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11 May, 2008 4:32 pm
Was March National Privacy Month and no one told me? (October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, so don't try to hack anything.) In addition to a March 31, 2008 decision by the
D.C. Circuit holding that "actual damages" under the Privacy Act need not necessarily include pecuniary harm (blogged here by Lauren Gelman), the Northern District of California
affirmed the standing of a class action plaintiff to sue for negligence over a stolen laptop containing personally identifiable ...
9 Apr 8:34 am
... , 2006) (unpublished). That is why many took notice when, last year, in Ruiz v. Gap, Inc., 540 F.Supp.2d 1121 (N.D. Cal. 2008), ... motion to dismiss the negligence
claim. In Ruiz, a thief gained entry to the Chicago offices of Gap's job application processing vendor, Vangent, and stole two laptops. ... letter to the applicants whose
personal information was on the computer 11 days following the theft. Gap offered to provide the applicants with 12 months of credit monitoring with fraud assistance at no ...
11 Aug 12:00 am
Gap Inc. has inked a new franchise agreement that will yield new Gap stores in Thailand. Armin Systems Limited, a retailer in Thailand, has been designated as
licensee and will open the first Gap location in Bangkok in ... sizable network, the company is looking to emerging regions to help buoy sales as the recession has curbed
spending in the United States. The Gap clearly understands the importance of spreading internationally and getting its name out to more and more areas. On the other hand, ...
19 Sep, 2007 10:44 pm
... raid in foreign waters? French label Zadig & Voltaire has sued Gap, Inc., for allegedly copying Z&V's "Tunisien" T-shirt ... reported the dispute, perhaps the
most interesting is this one. It reads like an internal memo from Gap, with headings including "situation," "objectives," "audience," and "tactics." The "strategy" is to argue
that "[n ... look for a publicity blitz any minute now. Pirate ship or battleship, has Gap sprung a leak? Many thanks to both the gracious Frederic Glaize of Le petit ...
22 Jan, 2007 10:34 pm
Gap Inc. announced that CEO Paul Pressler will step down from his position as president and chief executive officer of the company, as well as resign his seat on the
company's board, effective immediately. Pursuant to the Employment Agreement between Gap Inc. and Paul Pressler, Pressler is eligible for up to approximately $14 million
associated with [...]
22 Jan 6:09 am
Michelle Banks, the general counsel of The Gap Inc. summarized at a recent panel four cost-management steps she has taken lately. I quote from the ACC Docket, Vol. 30,
Dec. 2008 at 27. The Gap is "asking its outside firms to provide staffing plans and budgets and increasingly holding them to ... firms and their replacement by mid-size or
smaller firms. Her stronger point, even, is that the Gap tries to be more selective about whether to use any law firm at all. As a third step, Banks ...
23 Jan, 2007 4:32 am
From the Wall Street Journal (subscription required): When Gap Inc. and Paul Pressler parted ways yesterday, it wasn't because the CEO hadn't repaired the balance sheet or
wasn't a popular leader. It was partly...
8 Feb, 2007 6:20 am
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litigation readiness services, today announced the official launch of its ... ). This new web portal is dedicated to supporting the emerging role of Technology Counsel and the legal
practitioners who are bridging the gap between law and information technology (IT). TechnologyCounsel.org offers the latest news, trends, research, legal ...
29 Sep, 2008 12:08 pm
... C.A. No. 07C-09-102 RRC, declined to follow the holdings of Qualcomm, Inc. v. Certain Underwriters At Lloyd's, 161 Cal.App.4th 184 ... v. Massachusetts Bonding & Ins.
Co., which held that an insured can "fill the gap" where the insured settles for less than its full underlying limits. 23 F.2d ... those limits had to be made by the underlying
insurers or whether the insured could "fill the gap." The Second Circuit concluded that the latter approach was appropriate, ruling that to require actual payment ...
5 Feb 3:33 pm
... themselves with an even shorter end of the stick as they advance further in their careers. Paying attention to the wage gaps for lawyers is useful because of the unique
nature of the profession. First, the legal profession has experienced increased female participation for ... of the legal recruiting firm Miller Sabino & Lee, Inc. in San
Francisco. Stacy believes the lockstep pay structure for associates found in large firms makes the wage gap narrow early on in lawyers' careers. When asked to ...
12 Jun, 2007 9:53 am
... Supreme Court's recent opinion on directors' duties to creditors. This post discusses some gaps created by the case. Recall that Gheewalla tells us that directors of the
distressed (insolvent) firm are ... L.C. v. NCT Group, Inc., 863 A.2d 772, 795-96 (2004). I can see why. It would be nice to know. Gap 2--Pesky Bankruptcy Law ... part
because of their incentive effects on directors and potential plaintiffs, we have a gap. Unsecured creditors would have little incentive to pursue derivative claims if the ...
27 Feb, 2008 7:00 pm
... , 63%; and Hispanic women, 52%. What can be done to put an end to the wage gap? Dr. Evelyn Murphy, President of The Wage Project, Inc., considered this very question
in her book, Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What To Do ... down requires those in control to respond to wage disparities and make a concerted effort to close the
wage gap within their establishment. The outside in requires that we as a society make it socially unacceptable for employers to engage ...
12 Feb, 2008 6:00 am
In Gabana Gulf Distribution, Ltd. v. GAP Intern. Sales, Inc., 2008 WL 111223 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 9, 2008), the Court (Judge Charles R. Breyer) held that a UCL "unlawful" prong
claim may be predicated on violation of a ... , breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing): Because the Court has denied summary judgment to Gap on the breach
of covenant claim, summary judgment must also be DENIED as to the § 17200 claim because Gabana may use the covenant claim ...
19 Jun, 2007 3:33 am
... , specialized expertise, etc. Midrange firms are waking up to the succession issues they face and to what is increasingly referred to as the "gap". Firm leaders and
rainmakers are bunched together in the age range of 56 to 70. Their younger attorneys tend to ... their portable book, and don't expect them to hit the ground running.
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13 May, 2008 7:11 pm
... liability! ______________________________________________________________________________ At Griffith & Jacobson, LLC, we can help you address the "Kotecki Gap" and help
you identify many other similar issues in your every day business dealings that ... Ill.2d 155, 585 N.E.2d 1023 (1991). Other states will have similar decisions. In Illinois this
uninsured liability can be referred to as the "Kotecki gap." Virginia Surety Company, Inc. v. Northern Ins. Co. of New York, 224 Ill.2d 550, 866 N.E. ...
29 Sep, 2007 7:20 pm
... , Inc., which does business as Route 22 Toyota, is located at 109 Route 22 West Hillside; Route 22 Automobiles, Inc., which does business as Route 22 Honda, is located
at 105 Route 22 West, Hillside; and Route 22 Nissan is ... 1 Used bait and switch advertising (this means they falsely advertised vehicles for sale) 2 Misrepresented that many products
such as GAP coverage, extended service agreements, window etching, credit life insurance or credit life accident health and disability insurance were ...
1 Jun, 2004 10:15 am
Sorry for the gap in posting. I have been away and have not had access to reliable internet service. Not that much seems to have been happening in the Second Circuit over the
past week. Oh, yeah, there's D.A.S. Sand & Gravel, inc. v. Chao, in which a mine operated by petitioner was cited by the Department of Labor for multiple regulatory
violations under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977. The ...
10 Oct, 2007 10:56 am
... Obviousness Under 35 U.S.C. 103 in View of the Supreme Court Decision in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. (Guidelines) "to help USPTO examiners make appropriate
decisions regarding the obviousness of claimed inventions in light of the Supreme ... art may provide a basis for concluding that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art to bridge the gap. The rationales discussed below outline reasoning that may be applied to find obviousness in such cases. If the search of the ...
18 Sep, 2007 2:32 am
... excess policy would not be triggered until the underlying limits were exhausted by actual payment from the primary carrier. See Comerica Inc. v. Zurich American Ins. Co., No.
06-10353, 2007 WL 2178392 (E.D.Mich. July 27, 2007). A ... of losses from the primary carrier before the excess policy was triggered. The District Court held that the insured could not
"fill the gap" between the $14 million paid by the primary carrier and the $20 million in underlying limits. Because there was no exhaustion, ...
13 May, 2008 2:04 pm
... in Danvers, Massachusetts could have been avoided if ink manufacturer CAI Inc had implemented the proper safety measures at its factory. The safety board issued its findings
today in a final report. Although CAI and Arnel, Inc., a specialty paintmaker both ran the plant, the safety board is holding CAI accountable because the board says ... exist
between federal and state safety regulations and why these gaps need to be remedied. Safety board member William Wright said that the CAI should ...
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