More often than you might think, landlords enter into leases with tenant-entities only to find later, when the tenant defaults under the lease, that the tenant-entity was never lawfully formed or did not exist at the time of entering into the lease.
In back-to-back decisions, the Ninth and Second circuits interpreted three different federal statutes '' the CFAA, the NSPA, EEA '' in ways that narrowed federal prosecutors'' ability to charge former employees for stealing proprietary information from their companies.
This article continues last month's discusssion with a look at the IRS whislteblower program's success to date, as well as proposed improvements to the program.
When the contents of electronic devices are encrypted, must the owner facilitate the government's review by decrypting the data or supplying the password to do so? A look at recent rulings.
Asbestos defendants that file for reorganization under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and seek to establish a personal injury trust for the payment of claims may transfer their liability insurance recovery rights to the trust even if the insurance policies include provisions barring the transfer of such rights.
The Fifth Circuit recently reversed a district court's fraudulent transfer judgment based on a financially troubled entity's gift to a charity. The American Cancer Society v. Cook.
This article considers the genesis, tendency and scope of the district courts' withdrawals of the reference in some of the more complex proceedings pending today.
Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy case was the largest and most complex Chapter 11 case in history. Here's an inside look.
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