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Pressure is building on federal, state and local governments to reconsider the criminal laws regarding marijuana and to allow interests as diverse as medical research, business entrepreneurs, and tax authorities to benefit from the new legal marijuana industry.
International investigations are now commonplace for many white-collar criminal defense lawyers and, very often, these investigations will implicate foreign data privacy regimes, both entrenched and emerging.
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Two recent decisions demonstrate how courts are applying the so-called safe harbor provisions contained in the Bankruptcy Code to a variety of different factual circumstances.
Features
The Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that unamortized interest associated with original issue discount originating from a fair market value exchange constitutes an allowed bankruptcy claim.
Columns & Departments
A look at a key case from Virginia.
Columns & Departments
In-depth analysis of a recent important ruling.
Features
Although a shareholder cause of action for fraud on the market is a civil claim, it is one that often follows criminal claims brought against a corporation and/or its officers or employees. Therefore, the outcome in the U.S. Supreme Court case, <I>Halliburton v. Erica P. John Fund</I>, discussed herein, should be of interest to attorneys concentrating their practices in the field of business crimes.
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Following a nearly two-year investigation that began as Dewey & LeBoeuf spiraled toward death, its former chairman, Steven Davis; its former executive director, Stephen DiCarmine; and its ex-chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, were accused on March 6 of "concocting and overseeing a massive effort to cook the books" at the firm.
Features
Entertainment trade publications often compile special issues and sections that include tribute ads commemorating celebrated individuals and events. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in on the practice in the context of free speech regarding an ad in a special issue of the consumer imprint <i>Sports Illustrated</i>.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of Washington's publicity rights law in a trademark dispute over the rights to singer and guitarist Jimi Hendrix's name and likeness.
