The French Competition Authority recalls that a resale price mentioned publicly is not necessarily an imposed resale price - The French Competition Authority inaugurated December with a non-suit concerning an alleged unlawful agreement on resale...
As previously reported, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) on December 4. The transportation bill includes several provisions related to securities laws and capital-raising measures, which were...
On November 30, 2015, the Delaware Supreme Court issued an opinion affirming the Court of Chancery’s decision in In re Rural/Metro Corporation Stockholders Litigation. In the earlier decisions, the Court of Chancery found that Rural/Metro...
A Pennsylvania lawyer has been suspended from practice for five years for what a disciplinary board calls a history of “pervasive neglect and incompetence,” as…
Michael Halvorson and Jessica Kokal obtain defense verdict for personal injury case. On May 23, 2011, Plaintiff, a grade school teacher and former college athlete, began to brake for slowing traffic when she was rear-ended by Defendant....
Financial Performance Representations (“FPR’s), or earnings claims, have been an integral part of franchise sales process well before the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) began its supervision of the franchise model. The original Federal Trade...
On December 14, the OCC released its quarterly Mortgage Metrics Report. The report shows continued improvement of the mortgage performance of first-lien mortgages during the third quarter of 2015. 93.9% of mortgages included in the report were...
On December 9, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Federal Register Notice announcing the launch of the eDisclosure portal, a centralized web-based system for receiving and automatically processing self-disclosed civil...
Recently, you may have received emails and alerts concerning proposed IRS regulations requiring charities to disclose donor Social Security Numbers ("SSN"). While donor privacy is a major concern, the proposed regulation should not be....
