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Jonathan T. Hyman; Kohrman Jackson & Krantz PLL;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 21, 2013 Let’s say your business is located in a less-than-desirable neighborhood. Three of your employees engage in the following conversation on their personal Facebook pages:
| | Engineer Claiming Hazardous Conditions Ordered Reinstated
Igor M. Babichenko, Mary E. Pivec; Williams Mullen;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 On May 15, 2013, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) ordered the reinstatement of an engineer who claimed that he was terminated after reporting hazardous conditions at a nuclear power plant. In addition, OSHA awarded the engineer more than $150,000 in back...
|  | In the Crosshairs: District Courts Utilize Gunn to Dismiss Patent-Related Legal Malpractice Claims for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Stephen J. Shapiro; Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 2013 In an opinion and order dated May 7, 2013, the Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a legal malpractice action alleging that a law firm and one of its lawyers (the “Law Firm”)...
| | Love Is In The Air...
Ria N. Chattergoon; Fisher & Phillips LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 1, 2013 Nora Roberts said “Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.” Love and the workplace, however, well, that is a different ball game.
| | Assumed Obligations Embedded in Property Not Included in Vendor’s Proceeds, Supreme Court of Canada Finds in Daishowa Case
Kim Maguire, Steve Suarez; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 27, 2013 On May 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) released its decision in Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. v. The Queen (2013 SCC 29). This case has been followed closely by the tax community since it concerns an issue of fundamental commercial importance: the tax treatment of...
| | Email Surveillance as Evidence of Retaliation
Jonathan T. Hyman; Kohrman Jackson & Krantz PLL;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 22, 2013 Employees should not operate under any false ideas that they enjoy an expectation of privacy in their work email accounts. Just because an employer has the right to snoop through an employee’s email, however, does not mean the practice does not carry some degree of risk.
| | ALJ Bullock Denies Motion For Summary Determination Of Noninfringement And Motion In Limine In Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets (337-TA-855)
Eric W. Schweibenz, Thomas C. Yebernetsky; Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 31, 2013 On May 29, 2013, Chief ALJ Bullock issued Order Nos.115 and 119 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855).
| | Supreme Court Decides To Hear Applicability of Sarbanes-Oxley’s Whistleblower Protections
Daniel E. Brewer, Scott Coffina, Mary P. Hansen; Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to decide whether the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), 18 U.S.C. § 1514A, extend to employees of privately held contractors or subcontractors of a public company. The case, Lawson v. FMR, LLC, is of particular import to...
| | Dialog between Regulators and Insurers Is Imperative in Response to Requests for Information Concerning Cybersecurity
Lori S. Nugent, Cynthia D. Shenker; Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 The State of New York has launched an investigation into the policies and procedures established by New York’s largest insurance companies to secure their electronic systems from unauthorized access.
| | PPH Pilot Program between Canada and China to begin September 1, 2013
James Jun Pan, James Jun Pan; Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published by IP Update, Smart & Biggar’s Canadian intellectual property and technology law update On September 1, 2013, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People's Republic of China and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) will commence a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program that will fast-track examination of eligible patent applications between Canada...
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