At a time of turmoil people look to places of calm – safe havens and pleasant countries to savor their savings and their lives. So why are billionaires and others seeking a bolthole, or more, in this country? Favorite bolthole countries are far and wide, from Switzerland with its withering secrecy laws and beauty, Uruguay […]
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The government has asked a United States Magistrate Judge in Riverside, California to vacate her order compelling Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone that was used by one of the terrorists who murdered 14 innocent Americans in San Bernardino on December 2nd of last year. Our decision to conclude the
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LOS ANGELES – A JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly attempted to use her credentials to bring nearly 70 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airporton Friday was charged today with a federal narcotics trafficking offense. Marsha Reynolds, 31, of Jamaica, New York, was taken into custody this afternoon
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARC WIESELTHIER, a certified public accountant and former partner at a New York accounting firm (the “Firm”), was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for participating in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars in loans by making false
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Mintz Levin – In Howard v. Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., a Hawaiian Federal Court found that Hertz Rent-a-Car could not be held responsible for its employee’s Facebook comments about one of its customers. While employers should welcome the outcome, it did turn on the facts, and could have produced a different result under different circumstances. Employers
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Bryan Cave Introduction The fate of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union hangs in the balance. Britons are due to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on 23rd June 2016 to decide whether the UK should remain a member of the EU. This is one of the most important political
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LawFuel.com – The Law News Daily Site – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and David E. Beach, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Secret
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Robinson + Cole – “Today is [Facebook friend’s] birthday. Reply to post a wish on her Timeline or reply with 1 to post ‘Happy Birthday!’” Facebook, Inc. (Facebook) faces a class action in California federal court for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by sending its users unsolicited, automated text messages to
Donald Trump’s speech at Valdosta University has drawn a huge crowd in Georgia as he continues his themes of building the Mexican border wall, abandoning Obamacare and protecting the Second Amendment. His repeated refrain to “win at every single level” is repeated as his GOP rivals step up their efforts in an increasingly bitter and
Pam Woldow* – Our current series of posts about Feminenglish, that peculiar deferential language female lawyers and business women have learned to speak in meetings with men, and last year’s related seriesabout how men tend to grab the mike in meetings and “borrow” women’s ideas, are not intended as a feminist manifesto or a deep
