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Changing Demographics, The EEOC, and National Origin Discrimination Image

Changing Demographics, The EEOC, and National Origin Discrimination

Paul Kehoe

The EEOC has included "Protecting Immigrant, Migrant and Other Vulnerable Workers" as a priority. Here's what you need to know.

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Ex Parte Communication with a Physician

Lori G. Cohen & Marcella C. Ducca

Learning and following each state's local requirements for ex parte contact is key in order to avoid legal and ethical issues in the future.

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Fifty Years Later: A New Wave of Thalidomide Litigation

Michael D. Brophy

The scourge of birth defects from Thalidomide in the 1950s and 1960s remains one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters ever. And now there's a wave of new litigation.

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Judicial Scrutiny of 'Other Insurance' Clauses

Spiro K. Bantis & Daniel W. London

In this article, the authors contrast the so-called minority approach to differing "other insurance" clauses with the approach generally described as the majority rule.

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Prior Agreement Bars Termination of Song Rights

Brendan Pierson

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that music publisher EMI can keep the rights to the 1934 hit song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" for another 25 years.

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Pre-Fall Health Influences Recovery <br>Court Calls for Better Disaster Plans to Protect Disabled

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NEW JERSEY: Pre-Nup Says Payments Are Not Alimony: Bankruptcy Court Disagrees<br>CONNECTICUT: Suit Challenges State's Alimony Law on Constitutional Grounds

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Case Notes

David R. Geiger

MA Federal Court Holds 'Economic Loss Doctrine' Does Not Bar Claim for Breach of Implied Warranty

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