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Hazards Abound for Companies Seeking to Accept Bitcoin

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

The Bitcoin “Cryptocurrency” has gained momentum in the market, and some businesses, including Overstock. com and TigerDirect.com, now accept bitcoins as payment. Many others are wondering if Bitcoin is a good fit for them—and they should factor...

USCIS Issues Policy Alert on Validity of Medical Examinations (Form I-693)

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

On Friday, May 30, 2014, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reversed a longstanding policy of extending the validity of the physician endorsement on the Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record (Form I-693)....

The Scope of Definiteness Required in Patent Claims after Nautilus v. Biosig

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

In yesterday's decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc. clarified the scope of definiteness required to fulfill the requirement that the patent claims particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject...

Combining Two Drugs Is Not Always Obvious

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Addressing the obviousness of combining two known hypertension medications, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a ruling of non-obviousness where the prior art...

Men at Work: California Public Works Projects and Prevailing Wage Laws

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

California’s prevailing wage law, set forth in the California Labor Code, provides that each worker employed by contractors or subcontractors on a public works project must be paid not less than the general prevailing wage rate......

50 For 50: Five Decades Of The Most Important Discrimination Law Developments - Number 22: Are English-Only Rules Discriminatory? The Rise Of Non-English Speakers In The Workplace

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

As of 2012, there were 38.3 million Americans who spoke Spanish as their primary language in the home. Many of those people are children or students and many also speak English fluently. But many also do not and when they go to work, they have two...

Damage Models Create Individualized Issues For Pre-Explosion Subclass Of BP Shareholders, But Present No Impediment For Post-Explosion Subclass

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

The Southern District of Texas recently denied certification of a subclass of BP shareholders who purchased shares prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and alleged that misstatements regarding safety improvements caused them to buy BP shares at...

Justice Scalia Says Tax Advisor Training Could Take Only Six Months

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

Justice Scalia, speaking at the William & Mary Law School 2014 commencement on the topic of the reform of legal education, said: “One can practice various aspects of law without knowing much about the whole field. I expect that someone could be...

Federal Court of Appeals Addresses Oft-Debated Definition of "Instrumentality" Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

On May 16, 2014, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was the first federal appellate court to weigh in on the controversial definition of "instrumentality" under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). In United States v. Esquenazi, the Eleventh...

Third District Applies Daubert Retroactively

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/06/14

Florida’s first appellate review under Daubert occurred in Perez v. Bell South Telecommunications, Inc., 39 Fla. L. Weekly D 685b (April 24, 2014). The Third District Court of Appeals became the first Florida appellate court to apply the Daubert...

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