In all events, shareholders' representation shall be subject to the rules set forth under Colombian Corporate Law and Securities Regulations, concerning illegal, unauthorized and unsafe practices by the issuers of securities. ...more »
By making a will and assigning power of attorney, an elder will feel comforted that his/her wishes will be carried out. Wills are often changed, so be ready to execute more than one document over time. And remember, anytime someone signs a will, ...more »
The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts is requesting that the court be closed "to facilitate the migration of data," wrote Capristo, who oversees district judges. A mountain of paper files and 20 years of computer records need to be split up ...more »
Fellow Republicans have criticized Romney because the healthcare plan he helped develop in Massachusetts became a model for Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare law. Romney defends the state law but has promised to repeal the federal version. ...more »
For 2.5 years, Weber-Jones worked with Repr. Bill Black and Gloria and Chuck Wilhelm to pass Matt's Law, in honor of the Wilhelm's son Matt who died in a distracted driving crash. The law bans texting while driving in Illinois. Weber-Jones also gives ...more »
Authorities say an Alabama woman threatened the governor's life over the state's tough law cracking down on illegal immigration. The Montgomery Advertiser reports (http://on.mgmadv.com/qSeutO ) that 38-year-old Tiffany R. Morales is accused of calling ...more »
A swathe of other ministers have backed him, declaring that Britain must build its way out of recession, regardless of an outcry from countryside and green groups, including the National Trust. Meanwhile, the Campaign to Protect Rural England has ...more »
THE Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has published a new edition of its Code of Practice for Service Charges and Commercial Property. The second edition of this code comes into force this month, and gives guidance on alternative dispute...more »
Deval Patrick, who used the ever-increasing cost of premiums as a bludgeon in his 2010 reelection campaign against former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO Charles Baker, has filed legislation overhauling the state's system of paying for and delivering ...more »
This week, Alison Gianotto, who established pet-abuse.com in 2001, offered to help the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA, the agency designated under the new law to develop and maintain the registry) design a data ...more »
(This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics. Updates with Immunocellular item in Patent section.) Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. was sued for patent ...more »
The teacher is not asking any court to take sides in a religious dispute, her lawyers say. Rather, she merely seeks a determination of whether her dismissal violated generally applicable provisions of a federal anti-discrimination law. In Zivotofsky v. ...more »
The Minister for Women and Children's Affairs, Mrs. Juliana Azumah-Mensah has announced that the Ministry is leading a nationwide education and consultative tour to gather inputs for the drafting of Affirmative Action Bill to be laid before Parliament ...more »
Even as the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) had pushed for a cap of 26 per cent, the Civil Aviation Ministry favoured fixation of the cap at 24 per cent, which effectively bars the foreign airlines from having a strategic say in ...more »
By Z Ali At around 10 am on Monday morning, the Qasimabad police received a frantic phone call from a landlord in Junejo Colony. He complained that his tenant was making a lot of noise, as if he were in a lot of pain. By the time ASI Manzoor Jamali got ...more »
by insideARM.com – October 14, 2011 The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of a credit repair company with making false statements to credit bureaus about information in consumers' credit reports, and illegally collecting fees from ...more »
AP , 10.03.11, 04:56 PM EDT WHITEHOUSE STATION, NJ -- Drug maker Merck said Monday it won a fourth court case brought by a patient who blamed the company's osteoporosis drug Fosamax for jaw and dental injuries. A jury in New York ruled in the company's ...more »
“EDMC believes that the case should be dismissed with prejudice because the government's False Claims Act and common law claims are legally flawed and factually insufficient. “The narrow legal issue in this case is whether the sole basis for EDMC's ...more »
Under the law abolishing "don't ask, don't tell" that Congress passed in December, the policy would not officially end until 60 days after such certification. The timing ended up working out, but if the ban had remained in effect, this weekend's summit ...more »
Task force detectives were investigating the undisclosed Dover address -- based on a tip from the Pennsylvania Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force -- when the Delaware State Police responded to a domestic disturbance at the same address, ...more »
For the past 30 years, the New York personal injury, medical malpractice, auto accident, and construction accident lawyers at The Perecman Firm, PLLC have handled all types of personal injury cases. David Perecman, founder of the Firm, ...more »
Why are such clear constitutional provisions being circumvented? The President can name and rename as many airports, hospitals and stadiums as he wants because nothing in the law says he has to consult. But he cannot surely carry on flouting the law in ...more »
We would like to congratulate LeRoy H. Wulfmeier, III on being selected as the 'Detroit Best Lawyers Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants Lawyer of the Year' for 2012." Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, PC is ranked as the 12th largest law firm in ...more »
Due to various factors, ranging from the global financial crisis that began in 2007 to new laws such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, banks and financial institutions have had to alter the way they operate. ...more »
Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP, a full service law firm based in Bucks County, announces the addition of Michael J. Stutman to the Firm's Corporate, Real Estate, and Business Practice Groups. With more than twenty years' experience and expertise in ...more »
KK Sarachandra Bose is a Partner/Corporate, Commercial and Contract Lawyer at Dar Al Adalah Advocates and Legal Consultants. Readers may e-mail their questions to: ktedit@emirates.net.ae or send them to (Legal View), Khaleej Times, Dubai PO Box 11243.more »
THE new world of social media and addressing child protection were highlighted as the main concerns for clubs at a recent Sports Law Seminar held in Limerick. The event hosted by the Sports Law Department in Sweeney McGann Solicitors ...more »
Defense attorney Billy Joe Sheffield II says he hopes his client, 39-year-old Webster Simmons, can return to a career in law enforcement after the criminal charges forced him to resign his position as a police officer at Duke University. ...more »
Google cuts its tax bill by about $US1 billion a year using a technique that allocates profits to a unit managed out of a law firm in Bermuda, where there is no corporate income tax. In 2009, the most recent year for which records are available, ...more »
Welcome to life in Alabama in the age of HB 56. Just three weeks after Alabama began enforcing what's been called the nation's strictest anti-immigrant state law, the country is beginning to see just what happens when states create and enforce their ...more »
Career military personnel, often referred to as the retiree, remain subject to federal laws and military regulations that control the daily earnings of military retired/retainer pay, whereas the former spouse is not. It's time the USFSPA law be ...more »
“The first few widgets are always more expensive than the billionth,” said James Rekoske, vice president of renewable energy at Honeywell's UOP unit. “That's where we're at.” Honeywell expects to have delivered about 800000 gallons of biojet fuel from ...more »
San Francisco family law attorney Barry Schneider says attorneys must take steps to ease the burden on the overloaded court system and help clients get a speedier resolution. "These cutbacks in the local divorce, family law, and probate courts may ...more »
Americans' favorable view of the Democrats' health care law has dropped to a new low not seen since the law was passed in March 2010, according to a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report, released today, found that 34 percent of Americans ...more »
RetailFirst and BusinessFirst are Florida-based monoline workers' compensation carriers, with total assets of $269.8 million, and a policyholder surplus of $128.3 million as of June 30, 2011. Both are backed by a top-rated reinsurance company, ...more »
