The SEC won a significant courtroom verdict Monday when a jury in New York returned a verdict in favor of the agency in the complex, high profile trading action brought almost four years ago against Samuel Wyly and the estate of his late brother...
General Mills Inc. has recently reversed its controversial new online legal policy that had required certain consumers to agree to forego their rights to filing lawsuits against the company if they communicated with GM via its social media sites or...
On May 7, the CFPB issued a proposed rule that would provide financial institutions an alternative method for delivering annual privacy notices. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and Regulation P require financial institutions to, among other things,...
Generally, a 90-day deadline applies to filing a Motion to Reopen Removal Proceedings after a respondent has been ordered removed. One of the exceptions to this rule allows for the filing of an untimely Motion to Reopen if it is filed jointly by the...
California has cut so much money from the courts budget that some people may be discouraged from using the system, according to the state’s chief justice.
On May 2, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance which creates a special enrollment opportunity in states with a federally-facilitated health insurance Marketplace (Marketplace) for individuals who are eligible for...
New Law School Course to Discuss Concussion Cases - Concussions and the risks of sports-related traumatic brain injuries have been prominent in the news over the last couple of years. For example, approximately 5,000 retired football players sued...
“Less is more” may be true in architecture, but in merger clearance law, “less” is still enough to trigger antitrust investigations and litigation and rescission of the whole transaction. By “less,” we mean less than the Hart-Scott-Rodino $75.9...
In January, a U.S. District Court judge for the District of Idaho ordered St. Luke’s Health System Ltd. (St. Luke’s) to unwind a recent acquisition of a physician group because the deal violated federal and state antitrust laws. St. Luke’s claimed...
William F. Ruprecht, et al., and Sotheby’s, which, in essence, recognized that a board of directors could adopt a shareholder rights plan as a reasonable response to a threat posed by an activist shareholder....
