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DOJ Issues New Guidance on the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Federal Fraud Investigations

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

On February 8th, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly issued new guidance on how the agency evaluates corporate compliance programs during fraud investigations. The guidance, published on the agency’s website as the “Evaluation of Corporate...

PTAB Puts Method Of Treatment Patents Under The 101 Knife

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

While the Supreme Court decisions in Myriad and Mayo have been applied to diagnostic-type claims, method of treatment patents were thought to be safe from the recent judicial expansion of the patent-(in)eligibility doctrine. However, several...

Jackson Gentlemen’s Club Agrees to Extend Settlement Agreement in EEOC Race Discrimination Suit

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

Danny's Downtown Failed to Abide by Terms of Litigation Settlement, Federal Agency Charged - JACKSON, Miss. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has settled a contempt action against Baby O's...

Does “Act” Mean Also a Failure to Act?

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

No, says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in In re Cowen, adopting the minority rule and parting ways with four other Courts of Appeals. The automatic stay provision of the Bankruptcy Code addressed in Cowen provides that the filing of...

China’s New Graft-Buster and What It Means for Multinational Companies Operating There

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

As China’s anti-corruption campaign continues to make headlines, a new pilot program promises to streamline regulation, foreboding increased scrutiny and harsher punishments for multinational companies operating there. Endorsed by Chinese officials...

Utah employee had no constitutional right to continued employment

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

Public employees who have a right to continued employ­ment enjoy constitutional due-process protections that run-of-the-mill at-will employees do not. How can a public employer know if one of its employees enjoys constitutional protection? Well, the...

President Trump's Most Recent Regulatory Reform Order

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/03/17

On Friday, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order targeting federal regulations. This new executive action, which is designed to enact the White House’s regulatory reform agenda, requires the heads of each government agency to appoint an...

WTO Appellate Body Report: Russia – Pigs (EU)

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Decision: The WTO Appellate Body has affirmed that the Russian Federation violated its WTO obligations by imposing an EU-wide ban on live pigs and pork products, in breach of the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary...

Proposed Legislation May Significantly Limit Class Action Litigation in Federal Court

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

Twelve years after he introduced the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has introduced the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (“the Act”), which would significantly change the federal class action...

SEC Proposes Additional Event Disclosures for Municipal Bond Issuers

By EsqSocial Corporation 03/03/17

On March 1, 2017, the Securities Exchange Commission voted in open meeting to propose amendments to Rule 15c2-12 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 adding two event notices to the current fourteen required in continuing disclosure agreements...

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