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CFPB Releases Fair Lending Report

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

The CFPB released its Fair Lending Report to Congress, which provides an update on the CFPB’s efforts with respect to its fair lending mandate. Section 1013 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the CFPB’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity...

“Natural” Clones Are Ineligible for Patent Protection

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

Last week, in In re Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), the Federal Circuit affirmed the rejection by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of product claims covering cloned mammals. This case relates to Dolly, commonly known as the...

TTB Changes Course on Oregon's Wine Growler Law

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

On April 25, 2014, the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB), the federal agency that regulates and taxes alcohol producers, suspended a March 2014 wine growler ruling that would have unnecessarily required wineries and retailers to register as...

Some Injuries Do Not Show Up Immediately After an Accident

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

Car accidents happen all too often in Southern California. If you were a driver or a passenger in a motor vehicle accident, you should report the incident to your insurance company as soon as possible (and read these tips on what to do after you have...

Sheer Yoga Pants And Over-Stretched Allegations: Court Refuses To Stretch Allegations Of Corporate Mismanagement Into Federal Securities Fraud

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

A lack of sweaty models trying on yoga pants may be problematic, but does it give rise to securities fraud? Not in the Southern District of New York. In In re lululemon Securities Litigation, decided on April 18, 2014, Judge Katherine B. Forrest...

South Carolina Legislative Update

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

Narrow medical marijuana approval possible in SC, H. 4803/S. 1035 - While a broad medical marijuana bill withered and died in the state legislature this session, bills allowing a more specific use of a medical marijuana extract to treat forms of...

ML Strategies FY 2015 Massachusetts Budget Update: The House Budget

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

Earlier this year, ML Strategies offered an overview of the Governor’s FY 2015 budget proposal. Now that the House of Representatives has passed its version of the FY 2015 spending plan, we provide an update on the budget process and an overview of...

Advertising Law - May 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

W3C Reaches Milestone: “Do Not Track” Specification Set - The road to establish an industry standard for Do Not Track has been long and winding. Last year, efforts at consensus stalled, grinding the work of the World Wide Web Consortium’s...

Lawyer resigns post as school board president after calling parent a ‘chubby wubby’

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

An attorney who called a parent a "chubby wubby" during a break in an upstate New York school board meeting last month has resigned from his post as board president.

CMS Final Rule Eliminates Outdated, Unnecessary Regulations

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/05/14

On May 7, 2014, CMS issued CMS-3267-F, which finalizes reforms to various regulatory provisions that CMS identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome. CMS estimates that these changes will save affected entities approximately $660...

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