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Accidental Expatriates: Potential Global Mobility Hazard
A significant issue facing global corporations is the potential for liability created by "accidental expatriates" — employees who travel overseas on what are intended to be brief business trips or short assignments, write Erika Collins and John Hamlin. They are usually not included in their organization's global mobility expatriate programs, and whose time overseas is extended long enough or cumulates over time to bring about potential violations of host country immigration, tax and Social Security laws. Recently, the instances of accidental expatriates are on the rise. There are several reasons for the increase in these types of employees.GM Obstructed Justice but Didn't Induce Witness To Lie
General Motors and its lawyers obstructed justice in shielding documents related to fuel-fed fires in its vehicles, but did not suborn perjury, a Fulton judge ruled. The ruling Tuesday stems from allegations the automaker and its lawyers committed various crime and frauds in concealing the existence and contents of a 1973 engineer's report. Brogdon wrote that he found no evidence that GM, its in-house lawyers or outside counsel caused or influenced the engineer to lie at deposition.In Win for Gucci, Judge Says Privilege Applies to Lawyer Who's Not 'Active'
That sound you hear is a sigh of relief from GCs across the country: A judge has ruled that Gucci's talks with its (now fired) in-house lawyer are protected by privilege — even though he was an inactive member of the California bar.American Airlines and US Airways are pushing back hard against the U.S. Department of Justice, filing court papers blasting the government’s bid to block their pending $11 billion merger.
What Grokster Means for Executives
Executives with teen-age children have probably heard of Grokster, a distributor of software that allows users to share music and video files through a peer-to-peer network. But now executives need to know what a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Grokster may mean for their businesses.GM Lawyers Defend Against 'Lies' Told to Get Documents
Lawyers for General Motors came out shooting last week in a Georgia courtroom when they finally got their chance to defend against allegations of suborned perjury and obstruction of justice. Accusing their chief accuser, GM nemesis James Butler Jr., of lying about them, GM lawyers also suggested that Butler may have "cooked" critical testimony against GM.Opening its new term with old business, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to restrict lawsuits in federal courts by foreign victims of human rights violations committed abroad.
Ruling that the government must cough up export license applications, a judge in San Francisco handed the Electronic Frontier Foundation a win and threw the Ninth Circuit a hot potato amid a national debate over surveillance technology and civil rights.
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