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State Attorneys General Fire Shot Across the Bow at Major Payment Card Brands Over “Chip and PIN” Technology

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

For well over a decade, U.S. regulators have been taking enforcement action against merchants and payment processors that, in the regulators’ view, failed to take “reasonable and appropriate” steps to secure payment card information in their...

A New Dawn for Data Privacy in the Old World

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

After the European Court of Justice gutted the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement in its landmark decision in Schrems v. Facebook, a number of EU data protection authorities (DPAs) issued clarifying statements. Here is a look at some of the recent...

Lawsuit says aggravated municipal judge shouted at defendant who sought sign-language interpreter

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

A New Jersey man who says he was “ignored, humiliated and treated with discrimination and deliberate indifference” when he sought a sign-language interpreter in a…

The Beef Between In-N-Out Burger and Doordash

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

Everyone on the West Coast knows In-N-Out Burger. For some of us Californians, the burgers may even be considered a state treasure. Doordash, on the other hand, is much less recognizable. It is an on-demand delivery service that connects its...

Court Of Chancery Explains Anti-Reliance Clause

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

This is an important decision because it explains so well the effect of an anti-reliance clause in the agreement for the sale of a business. The clause will bar fraud claims based on misrepresentations outside the terms of the agreement even if the...

Refusal to Allow Employee to Rescind Resignation May Violate Title VII

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

In general, once an employee tenders his or her notice of resignation, the employer is under no legal obligation to rescind acceptance of the notice. Last month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals cast doubt on this rule by concluding that in some...

It’s The 2015 Workplace Holiday Party Quiz!

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

Chanukah starts at sundown this Sunday, and Christmas is only three short weeks away. Can you throw a workplace holiday party that won’t result in a lawsuit? It has been ages since we’ve had a quiz. Let’s do it!...

2016 California Construction Law Update

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

The California State Legislature saw the introduction of 2,297 bills during the first half of the 2015-2016 legislative session of which 1,010 bills were signed into law....
By: Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

DC Employers Required to Provide Transit Benefits

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

Beginning on January 1, 2016, the DC Commuter Benefits Ordinance will require Washington, DC employers with 20 or more employees working in DC to provide commuter transit benefits pursuant to the Sustainable DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2014. While...

Lawyer found dead as his murder trial loomed had accidental overdose, coroner says

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/12/15

A 60-year-old attorney found dead at his California home in early October, less than two months before his scheduled murder trial in the fatal shooting…

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