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New Jersey Appellate Division Applies Anti-Concurrent Causation Clause to Bar Combined Flood/Sewer Backup Claim

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Frequent readers of the blog will appreciate that disputes involving the application of anti-concurrent causation language in the context of claims for flood or water damage have appeared with some frequency in recent years. This increased level of...

The Wages of Trespass Is A Big, Fat, Penalty

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Last year, I blogged about the 9th Circuit decision in United States v. Estate of E. Wayne Hage, in which the Court reversed a District Court decision rejecting United States claims that Hage had trespassed on federal lands by grazing livestock...

Is It the End of the Johnson Amendment as We Know It?

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

While speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2, 2017, President Trump reaffirmed his commitment to repeal the law that restricts organizations that are tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) from...

NY Regulations on Wage Payment by Direct Deposit / Payroll Debit Cards Have Been Invalidated

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

The New York State Industrial Board of Appeals (the “IBA” or the “Board”) invalidated regulations scheduled to take effect on March 7, 2017, that would have enhanced the notice and authorization requirements for employers using direct deposit or...

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

In this week’s Common Sense entry, James Stewart lets us in on how an entity that loses so much money (Snap) could be worth so much [it gained 44 percent on its offering price in the first day of trading]. The answer is being okay with some “very...

Regulators Prepare for Innovation in Distributed Ledger Technology

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Regulators across the globe are considering how existing regulations may accommodate the development of new distributed ledger technologies (“DLT”) (also known as “blockchain”). In just the first two months of 2017, the U.S. Financial Industry...

eDiscovery Proportionality Review: Three Key Themes

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Substantial changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) went into effect on December 1, 2015. The upshot of these amendments was to change several important procedural aspects of the FRCP governing eDiscovery (the process of finding and...

ABA Center for Innovation will hold design event to create app for hate crime victims

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Stop hate crime

Texas Wants to Make Cyberbullying a Crime

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

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.

Top Ten International Anti-Corruption Developments for January 2017

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

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:...

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