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New Laws Bring California into Alignment with U.S.

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Starting in 2012, a variety of new laws passed that directly affect California businesses. There were new filing requirements for exempt securities offerings involving real estate, changes to the rights of dissenting shareholders in reorganization...

Health Care Reform Expands Physicians’ Liability

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The Patient Protection and the Affordable Health Care Act (“ACA”) is designed to reduce the cost of health care and to improve quality of care. To achieve these goals, the ACA relies, in part, on Accountable Care Organizations (“ACO’s”) in which...

Futures Industry Releases Insurance Study

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

On November 15, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, Futures Industry Association, Institute for Financial Markets, and National Futures Association released a study on the economic feasibility of adopting an insurance regime for the United States...

Are You Leaving Some Of Your Most Important Assets Unprotected? – Trade Secrets

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Trade secrets can be some of the most valuable assets a company has and it is important put procedures in place to safeguard this information. The Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adhered to by a majority of states, defines trade secrets as information...

Activists Increasingly Seek a “Second Bite at the Apple”

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

In recent proxy seasons we have noticed an increase in the frequency of “second bite” proxy contests. These situations can take various forms, including (i) a second proxy contest by an activist that reached a settlement with the company in a prior...

Soliciting a Prostitute Is Soliciting a Problem

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

This summer, police conducted separate sting operations in three northwest Ohio hotels to catch suspects soliciting prostitutes. All told, the police arrested 21 people who were charged with solicitation....

Delaware Reigns in Shareholder Attacks on Weak Fairness Opinions

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Financial advisors should remain keenly aware that, in recent years, plaintiffs and courts have been more carefully scrutinizing fairness opinions rendered in the context of public M&A transactions. Post-Great Recession, the trend in fairness...

Third Circuit Clarifies Federal Court Jurisdiction Surrounding Remand to State Court - Agostini v. Piper Aircraft Corp., No. 12-2098, --- F.3d --- (3d Cir. Sept. 5, 2013)

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The Third Circuit recently clarified the limits of its own jurisdiction, and that of the district court, in connection with orders remanding cases to state court. The court held a firm line on the reviewability of such orders, ruling that just as it...

Recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decision Brings Certainty To Title Companies And Mortgage Lenders

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s decision, coupled with the Homeowner Assistance Settlement Act, is welcome news to the title industry and mortgage lenders throughout Pennsylvania. On September 25, 2013, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its...

California Mandates More Transparency: Time to Update Your Privacy Policy

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

California has long been the national leader in addressing online and mobile privacy issues. Influenced by the inclusion of the right of privacy as an inalienable right of its citizens guaranteed by the State Constitution, California enacted the...

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