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BusinessWeek
May 8, 2008
Jon Fine |
Can Craigslist Stay Oddball? Craigslist was never into maximizing profits. A scrap with eBay may change things.   |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Fights the Tax Man Can New York make the e-tail giant slap a sales tax on customers? |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Banc Of America Dishes Out $10 Million For Fiduciary Violations Banc of America Investment Services Inc. settles charges that it failed to disclose that it favored mutual funds affiliated with the firm. |
Reason
May 2008
Brian Doherty |
Need to Know If the state secrets privilege is not applied carefully, the government can use it as a tool for cover-up, by withholding evidence that is not actually sensitive. |
Reason
May 2008
David Weigel |
Downloading Lies The Motion Picture Association of America admits that movie piracy figures presented to Congress in its 2005 report, leading to stricter controls of Ethernet use at American universities, were seriously flawed. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Marie Leone |
Patents under Pressure The battle over business-method patents heads to court in what may be a landmark decision. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Avital Louria Hahn |
An Epilogue to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy sales rise as the credit crunch makes reorganization more difficult. |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2008 |
Former Gunnallen Broker Accused of a Ponzi Seven investors who say they were the victims of a Ponzi scheme by a former GunnAllen rep have filed an arbitration claim against the Tampa firm. |
Reason
April 2008
Radley Balko |
Forfeiture Folly The courts have been steadily mitigating the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000's impact, both by narrowly interpreting the protections it grants defendants and by being overly deferential to prosecutors when determining if they've met the new evidentiary standard. |
Reason
April 2008
David Weigel |
Bright Idea President Bush approves a mandate that all light bulbs consume 25 percent less energy by the year 2012, effectively banning the traditional, incandescent light bulb. |
Reason
April 2008
Radley Balko |
Silencing the Dead Is an attorney released from the attorney-client privilege after his client dies? In North Carolina, the answer apparently is yes -- but only if it helps prosecutors. |
Reason
April 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Medical Speech As a 1997 law expires, the FDA is mulling a plan allowing companies to disseminate unabridged reprints of "truthful and non-misleading" medical journal articles describing "off-label" uses of approved medications to physicians. |
Reason
April 2008
Greg Beato |
I'm With Stupid Slogans on t-shirts are a vivid reminder that free speech is woven into the fabric of our culture. |
Registered Rep.
April 4, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Former Bear Broker Gets Okay From Judge A Bear Stearns broker is free to take his clients with him to his new digs at Morgan Stanley, a Massachusetts judge ruled today. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
John Churchill |
The Failure Chain Consider the curious and rather grotesque case of Gary J. Gross, a financial advisor from Boca Raton, Fla. Gross' U4 is close to 100 pages long, and lists 35 customer complaints. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Kirk Teska |
What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web? Web sites and bloggers beware: copyright law applies to you too. |
CRM
April 1, 2008
Christopher Musico |
Labor Disputes Reach The Contact Center Pending lawsuits filed against AT&T and other companies over unpaid contact center wages could change the traditional value model. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 27, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Patent Issues a Growing Concern for Banks Unfortunately for the banking industry, legal wrangling around financial services patents is becoming all too common. |
MyBusiness
Apr/May 2008
Geoff Williams |
Coping With Copycats Taking legal action against imitating enterprises is an option, but it will mostly be your word against theirs without proper documentation. |
MyBusiness
Apr/May 2008 |
NFIB Wins for Small Business Small Business Legal Center scores key victories in New Jersey and Florida. |
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