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Investment Advisor
July 2009
Lewis Schiff |
Watch Out Some common traps in determining intellectual property rights.   |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2009
Safarian, Choi & Grant |
Carveout Consequences Learn how the courts rule on non-recourse loan provisions. |
Reason
July 2009
Radley Balko |
The Unrepentant D.A. Prosecutorial error in Santa Clara |
Reason
July 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Follow-Up: Bush-Era Porn Prosecution Ends in Guilty Plea When Robert Zicari and Janet Romano were accused of distributing obscene material in 2003, it was the first time in more than a decade that the federal government had prosecuted anyone for producing pornography involving adults. |
Reason
July 2009
Nancy Rommelmann |
Anatomy of a Child Pornographer What happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense. |
Reason
July 2009
Jesse Walker |
The Blurry Boundaries of Child Porn Not every illicit image is equally offensive. |
Reason
July 2009
Nick Gillespie |
The Prehistory of Porn Prosecution How "licentious Gotham" gave rise to today's obscenity laws is explained in a new book by Donna Dennis. |
Reason
July 2009
Shawn Macomber |
Stripping Away Free Expression A Pennsylvania town tries -- and fails -- to ban a form of exercise. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Johnson & Johnson Inflames Abbott $1.67 billion is one hefty reward. |
| AskMen.com |
Madoff Gets 150 Years Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might imitate his fraud and to victims who need relief. |
Food Engineering
June 28, 2009 |
Tech Flash Vol. 5 No. 12 -- Food Engineering's E-Newsletter IT innovations... PACK EXPO 2010... Appeals court upholds ban on genetically engineered alfalfa... Cookie dough recall... Soft drinks and health... |
U.S. Banker
July 2009
Robert Barba |
Such Language! First State Bank of Winchester, IL, is negotiating the terms of a cease-and-desist order with regulators. |
BusinessWeek
June 25, 2009
Roben Farzad |
Big Game Asset Hunters It's boom times for the asset-forfeiture experts who reclaim ill-gotten gains from Ponzi schemes and other frauds. |
Registered Rep.
June 22, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Madoff Had Help Running His Fraud, Says SEC The SEC today indicted four individuals for helping Bernie Madoff in his colossal Ponzi scheme. One of the individuals was a registered rep and a second was an investment advisor. |
Information Age
June 17, 2009
Pete Swabey |
Compliance pain is Open Text's gain Open Text expanding rapidly on the back of booming demand for compliance technologies |
Nursing
July 2009
Penny S. Brooke |
Legally speaking...When can you say NO? As a nurse, accepting responsibilities that are beyond the scope of your license or skill level can have serious consequences for you, your patients, and your nursing career. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2009
Toby Shute |
Coeur Scores a Supreme Victory Precious metals miner Coeur d'Alene emerges victorious from a contentious legal spat. |
Registered Rep.
June 22, 2009
John Churchill |
Sir Allen Stanford Indicted Allen Stanford, the flamboyant 59-year-old billionaire CEO of the Stanford Group Companies was indicted Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit securities, mail and wire fraud. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The RIAA's Win Is Yet Another Loss Another courtroom "victory" makes the music suits even more like Kobe Bryant. |
ifeminists
June 16, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
A travesty of sex offender status Apparently, the annual World Naked Bike Ride in Boulder is an event intended primarily to protest oil dependency and to spotlight the vulnerability of cyclists on the road. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
Agrochemical firms in patent battle BASF and DuPont are squaring up for a battle over technology that makes plants resistant to commonly used herbicides. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2009
David Geracioti |
ARS Games -- SEC Blames Firms, Settles with BAC, RBC and DEUTSCHE When the auction rate securities market froze up in February 2008, angry clients blamed their financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
SEC Gives Investors a Voice. Will It Be Heard? Chances are the Securities and Exchange Commission announcement about its newly created Investor Advisory Committee will get plenty of eye rolls. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2009
Handler & Lothes |
Incentive Trusts Don't Provide The Best Motivation Incentive trusts attempt to encourage (or discourage) certain behaviors by making distributions dependent on certain benchmarks or accomplishments. |
Information Today
June 2009
K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy. |
MyBusiness
Jun/Jul 2009
Elizabeth Milito |
Rule of Law As health care costs continue to rise, many small business owners are looking for ways to cut costs. Be careful. |
Reason
June 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Cell Blocks for Cell Hacks If you misplace your keys, no law prohibits you from picking the lock on your car. But if you try to get past the lock on your cell phone, you could be fined or even jailed. |
Reason
June 2009
Ezra Levant |
The Internet Saved My Tongue The former publisher of the Western Standard, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, discusses the aftermath of the publication's story which printed three satirical cartoons featuring the prophet Muhammad. |
IndustryWeek
May 29, 2009
Jill Jusko |
Battles Rage on Many Fronts to Curtail Counterfeiting and Piracy Annual review by USTR shows both progress and backsliding. Concern over Canada grows. |
Home Theater
May 28, 2009 |
Court Nixes Cable Apartment Exclusives Do you live in an apartment building served by cable? If so, you're probably resigned to your local cable operator having a monopoly. But the U.S. Court of Appeals says that's not the way it has to be. |
U.S. Banker
June 2009
Cheyenne Hopkins |
Back on the Docket Several Supreme Court justices during oral arguments on a key preemption case appeared to support the Office of Comptroller of the Currency's ability to enforce laws exclusively at national banks. |
U.S. Banker
June 2009
Davies & Marquez-Garrett |
Financial Misconduct Is Not Just a Civil Matter The FBI is shifting more than $75 million in resources from counterterrorism work to help sort through what has been characterized as "the wreckage of the financial meltdown," and financial industry professionals are bracing themselves for the newest wave of recourse: criminal prosecution. |
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