The California Supreme Court has ruled that the former lead singer of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli, is entitled to half the value of a $3.75 million life insurance policy purchased with marital assets before a divorce.
SCOTUSblog is making the case for press access by emerging media in a letter appealing a decision that denied press credentials to the highly regarded blog.
In the run-up to the legalization of the online gambling market in the Netherlands, the Staatsloterij has announced that it aims to offer new types of games on the internet soon. This news appears from the new strategy for coming years, which has...
The tech gurus in Milan are very excited since next week-end there will be the Wired Next Fest which will cover some of the most relevant technology matters currently discussed. Interestingly some of such issues have been covered in our articles on...
Recently, CMS released the proposed fiscal year 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule for inpatient stays in long-term and general acute care hospitals. Included among the regular updates to Medicare payment policies and rates are...
The United States, Canada and the European Union have designated a number of additional officials and companies as the unrest continues in eastern Ukraine. The United States also imposed sanctions on the head of Russian energy giant Rosneft and...
In recent days, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has published several proposed rules in the Federal Register, which, if adopted, will bring welcome and much needed regulatory changes....
Patent claim drafting is a challenging exercise that requires balancing potential infringement of the claim against the prior art. A patent practitioner may easily draft a claim of very narrow scope, but if such claim has a low likelihood of being...
On May 12, 2014, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) lost its motion for leave to file a motion for reconsideration of a prior ruling, which barred the NCAA from arguing at trial that not paying student-athletes for their likenesses...
A Match Made in Heaven - U.S. shareholders of foreign corporations are generally not subject to U.S. federal income tax on the earnings of such corporations until those earnings are repatriated to the shareholders in the form of a dividend....
