Corporate & Securities Law

New CRS Report Provides Overview of the E-Government Reauthorization Act of 2007
Reauthorization of the E-Government Act: A Brief Overview (May 14, 2008)(pdf). [Thomas Resources for S...

The Federal Trade Commission at 100: Into Our Second Century
The Federal Trade Commission at 100: Into Our Second Century, 21st Annual Western Conference of the Rutgers University Center for...

Proposed Federal Trade Commission Rules for Adjudicative Proceedings
Marcia Coyle at the National Law Journal has an article posted this morning about the Federal Trade Commission?s proposing ?new rules to improve and streamline enforcement actions tried before administrative law judges? last Thursday...

Federal Trade Commission Files Amicus Brief in Ciprofloxacin "Reverse Payment" Case
The Federal Trade Commission announced last week that it recently filed an amicus brief in In re Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, currently pending in the Federal Circuit...

Coate & Fischer on Daubert, Game Theory, and Mergers
Malcolm B. Coate and Jeffrey H. Fischer (U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U...

Catching Up With the JJDPA Reauthorization Campaign
From the March issue of Youth Today (the link is unavailable, so the text is posted below in full): Advocates Seek to Reform JJDP Act by Erika Fitzpatrick Federal juvenile justice reauthorization should for the first time encourage states to address conditions in youth jails and residential facilities, in light of recent abuses in such places as Texas [...

Trade Secrets
Former execs are hit with doctrine of inevitable disclosure.

Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Financial Incentive for Adoptive Parents

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

I was fired on June 3, 2002 in Massachusetts because I reported discriminatory behavior by the employer towards a particular nationality. In July I filed a discrimination/retaliation complaint against the employer with t
It seem sin your case that the fact you filed the complaint prior to being dissa...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

Can I marry an alien while my US citizenship application is being procesed?
it doesn't matter,you can marry,just provide them with marriage certificate...

Trade Secrets
Razorsight agreed to pay $4.5 million settlement in infringement lawsuit.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.

Taylor Bean Faces Federal WARN Class Action
Taylor Bean Federal Employment Class Action Filed

Federal Government
alleging discrimination against black farmers

Federal National Mortgage Association
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Wal-Mart
Settles 63 Federal and State Class Actions for $640 Million