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CMS Expands Hardship Exemption for Stage 2 Meaningful Use

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner announced on March 11, 2014, an expansion of the hardship exemption available to eligible providers who were unable to attest to being meaningful users under the Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule in 2013. In addition to...

Antitrust Claims Against SESAC Copyright Licenses Permitted To Proceed

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

Performing rights organizations (PROs) are entities that issue licenses to, and collect royalties from, television stations and other parties who wish to perform or dylanbroadcast copyrighted musical compositions. There are three PROs in the United...

Infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau gets 10 years in criminal contempt case over diet-book claims

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

Showing no sympathy for the current situation of a television infomercial pitchman said to have earned—and lost—some $37 million as a result of diet-book sales and other ventures, a federal judge in Chicago on Monday blasted Kevin Trudeau and sentenced him to 10 years in prison for criminal conte

Affairs of State: When States Are Creditors: Why § 525 Matters and Should Be Expanded

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

One of the pillars of a debtor’s fresh start is the anti-discrimination provisions of § 525 of the Bankruptcy Code, which codifies the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Perez v. Campbell. The Court held that two state statutes that required...

ITC Section 337 Update – March 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

Jury Sets FRAND Rate For And ITC Ends Investigation Into LSI/Agere Wi-Fi Patents – On February 26, 2014, a Northern District of California federal jury reached a Verdict in Realtek Semiconductor v. LSI and Agere, Case No. C-12-03451 before...

And So it Begins . . .

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

This past year I wrote about a case that caused an uproar in the homebuilding industry - Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Brookfield Crystal Cove LLC, 219 Cal.App.4th 98 (August 28, 2013) – in which the California Court of Appeals for the Fourth...

Delaware Upholds Business Judgment Review for Controlling Stockholder Mergers If Minority Is Protected

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

On Friday, March 14th, the Delaware Supreme Court held that controlling stockholder mergers should be subject to deferential business judgment review, rather than the more stringent entire fairness standard, where minority shareholders are adequately...

Kanye West Gets Probation for Paparazzo Attack

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

A Los Angeles judge sentenced Kanye West to two years of probation for a misdemeanor battery attack on a paparazzo. The scuffle occurred in 2013 at Los Angeles International Airport after Daniel Ramos, the paparazzo, started engaging the rapper.

Legislative Trial Balloon for Puerto Rico Public Corporation Insolvency Process Attracts Bondholder Attention

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

Last Tuesday, Puerto Rico sold its much ballyhooed $3.5 billion in non-investment grade general obligation bonds. Two days later, two legislators in Puerto Rico’s Senate filed a bill which, if enacted, would permit insolvency filings by Puerto...

EU imposes sanctions on 21 politicians and military officers from Russia and Crimea

By EsqSocial Corporation 18/03/14

In response to the Crimea crisis, the EU Council decided to impose sanctions against individuals in Russia and the Crimea in the form of an asset freeze targeting persons responsible for actions which threaten the “territorial integrity, sovereignty...

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