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16 May 2017, 7:01 am by Matthew Kahn
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, May 16 at 9:30am: At the Brookings Institution, the Center for Middle East Policy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will co-host a discussion on Elections in Iran: Prospects for Rouhani, reform, and the nuclear deal featuring Mehdi Khalaji, Suzanne Maloney, and Karim Sadjadpour. [read post]
9 May 2017, 6:54 pm by WOLFGANG DEMINO
 Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the CFPB is authorized to take action against institutions engaged in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices, or that otherwise violate federal consumer financial laws like the Truth in Lending Act. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 4:36 am by Edith Roberts
Massachusetts, which asks whether a criminal defendant must show prejudice when his counsel’s deficient performance leads to “structural error” in his trial. [read post]
14 Apr 2017, 6:01 am by Jim Sedor
MassachusettsMassachusetts Judge Upholds Ban on Corporate Contributions to PoliticiansMassLive.com – Shira Schoenberg | Published: 4/6/2017 A Massachusetts law banning corporations from making political donations survived a legal challenge on when a judge ruled against two local business owners seeking to overturn the restriction. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  We hear from a cross-section of participants in their own words—from the Pennsylvania Antifederalist who reported that the only ratificationists in one county were “half-pay officers, Cincinnati, attorneys-at-law, public defaulters and Jews,” to the Massachusetts Federalist who defined anti-federalism as “anarchy, confusion, rebellion, treason, sacrilege, and rapine. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 6:03 am
Berger, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, on Thursday, March 30, 2017 Tags: Boards of Directors, Controlling shareholders, Delaware law, Derivative suits, DGCL, Fiduciary duties, Massachusetts, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, State law The Investor Stewardship Group: An Inflection Point in U.S. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 12:18 pm by June Casey
Thursday, April 13, 2017 at noon, with lunchHarvard Law School WCC 2019 Milstein West A/B  (Directions)1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge   About James Forman, Jr. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 11:54 am by eputsche
California’s law bans the sale of eggs from hens kept in cages too small for them to stand up, lie down, or turn around, but Massachusetts is the first state to ban the sale of meat products as well as eggs from animals confined in this manner. [read post]
19 Mar 2017, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
The Copyright Ownership Battle in American Physics”Profit and Reform in the American Progressive Era     Chair: Vicki Howard, University of Essex     Discussant: Rosanne Currarino, Queen's University (Canada)         Daniel Platt, Brown University    "Profit and 'Reputable Capital' in the Usury Reform Movement,… [read post]
When it comes to government actions, that proof is often obtained by leveraging laws like the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records laws—except when government officials seek to ignore the rules to suppress evidence. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 3:00 pm by Barbara Rea
Hallmarks of his administration included the reduction of a $3 billion deficit and the institution of a major health-care reform initiative providing near-universal insurance for Massachusetts residents. [read post]
19 Feb 2017, 4:02 pm by INFORRM
The same paper has published an opinion piece by Patrick Smyth calling for reform to defamation laws in Ireland, describing them as “financially onerous, oppressive and unpredictable. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 9:27 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Aug. 2, 2005) (copyright law does not protect a plaintiff's creation of the word "autoupolstrykits. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 8:31 am by June Casey
He is a frequent and seasoned speaker having spoken on securities law topics at SEC programs, Princeton University’s Bendheim Center for Finance, the Practicing Law Institute, ICI, SIFMA, MFA, the Saudi Central Bank, the New York City Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the ACA Compliance Group and others. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
California, Massachusetts, and Nevada passed measures allowing for recreational use. [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 6:45 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law is also home to a stellar Center on National Security and the Law, sponsoring events related to technology and cybersecurity.The new Institute for Technology Law and Policy will bolster Georgetown Law’s curricular offerings, which include more than 50 courses such as Coding for Lawyers, classes on cybersecurity and intellectual property, and a privacy law and technology practicum that pairs Georgetown… [read post]
” (Courtesy of CSPI) Jacobson, 73, who holds a doctorate in microbiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founded CSPI with two other scientists. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 10:45 am by June Casey
They wrestle with questions regarding the doctor-patient relationship and defaults in healthcare while engaging with larger, timely questions of healthcare reform. [read post]