Kris was forced to endure the unthinkable: her daughter had just become the victim of a sexual assault. In the weeks that followed, Kris alerted her employer of the assault and the care her daughter would require in the time ahead....
On November 6, the OCC issued two bulletins to announce an addition and revisions to the Comptroller’s Handbook. The OCC also rescinded certain Handbook provisions. Bulletin OCC 2013-30 adds to the Handbook the “Qualified Thrift Lender” (QTL)...
On September 13th the IRS issued a new revenue procedure that significantly changes equitable innocent spouse relief. I have excerpted part of the article which discusses the significant changes. Originally Published in Texas Bar...
As employers who sponsor cafeteria plans know, flexible spending accounts (FSAs) under those plans have had a “use it or lose it” rule. Under that rule, employees who participate in the spending accounts must make elections at the beginning of the...
The Firearm Concealed Carry Act, Public Act 98-0063, which became effective July 9, 2013, contains a new reporting requirement for school principals of which all school districts and private schools should be aware. Under the new “School...
Nine lawsuits pending in federal courts throughout the country against Pfizer, Inc. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals over birth defects caused by the anti-depressant drug Effexor have been consolidated as part of a multi-district litigation. The cases have...
A New York judge who has served on the state's probate court for more than a decade should be removed because she failed to reveal conflicts and recuse herself on multiple occasions, a disciplinary panel has recommended.
In the landmark decision Alexandros T [2013] UKSC 70, the Supreme Court has held that, where parties have agreed that disputes between them will be resolved exclusively by the English courts, a party can seek damages for breach of that agreement and...
Although many may scoff, compulsive shopping, or shopaholicism, is a genuine addiction, just like alcoholism or drug addiction. And like these conditions, it can cost you emotionally, mentally and financially....
In LifeScan Scotland, Ltd. V. Shasta Technologies, LLC, the Federal Circuit found that LifeScan’s distribution of its One-Touch Ultra glucose meters exhausted its patent rights such that it could not prevent Shasta from selling disposable test strips...
