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McDonald Hopkins LLC;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 30, 2013 Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s regulations to stave off overconsumption of sugary drinks were overturned in state court. The measure banned sales of sugary drinks in excess of 16 ounces in restaurants and other food service establishments. Presently, after the New...
| | Ohio Embraces Asset Protection
Nicola Gudbranson Cooper LLC;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on Spring 2013 Ohio became much more asset protection friendly this spring, with a new state law that protects more assets from the claims of creditors and permits the creation of self-settled trusts that may be used to protect additional assets from the claims of creditors.
| | "Let's Hire An Unpaid Intern," Often A Bad Idea
John E. Thompson; Fisher & Phillips LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 1, 2013 We’ve warned clients for some time now that businesses and other organizations should think carefully if they are considering the possibility of permitting unpaid internships. What might be described as the internship “season” is fast-approaching, so the time to consider whether...
|  | New York State Regulations Restricting Provider Executive Compensation, Now Final (Finally)
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 31, 2013 On May 29, 2013, the New York State Department of Health (“DOH”) and 12 other State agencies published the highly anticipated final regulations limiting State funds for executive compensation to $199,000 a year as well as administrative expenses for Medicaid and other State-funded...
| | Getting Full Value For Your Business: Make Sure Your Lease Can't Get in the Way
John D. Brunt; Blaney McMurtry LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 You own a business. You operate from rented premises. You work hard, take the risks, take the lumps, and have a successful enterprise. One day, for whatever reason, you may want to sell. Are you going to realize full value?
| | Casualty and the Commercial Tenant: Follow the Terms of the Lease
Kohrman Jackson Krantz PLL;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 A common mistake that many commercial tenants make is assuming that protections provided by courts for residential tenants are also available to commercial tenants. There are many statues and ordinances in existence designed to protect individual consumers and residential tenants. The reasoning...
| | EIR For Desalination Plant Upheld
Katherine J. Hart; Abbott & Kindermann, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 30, 2013 The Marin Municipal Water District (District) proposed to construct a desalination plant in Marin County, and certified an environmental impact report (EIR) for the project. The North Coast Rivers Alliance (Alliance) challenged the EIR on the grounds that the EIR failed to properly analyze various...
| | Motor Vehicle Exception to Governmental Immunity
Karl W. Butterer; Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 2013 The Michigan Court of Appeals has issued recent opinions on the "motor vehicle exception" to governmental immunity. These cases will be of interest to any municipality that owns vehicles.
| | UK Corporate Update - Recent Cases of Interest
Laura Brunnen, Richard May, Helen Shilling, Jerry Walter; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (London) LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 This corporate update summarises certain decisions in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court relating to the balance sheet insolvency test, agreements to agree and the exercise of contractual discretion. The decisions clarify the law in a number of areas of day-to-day relevance.
| | Subsequent Mortgagee's Rights: Curing a Default and the Importance of Breached Covenants
Kym Stasiuk; Blaney McMurtry LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal serves as a reminder to subordinate lenders looking to take control over the sale of a property in a mortgage enforcement scenario that a partial cure of a default will not be enough to bring a mortgage into good standing.
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