on-the-market” doctrine that has long aided the...

New York's Highest Court Holds that Zoning Laws of New York Towns Banning Fracking Are Enforceable — A Brief Analysis of the Oral Arguments and the Court's Opinion

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

A non-profit, Food & Water Watch, reports that 421 measures against fracking have been passed by state and local governments and that communities across the nation are lobbying their local and state elected officials because they believe fracking...

Inventor Testimony Irrelevant

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

In International Business Machines Corporation v.Intellectual Ventures II LLC, IPR2014-00180, Paper 22, (July 3, 2014), the Board denied petitioner’s request to file a transcript of the inventor’s testimony as supplemental information. The Board was...

Approved H-1B Visa Holders Can Start Applying For Passport Visas

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

Beneficiaries of approved H-1B petitions with an October 1, 2014 start date may now begin filing their visa applications at U.S. consular posts. Posts are authorized to accept H visa petitions and issue visas to qualified applicants up to 90 days in...

And That’s All She Wrote (Why I write)

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

She gazed thoughtfully out the window. “That’s the problem. I don’t know,” she said. “So I guess I’ll have to keep blogging about employment law topics, with special emphasis on the Americans with Disabilities Act, sexual harassment, and celebrity...

Ex-client says law firm filed suit in wrong state, causing loss of $161M case

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

A former client has filed suit in Dallas against two Texas law firms and three attorneys, contending that earlier business litigation filed in the wrong state resulted in the loss of the $161 million underlying case. Target Strike Inc.

Your Electronic Communications to Canada May Now Be Illegal

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) took effect July 1. The act bans commercial electronic messages (CEMs) sent to parties in Canada without consent and the installation of certain functions on computers in Canada without the knowledge and consent...

OSPAR Commission's Harmonized Offshore Chemical Notification Format

By EsqSocial Corporation 08/07/14

The OSPAR Commission's (OSPAR) Harmonized Offshore Chemical Notification Format (HOCNF) is of paramount importance for a wide range of personnel, including chemical manufacturers and product manufacturers whose products are used on an offshore oil...

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