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Wage Hour Claims and Casuto v. Town of Greenwich: The Department of Labor Investigation Is Not The End of The Story

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

Employers who have been through an investigation by the Connecticut Department of Labor Wage & Workplace Standards Division unfortunately have intimate knowledge of the potential burdens of defending against employee wage claims. To make things even...

Evaluating Environmental Risks in Real Estate Transactions

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

Evaluating environmental risks associated with real estate transactions is a standard, and often standardized, practice for sophisticated real estate practitioners. However, in light of several recent developments - the uptick in transactions from...

Milwaukee Officials Refuse To Provide Information On Red Arrow Park Shooting Investigation

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

As previously reported here, on April 30, 2014, a Milwaukee Police Department (“MPD”) officer shot and killed 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton at Red Arrow Park in downtown Milwaukee. On Thursday, May 22, 2014, Michael Tobin, the Executive Director of the...

Is J&J Baby Powder Carcinogenic?

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

The question about whether or not Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder contains carcinogens is reportedly about 30 years old. That is alleged in a plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over its Baby Powder claiming there were reports as early as...

First Circuit Affirms District Court’s Exclusion of Event Study as Unreliable Under Daubert

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

In Bricklayers & Trowel Trades Int’l Pension Fund v. Credit Suisse Sec. (USA) LLC, No. 12-1750, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8994 (1st Cir. May 14, 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s exclusion of an...

U.S. Supreme Court Relaxes Standard For Prevailing Parties To Recover Attorneys’ Fees In Patent Infringement Litigation

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

On April 29, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two decisions that make it easier for prevailing parties to recover their attorneys’ fees in patent infringement cases. In Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health & Fitness, Inc. and Highmark Inc. v....

Intel Files Conflict Minerals Report

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

The holy grail (at least so far) of conflict minerals precedents was filed with the SEC albeit perhaps too late for many issuers to wholesale change course. But still excellent for a final form check....

Use Compliance Training and Code of Conduct to Encourage “Ethical Emotion” in Your Culture

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

I just returned from the lovely city of Washington DC where I spent the last three days with many ethics and compliance professionals at Compliance Week 2014. This is my first time attending the conference, although The Network has been a sponsor...

Message To Companies from DOJ and SEC: Take FCPA Compliance Seriously

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

Federal regulators have been particularly aggressive in enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), making it crucial for companies to take anti-corruption training seriously. Beauty products giant Avon recently reached a $135 million...

U.S. District Judge in Florida Dismisses SEC Action Against Corporate Defendants and Holds that Five-Year Statute of Limitations Removed the Court’s Subject-Matter Jurisdiction

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/05/14

On May 12, Judge James Lawrence King of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed with prejudice the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) case against five defendants in an action alleging that the defendants...

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