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The State of Domain Names

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

The World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) has released its 2016 Uniform Dispute Resolution Proceedings (UDRP) statistics. The overall number of new cases increased by 10 percent over the previous year. WIPO indicates that this surge of new cases...

The Graber Opinion is Confirmed as an Outlier in Matters Involving Texas Appraisals

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

With the continued onslaught of hail and other weather related litigation in Texas, insurance carriers often elect to resolve claims through the appraisal process outlined in the policy. Insurance carriers historically demanded appraisal under the...

EU Regulation on Penalties for Settlement Fails Published

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

A Commission Delegated Regulation on the parameters for the calculation of cash penalties for settlement fails and the operations of CSDs in host Member States was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Delegated Regulation will...

How much evidence can you get from wearable devices, and is it reliable?

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

Wearable technology

District Court Upholds Bankruptcy Court’s Ruling on Rejection of Gathering Agreements

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

On March 10, 2017, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) affirmed on appeal a bankruptcy court’s prior decision in In re Sabine Oil & Gas Corp. that permitted a debtor to reject a midstream gathering...

CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – March, 2017 #3

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

Dear Legal Mailbag: It seems that we cannot turn on the television these days without hearing the ongoing debate about travel bans, immigration reform and the presence of undocumented foreign nationals in this country. But I must say that I was...

EPA to Reconsider Previous Determination on Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for Light-Duty Cars and Trucks

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

On March 15, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation will jointly reconsider EPA’s January 12, 2017 determination not to change greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards...

THE LATEST: Further Efforts to Broaden the Scope and Impact for CFIUS Reviews of Foreign Acquisitions of US Businesses

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

We reported earlier on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and its legal and practical authority to review M&A transactions for possible risks to US national security posed by foreign ownership of a US business. Sens....

PTAB Life Sciences Report -- March 2017 Part III

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents....
By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

CFPB Enters Consent Order with Mortgage Lender Over Alleged HMDA Violations

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/03/17

On March 15, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) entered into a consent order with national nonbank mortgage lender that requires the lender to pay a $1.75 million civil monetary penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Home...

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