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New Brunswick's New Cost of Credit Disclosure Act

Suhuyini Abudulai & Jennifer Reed

The Canadian Province of New Brunswick recently brought into force a new Cost of Credit Disclosure Act and New Brunswick Regulation 2010-104 under the Cost of Credit Disclosure Act. The provisions of the Act and the Regulation change significantly the disclosure requirements applicable in New Brunswick.

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Civil Liability of Rating Agencies

Jonathan S. Sack & Kefira R. Wilderman

The Dodd-Frank Act greatly increases rating agencies' potential liability under the securities laws. One impact is almost certain: In the future, rating agencies are unlikely to fare as well in the courts as they have in the past.

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Developments in Distressed Lending

Fredric Sosnick, Jill Frizzley & Robert Britton

Recently, in <i>In re TOUSA Inc.</i> and <i>In re Capmark Fin. Group Inc.</i>, secured lenders have received, as part of their adequate protection package, the right to obtain principal paydowns during a bankruptcy case.

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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b> Ninth Circuit Grants Stay of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Injunction

Amanda Bronstad

A federal appeals court on Oct. 20 granted the government's emergency motion for a temporary stay of a worldwide injunction barring enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell," the military's ban on openly gay service members.

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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b> Ninth Circuit Grants Stay of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Injunction Image

<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b> Ninth Circuit Grants Stay of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Injunction

Amanda Bronstad

A federal appeals court on Oct. 20 granted the government's emergency motion for a temporary stay of a worldwide injunction barring enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell," the military's ban on openly gay service members.

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Highlights from the latest insurance cases from around the country.

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ERISA Deference: No Exceptions

Joseph Geoghegan & Dennis O. Brown

With its 2010 decision of <i>Conkright v. Frommert</i>, the Supreme Court has once again opted to resist a proposed carve-out to the general rule of deference to ERISA plan administrators &mdash; this time in situations where an administrator's first attempt to construe an ERISA plan has been held by the reviewing court to be unreasonable.

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NJ Court Clarifies Policyholders' Right to Recover Out-of-State Coverage Counsel Fees

Sherilyn Pastor, Gregory Horowitz & Stephanie Platzman-Diamant

According to the New Jersey Supreme Court in <i>Myron Corp. v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.</i>, a policyholder's right to recover counsel fees extends even to those fees incurred defending against an insurer-initiated, out-of-state declaratory judgment action.

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Japan's Proposed Deregulation

Stanley Kolodziejczak & Nancy Regan

It has recently been reported that the Japan Ministry of Justice has decided to revise its Practicing Attorney Law to allow a foreign law firm to conduct its law practice in Japan through a Legal Professional Corporation. These revisions may be submitted to the Extraordinary Diet session this autumn for introduction in 2012.

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Eckert Seamans Hires Business Development Director

Zack Needles

Eckert Seamans Cherin &amp; Mellott CEO Timothy P. Ryan makes no bones about the fact that not all of his firm's attorneys were born with the sales gene. Here's how the firm solved the problem.

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