Corporate & Securities Law

DNS Cache Poisoning Exploit Sorta Patched
Do you run BIND as a caching resolver? If so, I gather this new exploit, CERT VU#800113 DNS Cache Poisoning Issue, is a pretty big deal, and you need a patch NOW. Update: Links to more about this at Emergent Chaso, Massive Coordinated Vendor Patch For DNS...

Suspending TRIPS Obligations: A Rising Alternative For WTO Retaliation
By Catherine Saez Retaliating against a country found in violation of World Trade Organization rules by sanctioning the country?s activities in an unrelated trade sector may be a more effective alternative for developing countries than retaliating under the sector of the violation, especially when such cross-retaliation involves WTO rules on intellectual ...

DOJ Investigates Possible Food Price Collusion
Today’s Wall Street Journal (h/t Danny Sokol) reports that: Federal prosecutors have opened separate criminal probes into possible price-fixing by major egg producers and California tomato processors, the latest in a series of U...

Analyzing Family Ties Burdens: A Framework
In two previous posts, Ethan, Jennifer Collins and I identified some practices that we characterize as family ties burdens. Here, we present a normative framework for analyzing whether such penalties or burdens can be justified...

What is Retaliation under Massachusetts Employment Law
Pursuant to Massachusetts law, the word retaliation is defined as; an employer taking and adverse action against an employee as a result of the employee conducting some form of protected activity...

Richardson on Indigenous Peoples & Environmental Governance
Benjamin J. Richardson (York University - Osgoode Hall Law School) has posted The Ties that Bind: Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Governance (Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, 2009) on SSRN...

Miralus Inc.
alleging HeadOn is not safe or effective.

Music Teacher
College of the Desert agrees to $660,000 discrimination and retaliation settlement.

Police Whistleblower
Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation.

Police Chief Whistleblower
Argentine Township agrees to pay former employee $650,000 harassment and retaliation settlement.

Whistleblower Retaliation
Frankfort to pay $500,000 settlement in employment lawsuit.

Employee Retaliation
UPS pays $254,000 settlement in whistleblower lawsuit.