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While all retail leases pose an array of issues to the landlords and tenants involved, retail leases relating to restaurants pose certain other issues that must be addressed in order to avoid surprise costs, liabilities, and delays. This article addresses several of those issues that relate to restaurant leases in a shopping center setting (either in a food court or as an outparcel location), including trash removal, pest and rodent control, parking, and exclusive uses.
Lawyers representing enterprises with complex information systems generating and storing vast amounts of data are familiar with the perils of e-Discovery. If this familiarity did not arise before Dec. 1, 2006, it certainly arrived with the e-discovery clarifications and codifications to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ('FRCP') that took effect on Dec. 1, 2006. Given the implications of these rules for compliance, it is imperative that businesses accelerate and elevate their planning for how to address every phase of electronic discovery ' identification and preservation, collection, processing, analysis and production. Unfortunately, dealing with these issues is not as simple as shopping for software packages or asking a consultant to apply industry best practices to the company's electronically stored information ('ESI') procedures. This article spells out a rational, comprehensive plan for achieving e-discovery preparation.
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Employers of all sizes use third-party consumer reporting agencies to conduct background investigations such as credit, criminal, education and employment background checks. Such investigations are labor-intensive, costly and require specialized knowledge (especially if the employer has a multi-state presence). Therefore, a third-party vendor is the natural choice for outsourcing such a task. However, employers should beware that outsourcing the background check process does not automatically insulate the employer from liability when it relies on the information in a report. Using such third party reports places the employer squarely within the myriad of requirements under the Fair Credit Reporting Act ('FCRA'). 15 U.S.C. ' 1681.
This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some amendments to state business entity laws that went into effect during the last three months. It also reviews a recent Delaware Supreme Court decision dealing with the right of public stockholders to bring a direct suit, and a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision dealing with the court's jurisdiction over an LLC member's derivative claim for ejectment.
In March of this year, Chiquita Brands agreed to pay a $25 million criminal fine for payments it made to a paramilitary group in Colombia. The payments were made by the Colombian subsidiary of Chiquita in order to protect the company's employees from threatened violence. Unfavorable press coverage emphasized payments by Chiquita to a 'terrorist group' and downplayed the threats made to Chiquita, which prompted it to make the payments in the first place.
In Part One of this article, we discussed the fact that whistleblowing in France is a rather unwelcome legal obligation. France's total opposition to whistleblowing has softened over time and has been accompanied by a greater understanding and appreciation of its implications. Nevertheless, strong pervasive principles of French law continue to govern this domain. We referred out readers to a recent report on Whistleblowing and Ethical Charters, which was commissioned by the French Minister of State for Employment and Professional Insertion. The Antonmatt'i-Vivien report was aimed at encouraging the analysis and clarification of this grey area of French law. We continue this month with a look at how whistleblowing is implemented in France.
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Each year, the federal government spends several hundred billion dollars to obtain goods and services from corporations and other nongovernmental entities. Under the critical eye of the nation's taxpayers, the federal government has amplified its own scrutiny of the ethics and integrity of its procurement officers and those companies with which it contracts. Via new national legislation and investigative initiatives, the attention of Capitol Hill and federal law enforcement offices across the nation is keenly focused on the prevention, detection and punishment of procurement fraud. It is a brand new day ' and a potentially dark one for the unwary governmental contractor.
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With this issue, Richard M. Cooper retires as Chairman of the Board of Editors of <i>Business Crimes Bulletin</i>.
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines establish factors that a court is authorized to consider in imposing a sentence upon a criminal defendant, and assign numeric values to those factors in an effort to achieve some consistency in sentencing. Though the factors mostly stay the same, their precise parameters are constantly evolving. One evolving factor is the 'abuse of trust' or 'use of special skill' enhancement, described in the Guidelines under ' 3B1.3.
Policing the marketing of drugs and devices was once primarily the preserve of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which focused on misleading labels and outright quackery. No longer. Nowadays, many federal investigations, worked jointly by the FDA, Department of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS), are fueled by the enormous financial recoveries that can be won from manufacturers accused of illegally promoting FDA-approved drugs or devices, bearing an FDA-approved label, for uses not approved by the FDA ('off-label' uses).
