Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Home Topics

Litigation

Features

Whither Weingarten? Image

Whither Weingarten?

John D. Shyer & Linda M. Inscoe

The current NLRB is beginning to issue rules and decisions more favorable to organized labor, and its field offices are issuing complaints expanding the rights of non-union workers. A look at <i>Weingarten</i> rights, and what they mean.

Features

Employee's Inability to Work Overtime Is Not a Per Se Disability Image

Employee's Inability to Work Overtime Is Not a Per Se Disability

Maria Greco Danaher

The Fourth U.S. Court of Appeals has dismissed an employee's lawsuit, holding that the individual's inability to work overtime hours was not a substantial limitation that would entitle him to the protections of the ADA.

Features

Quarterly State Compliance Review Image

Quarterly State Compliance Review

Sandra Feldman

This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some enacted and pending legislation of interest to corporate lawyers. It also analyzes some recent cases of interest, including two decisions from the Delaware Chancery Court.

Features

Secured Lender Invokes Seldom-Used Tool to Protect Collateral in Bankruptcy Image

Secured Lender Invokes Seldom-Used Tool to Protect Collateral in Bankruptcy

Mark A. Berkoff, Robert Radasevich, Nicholas M. Miller, William Choslovsky & Kevin G. Schneider

In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process,the question becomes: Who will take the loss on their balance sheet ' the lender or the borrower? An analysis of recent litigation.

Features

Public Corruption Prosecutions in New York Image

Public Corruption Prosecutions in New York

Daniel G. Cort & Daniel R. Alonso

This article focuses on the example of New York State and the prosecution of public corruption offenses under that state's law. A case in point is the recent prosecution of former New York State comptroller Alan Hevesi, in which then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo effectively used a statute other than bribery to prosecute public corruption.

Features

Development Image

Development

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

An important planning board case.

Features

Real Property Law Image

Real Property Law

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at several key cases.

Features

Decisions of Interest Image

Decisions of Interest

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Analysis of a recent important ruling.

Features

NJ & CT News Image

NJ & CT News

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Key happenings in neighboring states.

Features

Divorce Granted After Trial Proves Irretrievable Breakdown Image

Divorce Granted After Trial Proves Irretrievable Breakdown

Janice G. Inman

In what was apparently the first trial of a contested no-fault divorce under New York's recently enacted Domestic Relations Law, Suffolk County Acting Supreme Court Judge James F. Quinn declared a 56-year marriage irretrievably broken and granted the plaintiff wife's request for divorce.

Need Help?

  1. Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
  2. Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.

MOST POPULAR STORIES

  • Private Equity Valuation: A Significant Decision
    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
    Read More ›