Tag Archives: Rules

Kysar Presents Earmark Rules and Statutory Interpretation Today at Loyola-L.A.

Rebecca M. Kysar (Brooklyn) presents Listening to Congress: Earmark Rules and Statutory Interpretation. 94 Cornell L. Rev. ___ (2009), at Loyola-L.A. today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. The commentator is Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.). Here is the… … Continue reading

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Employer’s Campaign Prediction That Employees Would Have To Join Union And Pay Dues As Condition Of Employment Not Coercive, NLRB Majority Rules

The NLRB currently is churning out cases and Advice Memoranda at a fairly regular pace.  We recently discussed NLRB decisions addressing information requests, handbook statements, and confidential informants. An interesting area of NLRB case law concerns campaign statements,–statements made by employer representatives … Continue reading

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Jury Rules in SEC’s Favor, Finds Brokerage Firm and Two of Its Executives Liable for Fraud

Jurors in Manhattan federal court today returned a verdict in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s favor against a brokerage firm and two of its executives.The SEC charged the brokerage firm, Portfolio Advisors Alliance Inc. (PAA), Howard J. Allen, the indirect owner of … Continue reading

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New York Appellate Court Rules that Summary Judgment Should Have Been Entered in Car Accident Case

In a Syracuse automobile accident lawsuit, the plaintiff must be able to prove that the driver against whom a claim is filed was negligent in some manner. In order to prove negligence, the plaintiff has to prove that the defendant … Continue reading

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Copyrights 101: Reviewing the rules of protecting original works

A copyright is a type of intellectual property which protects original artistic or literary works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression, meaning that the work is sufficiently permanent to last for more than a transitory period of … Continue reading

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