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2016 Massachusetts Employment Law Year In Review

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

2016 Massachusetts Employment Law Year in Review - From case law interpreting one of, if not, the most employee-friendly independent contractor statute in the country to Beacon Hill’s efforts to pass non-competition agreement reform, Massachusetts...

Arizona Statute of Limitations on Credit Card Debt – New Decision Deals Blow to Consumers

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

The Arizona Court of Appeals recently dealt a blow to consumers when it issued a new decision on the statute of limitations as it applies to credit card debt. The statute of limitations is the time period a credit card company has to file a...

US Federal Reserve Board Announces Annual Adjustment to the Asset-Size Threshold in Regulation I

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

The US Federal Reserve Board announced the annual adjustment to the asset-size threshold in Regulation I, which determines the dividend rate that certain member banks earn on their Federal Reserve Bank stock. The updated total consolidated asset...

Cookies Crumble? The Draft EU Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

The European Commission recently published a proposed Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (the “Regulation”). The Regulation aims to update and broaden the scope of current rules under the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) on...

Court Rules for Fund Adviser in Excessive Fee Case Against Hartford

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

On February 28, the court in the mutual fund excessive fee case against Hartford (Kasilag v. Hartford Inv. Fin. Servs., LLC, No. 1:11-cv-01083 (D.N.J.)) issued a 70-page opinion ruling in favor of the fund adviser and against the plaintiffs. The...

The Dusky Gopher Frog Lives to Fight Another Day: Fifth Circuit Denies Rehearing

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

On February 13, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Defendants’ Petition for Rehearing En Banc in the case titled Markle Interests, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. The Defendants, who are timber and...

Amendments to the ICC Rules: new Expedited Procedure effective March 1, 2017

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

On March 1, 2017, several amendments to the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Rules of Arbitration (ICC Rules) will take effect. The most noteworthy of these amendments is the introduction of a new Expedited Procedure which aims to reduce the...

Weekly Wrap

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

Budget hearings were the name of the game again this week, with a few other committee meetings sprinkled in throughout the week. In the House of Representatives on Monday, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) kicked things off by...

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - March 2017

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

Environmental and Policy Focus - Trump directs rollback of Obama-era water rule - The Washington Post - Feb 28 - President Trump on Tuesday instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to review and...

WSGR FinTech Update - March 2017

By EsqSocial Corporation 06/03/17

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to introduce the first in a series of monthly updates from the FinTech practice. The purpose of the updates is to provide timely information on issues of interest to WSGR’s FinTech clients and friends of...

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