Justice Sonia Sotomayor today disagreed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to deny cert in the case of an Alabama defendant who was sentenced to death by a judge despite a jury’s contrary recommendation.
In This Presentation: *What are e-cigarettes? • Battery powered tube like device, typically built to look like a cigarette • Release water vapor laced with "e juice" from container • "e juice" typically includes propylene glycol, vegetable...
On November 5, the FHFA announced that it had directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to implement new restrictions on lender-placed insurance practices. In March, the FHFA sought comments on certain potential lender-placed insurance restrictions,...
On October 23, 2013, the SEC approved proposed rules enacting the crowdfunding exemption (Section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933) created by Congress in Title III of the JOBS Act, permitting non-public companies to offer and sell limited...
Employers may have a defense to defamation claims if they include hyperlinks to authoritative sources in their social media activities, e.g., blogging, Facebook posts or "tweeting", according to a New York federal court in Adelson v. Harris, 2013...
Contrary to what parents always tell their kids, when it comes to the authority of a Chief Compliance Officer, appearance is everything. This may be another in the long line of profound grasps of the obvious, but if a Chief Compliance Officer is a...
On November 5, HUD released a Conciliation Agreement with a lender alleged to have discriminated against African-American and Hispanic borrowers seeking mortgage loans. In an administrative complaint filed following a review of the lender’s internal...
In This Issue: - Judgments - Legislation - Reports - Excerpt from Reports: Australia. Private Health Insurance Administration Council - 13 November 2013 - Industry consultation – Second round risk management for private health insurers....
At long last, the United States Supreme Court is going to address the viability and/or prerequisites of the fraud-on-the-market presumption of reliance established by the Court in 1988 in Basic v. Levinson. Securities litigators, on both sides of...
About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Eli Lilly and Company et al. v. Watson Laboratories Inc et al. 3:13-cv-00637; filed November 14, 2013 in the District Court of Nevada - •...
