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Minority Shareholder Rights in Virginia

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

In August 2012, Judge Jane Marum Roush, sitting by designation in the Circuit Court of Buckingham County, issued a comprehensive letter opinion in Colgate et al. v. The Disthene Group, Inc. The opinion reassessed a substantial portion of the body of...

Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Case Law Update: November 2013

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

I. FLORIDA STATE CASES – SARA WITMEYER & SASHA FUNK GRANAI - - Implied Warranties of Fitness and Merchantability: warranties apply to improvements that provide essential services to residential subdivision, including infrastructure, roadways,...

Ethics Guardians Are Falling Behind

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

In August, the New York State Bar Association issued an ethics opinion telling lawyers they should no longer use the “specialties” section on the professional networking site LinkedIn. The only thing is, LinkedIn.com had removed its “specialties”...

Senate Introduces Bill To Amend Endangered Species Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act (ESA)—entitled the Endangered Species Management Self-Determination Act (Bill)—has been introduced in the United States Senate. The Bill, authored by Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Dean...

SEC Gives Guidance On Venture Capital Exemption

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

The SEC Division of Investment Management has provided guidance regarding the application of the exemption from investment adviser registration available to an investment adviser that advises solely one or more “venture capital funds” as defined in...

Electric Reliability Project To Include Focus On Outages

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

Michigan's Institute for Energy Innovation has had an ongoing Electric Reliability Project since early this year. The overall focus is on enhancing distribution reliability and reducing the number and duration of electric outages....

Calif. Case Limits Health Care Data Breach Claims

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

The California Court of Appeal recently limited plaintiffs’ ability to state a claim under the California Medical Information Act (CMIA), Cal. Civ. Code §§ 56 et seq., and their ability to get statutory damages under the act. Consistent with prior...

Update – Administering Benefits in a Post-DOMA World

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

Here is a brief update to our September 24, 2013 alert, which addressed the administration of employee benefits as well as federal income taxes and FMLA leave following this summer’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor. In...

Liquidity Coverage Ratio Impact on Covered Bonds

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

On October 23, 2013, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “Agencies”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking addressing quantitative...

In re Eaton (Fed. Cir. 2013)

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/12/13

On November 22, the Federal Circuit reversed a determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the rejection of the claims 1, 8-11, and 14 of U.S. Application No. 11/145,716 as anticipated by DE Patent No. 10053155 A1 ("Jungkeit") and as...

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