Corporate & Securities Law

Public v. Private Sector Employment
Kenneth McDonnell (EBRI) has just posted on SSRN an interesting study comparing the compensation of public-sector and private-sector employees. The study is Benefit Cost Comparisons Between State and Local Governments and Private-Sector Employers; here's the abstract: This paper examines some...

Financing Space Assets and Private Business Entities - Part II
III. Debtor?s Rights and Related Rights A. Background Since space assets require huge amount of money, the space industry takes a great effort to get finance for manufacturing and maintaining them...

Gardner on International Application of Regulatory Takings
Royal C. Gardner (Stetson) has posted Taking the Principle of Just Compensation Abroad: Private Property Rights, National Sovereignty, and the Cost of Environmental Protection on SSRN...

Our data should be free
A long-awaited private study by Cambridge University into the pricing of public sector information (PSI) by trading funds (Ordnance Survey, Met Office, Companies House, Land Registry et al) was published on the side with the 2008 Budget Report...

New Publication: Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law
Recently, Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law, prepared by the Study Group on a European Civil Code and the Research Group on EC Private Law (Acquis Group), has been published...

Background checks of NASA scientists threaten their rights
Invasive background checks of senior scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's threaten their constitutional rights, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday (Nelson v...

Private Investigators and Detectives
Services Provided by Private Investigators

Employee Lawsuits
Dealing with violence in the workplace

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

US Government
alleging land surveyors should not be allowed on private property to build a US Mexican border wall.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

Utilities Whistleblower
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities agrees to $485,000 fine for setting up a private bank account.

Becker County
Faces Civil Rights Class Action by Inmates and their Attorneys

Procrit
Associated with Death in Stroke Study