Running late for work one day, Tina Keller asked her boyfriend to fill out a jury summons form. Bad idea. Drayke Jacobs-Van-Tol responded to questions such as "How many children do you have" with smart-aleck answers, including "none survived the abortions" and "The NSA knows everything.
In line with recent efforts in the courts to define the scope of power of the arbitral forum, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently took on the issue of whether to modify the standard it applies to determine whether to defer to an...
In August 2013, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules published proposed amendments to the Fed. R. Civ. P. which address the challenges of managing the scope of discovery in the digital age and the attendant consequences for a party’s failure to meet...
Many U.S.-based employers perform pre-employment, post-accident, or random drug testing, and with some exceptions, are generally permitted wide latitude in deciding when to conduct such tests. The U.S. attitude toward drug testing does not...
Recent developments in the bankruptcy arena have placed a greater burden on claimants. Creditors are now required to make additional disclosures in their proof of claim forms, and courts are under no obligation to recognize late-filed claims....
Background - The NSW Government commenced its reform of the process of approving new coal seam gas (CSG) projects in October 2013 by establishing CSG exclusion zones in existing residential zones and in the North West and South West growth centres...
The impact of the new post-grant review provisions of the America Invents Act (“AIA”) are beginning to be felt. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently issued an opinion invalidating key claims of a patent in an AIA proceeding,...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO) has issued CFTC Letter No. 14-15, which provides temporary no-action relief for (i) multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) overseen by regulators in the European Union from...
Of the three most common chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, Chapter 7 offers an insolvent individual the freshest of starts; yet it is not without its pitfalls. Under Chapter 7 a debtor is not permitted to pay his attorney in installment payments, as a...
The Treasury Department and the IRS last week issued long-awaited final rules implementing the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility (a/k/a “pay-or-play”) rules. Originally slated to take effect beginning January 1, 2014, enforcement...
