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The Supreme Court of Canada begins three days of hearings today into the federal government’s proposed amendments to the election and term limits of Senators. The federal government has, since it was first elected, attempted on numerous occasions to...

Before turning back to SEC CustodyFest, volumes 2 and 3, I’d like to focus for a bit on another aspect of the SEC’s October administrative case against GW & Wade. In addition to the custody rule issues, the SEC found that the firm overcharged some of...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it has finalized amendments to the premerger notification rules (HSR Rules) that provide a framework for determining when a transaction involving the transfer of rights to a pharmaceutical...

The Sixth District Court of Appeal, in a published decision filed September 30, 2013, reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant City of San Jose in an action challenging its “Envision San Jose” comprehensive general plan update....

In this presentation: - United States v. Windsor - IRS Revenue Ruling 2013-17 - IRS FAQs - IRS Notice 2013-61 - Correction of employment tax overpayments for health and other fringe benefits - IRS FAQs - DOL Technical Release...

An Ohio jury won't have much of a defense perspective to rely on as members decide whether a 66-year-old Harvard Law School graduate committed crimes as the alleged mastermind of a claimed $100 million fraud operated under the guise of a military veterans charity.

Employers operating in multiple states should be aware that several states are raising their minimum hourly wage in 2014. While for now the federal minimum wage will remain unchanged at $7.25 (for non-tipped employees), many states have announced...

Economists Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead in October published Tax Reform and Environmental Policy: Options for Recycling Revenue from a Tax on Carbon Dioxide on behalf of Resources for the Future. The paper is available below. The paper...

With the bankruptcy of dozens of traditional defendants in asbestos litigation, plaintiffs' attorneys have been creative in pursuing claims in previously untapped areas. One such area is alleged oilfield worker exposure via asbestos-containing...

In Bayens v Kinross Gold Corp, released November 5, 2013, Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice denied the plaintiffs in a putative class action leave to advance a statutory claim for securities market misrepresentation under...

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