Mike McQueary was living his dream. A Pennsylvania State College kid who quarterbacked the Penn State University Nittany Lions, McQuery had climbed the ranks from Coach Joe Paterno's graduate assistant to Penn State's recruiting coordinator. In 2011,...
The First Circuit ruled last week that an earlier-filed False Claims Act complaint will preclude a later-filed complaint if it arises out of the same underlying facts, even if the allegations are not identical. The case concerns claims by two...
Yet another federal court judge, the Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. of the Eastern District of Missouri, recently ruled, in Whittaker v. America’s Car-Mart, Inc., that an employee’s severe obesity could constitute a “disability” under the...
On April 22, 2014, a Dallas County, Texas jury awarded a family $2.9 million dollars for personal injury and property damages arising out of their suit against Aruba Petroleum, Inc. The jury’s verdict includes damage awards of $2.25 million for past...
The White House is urging colleges and universities to take a more proactive approach to protecting students from sexual assault and recently announced new actions and guidelines in the first report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students...
Yesterday, May 7th, a number of bills were scheduled for mark up by the House Financial Services Committee, which address certain issues arising from the JOBS Act, as well as a number of issues arising in the aftermath of the Dodd-Frank Act....
A decision was recently made in the 2176693 Ontario Ltd. v. Cora Franchise Group case that reinforces that franchisee rights under Ontario’s Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000 (the AWA) cannot be readily released or waived by...
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued Notice 2014-21 to provide guidance for the tax treatment of virtual currency, such as Bitcoin. In the Notice, the IRS describes how existing general tax principles apply to transactions using virtual...
Yesterday the Spanish Official National Gazette published a new regulation developing the Spanish AML legislation (Royal Decree 304/2014, of 5 May 2014, approving the regulation developing Law 10/2010, of 28 April 2010, on prevention of money...
