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3 Feb 2015, 12:50 pm
They still fight banning asbestos in the United States and refuse to make public where asbestos is present, where it was used and where it is imported. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 8:24 pm
Also in June last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously approved a parallel project “[r]equest[ing] the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue the work on domestic law remedies to address corporate involvement in gross human rights abuses, and to organize consultations with experts, States and other relevant stakeholders”. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 2:33 pm
The approach was rebuffed, and United Kingdom takeover rules—both companies have London listings—forbid Glencore from making any further overtures for the following six months. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 1:45 pm
The Permian Basin is on its way to becoming the most productive oil play in the United States. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 10:03 pm
This, the company states, gives its milk a much longer shelf life when it’s unopened. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 12:31 pm
In an interesting and uncommon intersection between securities law, curbing human rights abuses and freedom of speech under the First Amendment, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently agreed to re-consider whether the SEC can require companies to disclose whether their products contain “conflict minerals. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 4:45 pm
Blood transfusions – The process of transferring blood or blood-based products from one person into the circulatory system of another. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 11:00 pm
A farmer in Tunisia, for example, is going to be facing different challenges than a farmer in China or in the United States. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 5:51 am
A few days ago, Politico reported the following terms of a settlement: The U.S. and Indonesia submitted papers with the WTO on Friday to terminate the dispute; in exchange for keeping the ban in place, the United States agreed to do the following: -- Consider giving duty-free treatment to imports of insulated ignition wiring sets from Indonesia under a lapsed tariff-cutting program for developing nations known as the Generalized System of Preferences. -- Postpone a… [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 12:20 pm
Two particularly perfidious myths perpetrated by the asbestos litigation industry is that crocidolite was not used in the United States, and that chrysotile is as potent in causing mesothelioma as is crocidolite. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 7:13 am
The UNEP noted that western countries (United States and Western Europe) which have adopted this approach, ended up having tighter regulatory controls and adopted end-of pipe ESTs by industry. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 3:14 am
Conflict Minerals: NAM Argues Against En Banc Rehearing Here’s a blog from Steve Quinlivan (and here’s a related one from Ning Chiu): Earlier, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the appellants in the conflict minerals case, NAM et al, to file a response to the SEC’s and Amnesty International’s petition for an en banc rehearing. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 4:54 pm
Saudi Arabia’s oil and natural gas operations are dominated by Saudi Aramco, the national oil and gas company and the world’s largest oil company in terms of production. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 2:57 am
Moving onto the big three drug chains in the United States, while both CVS and Walgreens disclose all the “supplement facts” for their vitamins, Rite Aid does not. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 10:59 am
The DOI-OIG may then refer the case to the United States Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution, which in turn may bring the matter before a grand jury to seek an indictment. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 10:59 am
The DOI-OIG may then refer the case to the United States Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution, which in turn may bring the matter before a grand jury to seek an indictment. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 12:31 am
The United States’ court system has a clear hierarchy, and lower courts are obliged to follow the decisions of the Supreme Court. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 10:12 am
The Court observed that “the ‘primary legal consequence’ of pooling” is “that production anywhere on a pooled unit is treated as production on every tract in the unit. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 3:48 am
United States Department of Agriculture, to consider whether rational basis review can apply to compelled disclosures even if they serve interests other than preventing deception. [read post]
30 May 2014, 8:23 am
Corporate law scholars cannot be indifferent to the horrific consequences – from a contribution to rapes and violent incidents from trade in conflict minerals in the DRC to the killing of workers due to poor conditions in garment manufacturing units in Bangladesh. [read post]
