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Your Rights While In Custody

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

The fact that you are in custody either following a conviction or awaiting trial does not mean that all of your constitutional rights disappear. As a rule, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your cell or your person while in custody, so...

NPDB Guidebook revision would clarify investigation reporting issues

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

Physicians always have been justifiably concerned about reports to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) regarding malpractice payments and adverse peer review actions. Two areas of frequent uncertainty have been: 1) Reporting malpractice...

What if You Were Partially at Fault for Your Accident?

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

Everyone makes mistakes, especially on the road. However, many injured motorists incorrectly believe that if their own negligence contributed to their injuries in any way, they are wholly unable to recover legal compensation. This belief is based on...

Backdating Your Divorce

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

Divorce can be a lengthy process. If there is a large estate or many contested issues, such as child support or custody arrangements, or if one partner is unable or unwilling to be communicative, a divorce can drag on without being finalized for...

Frustration of Purpose: A Frustrating Doctrine

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

Next Gen Capital, LLC v. Consumer Lending Associates, LLC illustrates the difficulty a tenant faces when trying to avoid liability for breaching a lease based on the “frustration of purpose” defense. No. 1 CA-CV 12-0624 (Ariz. Ct. App. Dec. 19,...

Personal Injury Mediation: 5 Things to Expect

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

Though you may imagine your personal injury lawsuit turning into a dramatic episode fit for primetime television, in reality, many personal injury cases wind up in mediation. Many courts even mandate mediation as part of the pretrial process.

New Tools to Comply with the Brown Act and Increase Transparency

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

Meeting management is big business for governments at every level, and the recent enactment of SB 751 has many public agencies reviewing the policies and tools they use to manage their public meetings. SB 751 requires legislative bodies subject to...

Opening of Mexico energy market a benefit to NAFTA partners

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

On December 12, 2013, Mexico’s lower house of Congress finally passed energy reforms, opening the country’s state-monopolized industry after 75 years. The 353-134 vote will allow private companies as well as international investors to spend billions...

NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal: Federal Judge

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

It's been an uncertain year for NSA surveillance, but a federal judge ruled Friday that the Agency's phone surveillance program was and is legal. From the Southern District of New York, U.S.

OCC Issues Interpretive Letter Concluding that Bank Investment in Company that Owns Renewable Energy Solar Project is Permissible

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/12/13

The OCC issued an interpretive letter (“Letter #1139”), in which the OCC concluded that a national bank (the “Bank”) could provide financing for a renewable energy solar project (the “Facility”) in which the financing was structured as an investment...

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