Did embattled Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez make a sound strategic judgment in walking out of his grievance arbitration hearing yesterday concerning his 211-game, PED-related suspension after the arbitrator denied his request to have MLB...
Annie Clark and her husband, Jim, own a mom-and-pop shop called Black Bear Micro Roastery in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire. Black Bear introduced its Charbucks blend in 1997, which is a dark roast coffee. In 2001, Black Bear was sued in federal...
One might expect plaintiffs to always name the primary violator in a securities fraud suit. However, what if suing the primary violator is not an option because the primary violator is in bankruptcy or the subject of a court ordered stay? Can there...
The below video has actually been out for over a year now, but it recently experienced a resurgence through social media–particularly Facebook. As you will see from watching the video, it documents through time lapse photography the “evolution” that...
Hot on the heels of the CRA’s recent publication of a “fact sheet” on its views on the tax treatment of Bitcoin currency (which has been in the news recently), the CRA has published two technical interpretations on the tax treatment of...
Yesterday, the Division of Oil, Gas, & Geothermal Resources ("DOGGR") released a Notice to Operators (the "Notice"), clarifying that some notification aspects of SB 4 will require compliance as early as the beginning of December 2013. SB 4 requires...
A federal jury in California awarded Apple $290 million on Thursday in a damages retrial for Samsung's infringement of five patents, bringing Apple’s total award in the case to $930 million.
Last week, the New York City Bar Association announced some new pilot programs: a New Lawyer Institute, which would offer a yearlong comprehensive CLE curriculum for 2014 law grads, and a law firm incubator that would “enable new lawyers to address the unmet…
Three college students in California have been charged with hate crime and battery offenses in the alleged bullying of a roommate that began after an orientation that included cultural sensitivity training.
