For those of you still easing into 2014, we thought that now would be a good time to help you plot out your regulatory and internal compliance schedules for the upcoming calendar year....
Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the media about electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes.” E-cigarettes are battery operated devices that are used to ingest nicotine by inhaling a vapor. (For more detail, the Connecticut Department of...
Employers seeking to employ foreign workers must often obtain a positive labour market opinion (LMO) from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) before a foreign worker will receive a work permit. If you are an employer relying on the...
The New South Wales Court of Appeal in Prince v Malouf [2014] NSWCA 12 has recently overturned a District Court award of damages. The two parties, Dr Prince and Dr Malouf, were ear, nose and throat surgeons who, in early 2006, both performed...
Last Thursday, the Senate Economics Reference Committee (SERC) conducted a hearing in relation to the Ticket Scalping in Australia inquiry in Sydney. The inquiry, launched with little fanfare in the lead up to Christmas last year, called for...
Commission Petitions Federal Circuit For Panel Rehearing And Rehearing En Banc In Suprema Case – On Friday, February 14, 2014, the Commission filed a Combined Petition for Panel Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc in Suprema v. International Trade...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, in which the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in response to a motion to dismiss, declined to adopt a presumption of prudence in favor of a plan fiduciary’s...
Today, we’re excited to welcome back to the blog Marina Modlin, former freelance attorney, founder of Modlin Legal Services, and author of The Independence Track. Marina wrote a moving post about hitting rock bottom as a young lawyer a few weeks ago....
RIPL Corp. v. Google Inc., 2013 WL 6632040 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 17, 2013). In this trademark infringement case, the defendant and plaintiff entered into a stipulated protective order which included a clawback provision designed to take effect when a...
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez—already charged with murder in Massachusetts and facing a Florida civil suit by another man who says Hernandez shot him—has been accused in two other slayings.
