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Addressing Zika’s Continued Threat to the Workplace

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

The growing prevalence of the Zika virus in the United States has already presented a number of hurdles for employers striving to create a safe and healthy workplace environment for their employees. These concerns are more immediate than ever. The...

China Amends Its Foreign-Investment Laws, Officially Reforming Its More Than Three-Decade-Old Foreign-Investment Approval Regime

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

On September 3, 2016, the Twelfth National People’s Congress Standing Committee passed amendments to the current four main foreign-investment laws in China: Law of the People's Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Equity Joint Venture Enterprises;...

Small Businesses Are Living Month-to-Month, Barely Saving Money

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

If you're struggling to save money and survive, you are not alone. Many of the country's small businesses are essentially living month-to-month. A new study from the JPMorgan Chase Institute showed that the average small business has just 27 days worth of cash reserves.

Lenders Take Note: U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Right to Sue Under Federal Fair Housing Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

The federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) outlaws discrimination in lending based not only on race, color and national origin, but also religion, sex, disability and familial status. Across the country, courts are grappling with the scope of the right to...

DC Circuit Denies Sierra Club Appeal of FERC Authorization of Two LNG Facilities

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

Since 2012, the major opponent of new large-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects has been the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club has adopted a two-pronged approach in its opposition to LNG exports projects, opposing both authorizations...

Comity Over Competition in Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

Forced to choose between the competing concerns of international comity and United States antitrust law in In re: Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, a unanimous panel of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided this week in favor of the...

Interim Regulations Issued on Investigations of Evasion of Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

The anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) laws provide companies that manufacture products in the United States with a remedy for the injury caused by imports of products that are dumped (i.e., sold at unfairly low prices) and subsidized....

Notice Requirements for Social Welfare Organizations

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) exempts from the federal income tax certain nonprofit corporations that are operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare (commonly referred to as “Social Welfare Organizations”) and...

In McRO, Federal Circuit Provides Further Guidance on Section 101

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

Two years after the Central District of California invalidated two 3-D animation patents under Section 101, the Federal Circuit reversed that court’s decision, finding that the lower court oversimplified the claims of a computer-related invention....

Attention Seattle Food Service and Retail Employers: City Council Passes Secure Scheduling Ordinance

By EsqSocial Corporation 22/09/16

On September 19, 2016, Seattle became the second city in the nation (after San Francisco) to pass a “Secure Scheduling Ordinance” with broad implications for the food service and retail industries within Seattle’s city limits. Scheduled to take...

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