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It seems that children have always bullied other children, despite the best intentions of teachers and state anti-bullying laws. And now that many children have taken their social lives online, they've taken their bullying there as well.

In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask:...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the expiration dates in its interim final rules that provided exemptions for certain securities-based swaps......
By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

This March the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) is launching a pilot program to take a fresh look at long-term institutional and engineering controls implemented at cleanup sites that have received No Further Action (“NFA”)...

Members of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Healthcare Information Technology team attended the 2017 HIMSS Conference February 19-23 in Orlando, FL. Hundreds of innovative companies and 40,000+ technology professionals took part in a week of networking...

I. INTRODUCTION - This outline is a selective and evolving review of the history of the modern federal estate tax. It originated during the attempts to repeal the estate tax in President Clinton’s second term and accelerated with the one-year...

The Texas Supreme Court recently handed an owner of a Texas oil refinery a significant victory in Valero Refining-Texas, L.P. v. Galveston Central Appraisal District, No. 15-0492, 2017 WL 727276 (Tex. Feb. 24, 2017). In a suit relating to the 2011...

We’ve closely followed the numerous biometric privacy disputes and legislative developments surrounding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which precludes the unauthorized collection and storing of some types of biometric data....

In a move the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services cites as a reaction to President Donald Trump's regulatory freeze, CMS announced that implementation of certain minor aspects of the final rule expanding Medicare mandatory bundled payment models...

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