
Advisory: Supreme Court Adopts "Nerve Center Test" to Determine a Company's "Principal Place of Business" in Diversity Jurisdiction Matters
March 2010 - After decades of dissonance between the Circuit Courts of Appeal, the US Supreme Court finally stepped in and unanimously ruled that, for purposes of federal diversity jurisdiction, a company's "principal place of business" is where the corporation's high level officers "direct, control...
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Newsletter: FCPA News and Insights (February 2010)
March 2010 - We invite you to read the 2009 year-end edition of
FCPA News and Insights, covering recent developments on FCPA and global anti-corruption enforcement, litigation, and compliance developments.
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Advisory: An End to the "English Loser Pays" Rule in Personal Injury Litigation?
March 2010 - Most businesses have an interest in the costs of personal injury litigation. All sorts of people, employees as well as customers, have accidents and trip and slip in all sorts of places. People using or exposed to products marketed by others can suffer injury which may or may not be caused...
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Advisory: EPA Seeks to Disclose More Chemical Identity Information
March 2010 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) has begun making two important changes concerning the way the Agency intends to deal with claims of confidentiality regarding the identities of chemicals in commerce. The changes could affect companies who submit...
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