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NLRB Ratifies Pre-Noel Canning Actions

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

Although many suspected that the Supreme Court would invalidate all actions taken by the National Labor Relations Board in Noel Canning v. NLRB, the question remained just how many of the NLRB’s actions would stand. To this day, the NLRB’s decisions...

Aereo and Napster: Lessons in Licensing

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

As is increasingly reported, there is a battle raging in today’s marketplace between companies with new technology platforms and content creators from the entertainment community. On the one hand, are computer science engineers and programmers...

SEC Charges Oil and PR Firms And Their Executives With Fraud

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

An energy company, its CEO and the firm’s public relations adviser and its president were named in a fraud action by the SEC centered on false representations concerning oil reserves for a property in Columbia. The representations were used to sell...

Iowa Immigration Law Blog: L-1 Visa Inspections Have Begun

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

The Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) unit of USCIS has begun inspecting L-1 visa holders as planned. FDNS has inspected (and likely is continuing to inspect) H-1B holders for several years. L-1s are the latest target....

U.S. and EU Release New Export Restrictions on Exports of Equipment and Technology to Russia Exploration Projects

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

U.S. and EU Release New Export Restrictions on Exports of Equipment and Technology to Russia Exploration Projects - In a sweeping expansion of export restrictions against Russia in response to their finding that Russia’s recent actions and...

Jodi Arias is allowed to represent herself in new sentencing hearing

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

An Arizona judge has reluctantly granted a request by convicted murderer Jodi Arias to represent herself during a new sentencing hearing. Judge Sherry Stephens said Arias’ current defense lawyers will remain as advisory counsel when the hearing begins on Sept.

Q: “If clients hire lawyers, why market The Firm?”

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

We hear this a lot. It’s a completely legitimate and understandable question. An old McGraw-Hill ad answered it beautifully, and we’ve updated it to apply to lawyers and law firms (as well as accountants and accounting firms) below. The ad was...

Forcing kids to do household chores with beatings isn’t a federal crime, 6th Circuit rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

An immigrant in Michigan who forced four children from Togo to do household chores with beatings didn’t violate the federal law banning forced labor, a federal appeals court has ruled. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S.

[Video] Crisis at the Border Shows Problems in US Immigration Law

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

August 1, 2014 (Mimesis Law) -- To date, up to 57,000 unaccompanied minors fleeing social unrest in Central America have tried to cross over from Mexico into the United States, flooding the immigration system and sparking a protracted humanitarian...

EPA Looks to Reduce Methane Emissions from Landfills

By EsqSocial Corporation 05/08/14

As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the EPA is proposing to require certain landfills to capture extra landfill gas in order to decrease methane emissions. Methane is a strong greenhouse gas, its global warming potential is 25 times...

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