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Don’t Get “Crushed”: Three Ways to Avoid Being a Bully While Protecting Your Trademarks

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

Protecting a trademark can often create as many new problems for a brand owner as it solves, if not handled properly. Recently, King.com, owner of the popular game app Candy Crush Saga, received an avalanche of negative PR over the aggressive...

OPR Mulls Changes in CEQA Traffic Metrics

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

As previously discussed in this blog, last year’s passage of SB 743 added a requirement in Public Resources Code § 21099(b) that the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) develop new CEQA guidelines “for determining the significance of...

FDOT Receives Technical Proposals from Four Teams for I-4 Ultimate Project

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announced yesterday that it has received four Technical Proposals in response to its Request for Proposals for the I-4 Ultimate Project. On June 5, 2013, FDOT announced a shortlist of four proposers,...

President Signs Executive Order on Minimum Wage Increase

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

On Wednesday, February 12, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contract workers. The president issued the Executive Order, in part, based upon the Federal Property and Administrative...

Extension of Exemptions for Security-Based Swaps

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

On February 5, the SEC extended interim final rules that exempt security-based swaps that were security-based swap agreements prior to July 16, 2011, and are defined as “securities” under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act as of July 16, 2011,...

Elder Protections in the Affordable Care Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

Twenty-one employees of a Georgia nursing home specializing in caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease were recently arrested on abuse charges that included using bed sheets as restraints and failing to maintain proper hygiene. It turned out...

Background Checks: Not Over until It’s Over!

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

In all the hoopla over the victory of the employer in EEOC v. Freeman (USDC, MD, Case No. RWT 09-cv-2573) it may have escaped some people that on November 7, 2013 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) appealed its loss at the...

GO-Biz Finalizes Proposed California Competes Tax Credit Regulations

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (“GO-Biz”) releases final proposed regulations on the California Competes Tax Credit. On January 31, 2014, GO-Biz released final proposed regulations for the California Competes Credit...

Va. Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down by Fed. Judge

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

Virginia's ban on gay marriage was struck down by a federal judge late Thursday night. But the judge placed her own ruling on hold pending an appeal. U.S.

The Transformation of the Workplace Through Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/02/14

In This Report: - Explanation And Scope Of This Preliminary Littler Report - Introduction - Workplace LAW Challenges And Solutions - A. Human Displacement - B. Union And Non-Union Labor Relations - C. Anti-Discrimination...

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