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Corporate Counsel

AFL-CIO Sues to Make Employers Pay for Protective Gear

When OSHA inspected Union Tank Car Co. in 1996, the agency cited the railroad car repair business for requiring its workers to pay for safety gear such as boots and welding gloves. But when Union Tank Car challenged the citation, the agency's review commission tossed it out. The commission said...
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Illinois AG Sues Cell Phone Spammers

When hundreds of Illinois residents received text messages asking them to sell their timeshare properties, they were at first puzzled. But their puzzlement quickly turned to anger when they realized their cell phone providers were charging them a fee for receiving the unsolicited messages. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan stepped...
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Parmalat Suit To Stay in N.J.

A state court in Newark, N.J., is an ideal location to decide whether New York-based Citigroup Inc. was complicit in the fraud that caused the 2004 collapse of Italian dairy giant Parmalat. At least that's what Superior Court Judge Jonathan Harris thinks. "After carefully reviewing a hastily cobbled together record...
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Appeals Court Defines

What started off as a discrimination case in Puerto Rico quickly spiraled into a linguistic debate over whether a shareholder or director is considered an employee under the law. On Jan. 19, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals answered that question for the first time. In December 2004 Lenda De...
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

License to Steal

Kazaa suit raises concerns about enforcement of end user license agreements.
16 minute read

Corporate Counsel

California Grocers Challenge Worker Retention Law

In general employers are allowed to choose their workers. But that's not the case for Los Angeles grocery store owners. That's because last spring the city became one of several California cities to pass the controversial Grocery Worker Retention Ordinance. This law mandates that when a grocery store changes ownership,...
16 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Directors' Duties

Developed piecemeal through the years, the rules governing U.K. companies remained the statutory equivalent of a pocketful of cocktail napkin scribbles. A law about shareholder communications here, another about transactions there. The large body of common law was an enigmatic nightmare for in-house counsel. Parliament decided to alleviate the nightmare...
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Court Restricts Rights of Patent Licensees

When Propat International licensed a patent for e-mail authentication technology from Authentix, the company thought it was getting robust rights to use and enforce the patent. The agreement gave Propat, a Houston-based licensing company, authority to sell licenses and sue infringers, sharing the profits with Authentix. But when Propat went...
12 minute read

Inside Counsel

Offensive Measures

EEOC shifts its focus from individual complaints to cases of systemic discrimination.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

License to Steal

Kazaa suit raises concerns about enforcement of end user license agreements.
16 minute read

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