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New Pay Equity Laws in New York and New Jersey (Again) (Update: New Jersey Law Signed Into Law)

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Seyfarth Synopsis: This week, New York state expanded a state Equal Pay Act, making it illegal to pay someone less based on characteristics including race, religion, disability or gender identity, and also other protected characteristics. New York...

Voting Rights Versus Voting Power - A Distinction With A Difference?

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Yesterday's post raised the question whether California Corporations Code Section 400(a) precludes tenured voting.  That statute requires that all shares of any one class have the "same voting, conversion and redemption rights . . . unless the class...

Continued DOJ Scrutiny for Telemedicine Physicians

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Since the Department of Justice filed charges in April 2019 against 24 telemedicine and durable medical equipment (“DME”) company executives and physicians for their alleged participation in a $1.2 billion healthcare fraud scheme, telemedicine...

Patent Owner in Standard-Essential Patent Pool Has Standing to Appeal

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”) petitioned for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 8,917,772 (“the ‘772 Patent”), which is owned by Infobridge and is directed to encoding and decoding video data. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board...

Financial Daily Dose 8.2.2019 | Top Story: White House Threatens More Tariffs on China

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Apparently hoping to urge China off of its new go-slow tactic, the White House is applying its maximum pressure campaign again, announcing yesterday that the US will “impose a 10 percent tariff on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese imports...

Global Voices: KYC Programmes - Aren't They All Done and Dusted?

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Recent conversations with firms have left me in a curious state of mind, I had thought all financial services firms had wrapped their Know Your Customer (KYC) programs and put them to bed?…. It turns out I was wrong!...

New Colorado Employment Laws from 2019 Legislative Session

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

Led by Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, the Colorado General Assembly passed multiple important employment-related bills during its 2019 legislative session.  Colorado’s new Democratic Governor, Jared Polis, recently signed all the...

Regulation of Student Loan Servicers - A Review of 2019 Legislation Enacted in Colorado, Maine, Maryland, and Nevada

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

The May 2019 issue of Insights provided high-level background information about the recent trend of state legislation targeting student loan servicers. In the June 2019 issue of Insights, we took a deeper dive into New York's Student Loan Servicers...

Final EU Guidelines on EU Credit Rating Agency Disclosure Obligations and Advice on Sustainable Finance in the Credit Rating Market

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

The European Securities and Markets Authority has published two documents relating to sustainable finance in the credit rating sector. The first document is technical advice for the European Commission, responding to the Commission's mandate in its...

Afternoon Briefs: Rappers awarded $2.8M over Katy Perry song; lawyer killed outside courthouse by pickup truck

By EsqSocial Corporation 02/08/19

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