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St. Louis Commits to Transit - Oriented Development Projects

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Earlier this month, St. Louis Mayor, Francis Slay, announced that St. Louis’ Affordable Housing Commission would dedicate $1 million to fund transit oriented development (TOD) in St. Louis. In making this commitment, St. Louis joins a growing number...

Choosing Between Litigation And Arbitration – What’s At Stake?

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The costs of litigation have risen dramatically in the past 10 to 20 years. Many factors contribute to that rise, including expanded discovery processes, the proliferation of electronic data storage, and the costs associated with gathering and...

’Tis the Season To Review Holiday Pay Practices & Employee Requests for Time-Off

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

With Thanksgiving coinciding with Hanukkah this year and Christmas fast-approaching, employers should review carefully their obligations regarding requests for time-off and holiday pay practices. Specifically, the latter requests often trigger...

California Minimum Wage To Be Raised From $8 To $10

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The California minimum wage will increase in two separate $1 increments. The first increase will bump the rate from $8 to $9 in July 2014, and the second increase, to $10, will come in January 2016....

Country Singer Wayne Mills Shot, Killed by Bar Owner

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

"Outlaw country" singer Wayne Mills was killed in a bar shooting Saturday. Nashville police are still piecing together the details of the country star's untimely death, but Pit and Barrel bar owner Chris Ferrell insists he shot Mills in self-defense.

Chinese Labor Law in Reform: New Restrictions on Dispatched Worker Model

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Multinational companies’ Chinese subsidiaries, known as foreign invested entities or “FIEs,” have two basic options when hiring employees. They can either hire them directly (“Employment Model”), or they can “lease” them from temporary placement...

USCIS Policy Memorandum on Family-Based Automatic Conversion and Priority Date Retention

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

On November 21, 2013, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Policy Memorandum (Memorandum), providing guidance for properly assigning family-based priority dates in certain instances where a petitioner requests a priority date...

New ASTM Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments Includes Substantive Changes

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

On November 6, 2013, ASTM International (ASTM) published a new Standard Practice for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, known as ASTM E1527-13.1 The new ASTM standard includes a number of substantive revisions to the existing E1527-05 standard...

FTC Expands Scope of Hart-Scott-Rodino Reporting Rules for Pharmaceutical Patent Rights Transfers

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The Federal Trade Commission has broadened the rules dictating when pharmaceutical companies must report a transfer of exclusive patent rights to the U.S. Department of Justice and FTC for antitrust review and approval. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino...

Understanding the Plain View Doctrine

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The plain view doctrine is an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, which allows law enforcement to seize incriminating items that are in plain view....
By: Law Office of E. Thomas Dunn, Jr.

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