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SCOTUS considers constitutionality of home search when suspect objects and girlfriend later consents

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

The U.S. Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether police had the right to search a home after arresting a robbery suspect and then getting consent from his live-in girlfriend.

CMS Issues Guidance On Medicare Coverage of Items and Services Furnished to Beneficiaries in Custody Under a Penal Authority

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

In October 2013, CMS issued a Fact Sheet outlining its policy regarding beneficiaries who are incarcerated or in custody. Pursuant to 42 C.F.R. §§ 411.4, 411.6 and 411.8, where a beneficiary is in custody on the date items or services are provided,...

A Peek Inside The New Data Privacy Lawsuit Playbook

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

When a blogger revealed that Facebook tracked users even after they had logged off from Facebook’s service, the company thanked him and promised an immediate fix. But plaintiffs’ attorneys socked the company with a class action seeking $15 billion in...

Immigration Fraud Whistleblower Likely to receive a $5M Bounty from Infosys’s $34M False Claims Act Settlement: Is Your Business Immigration Program Prepared for a Similar Whistleblower Attack?

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

On October 30, 2013, Infosys Limited (“Infosys”), an Indian IT company, signed a settlement agreement with the United States in the Eastern District of Texas to resolve allegations that Infosys knowingly presented to employees of the United States...

Lawyer charged with using attorney credential in attempt to deliver drug to courthouse lockup

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

A Massachusetts lawyer has been criminally charged, accused of using his attorney credential to gain access to the Chelsea District Courthouse lockup without a search in order to attempt to deliver a prescription drug to a woman being held in the building's lockup. Michael R.

Potential Defendants in a Malicious Prosecution Case

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

Malicious prosecution actions in California are complex. Filing and defending such actions require the handling attorney to have a deep understanding of the interplay of anti-SLAPP law, SLAPP-back actions and malicious prosecution actions....

Codes of Ethics: SEC Requirements

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

Your good client Socrates is on the line. Socrates — who gave up a promising career in philosophy to take up professional soccer — has an ethics question for you. No, he is not asking you to explain Stoicism, Epicureanism or even Hedonism. He instead...

Whitey Bulger Gets 2 Life Sentences for Murder

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

Notorious crime boss Whitey Bulger was sentenced to two life sentences plus five years on Thursday as punishment for his murder and racketeering convictions. Jurors in August convicted 84-year-old James "Whitey" Bulger for participating in 11 killings in the 1970s and 80s.

Is Family Court Biased Toward the Mother?

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

In a divorce proceeding, family court always awards the mother a lot more time with the kids and makes the father pay a lot more support. This is one of the most persistent myths about divorce, and it often distorts the expectations of both parents...

More Protections for Pregnant Workers on the Horizon in New Jersey

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

The New Jersey Senate committee recently advanced S-2995, the Pregnant Women’s Fairness Act, a bill sponsored by Senator Loretta Weinberg, which would prohibit workplace discrimination against pregnant women. Specifically, the bill would add...

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