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Greentarget’s “2014 State of Digital & Content Marketing Survey” Kicks Off — With Full Report to Follow in April

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

ALM Legal Intelligence and Zeughauser Group partner with Greentarget on project - Since publishing the inaugural In-House Counsel New Media Engagement Survey in 2010, and releasing updated versions in 2012 and 2013, the question is no longer, “Are...

Walmart Potentially Liable For Wage Violations As Joint Employer Of Subcontractors’ Employees

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

Finding that ample evidence existed that Walmart exercised control over the working conditions of the workers employed by Walmart’s warehouse subcontractors, a California federal district court in Carrillo v. Schneider Logistics Trans-Loading and...

Michael Jordan v. Jewel Food Stores: The Seventh Circuit Explores the Boundaries of Commercial Speech

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

When and how the First Amendment applies is normally a complicated question. In a case decided earlier this week, Michael Jordan v. Jewel Food Stores, Inc., No. 12-1992, the parties teamed up to present an issue on commercial speech for the Seventh...

Oklahoma Income Tax Reduction Ruled Unconstitutional

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

The Supreme Court of Oklahoma has ruled Oklahoma tax legislation enacted in 2013 reducing the top Oklahoma individual income tax rate from 5.25% to 5% in 2015, with further reduction to 4.85% possible in 2016, is unconstitutional and void. In...

Dispensing Justice on Dispensing Beverage Patents and Products

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

After initiating an action in the Southern District of Illinois against The Coca-Cola Company (“Coca-Cola”) for patent infringement of seven patents, Beverage Dispensing Solutions, LLC (“BDS”) stipulated to transfer of the case to the Northern...

E-Cigarettes Banned In Some California Workplaces

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

Electronic cigarettes are battery-operated devices that emit vaporized doses of nicotine (or non-nicotine) that is inhaled. The vapor produced by e-cigarettes is smokeless and does not contain the amount of harmful chemicals that regular cigarettes...

The Alberta Securities Commission Imposes Important New Obligations for Recipients of Production Demands

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has always had the power to compel Registrants, Reporting Issuers, and others to produce records in the course of an investigation. Section 93.4 of the Securities Act (Alberta) has also previously required that...

OSHA Issues New Rule for Food Safety Whistleblowers

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

Effective Thursday, February 13, 2014, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a final rule governing the agency's future handling of whistleblower complaints under Section 402 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act...

How Much Your Sexual Harassment Lawsuit is Worth: New York State Court

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

We all want a safe, healthy working environment. Unfortunately, that is often not the case and sexual harassment runs rampant throughout New York City workplaces. If you make the difficult decision to fight back, your New York sexual harassment...

Litigation Update - Rules of Civil Procedure Continue to Adapt to the Realities of Electronic Discovery

By EsqSocial Corporation 24/02/14

Businesses are increasingly leveraging technology and moving to more paperless environments. For this reason, modern business litigation almost always requires some discovery of electronically stored information (ESI). Depending on the nature of...

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