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10 Jan 2009, 8:51 am
" • Walmart, the nation's leading retailer, lowered its fourth quarter earnings estimates. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 7:00 am
Riches, McKenzie & Herbert LLP (Canadian Trademark Blog) Canadian Private Copying Collective and Best Buy resolve private copying dispute (Michael Geist) 200,000 pirated DVDs confiscated in GTA mall raids; Industry group behind 2-month operation suspects 'hard-core' retailers are linked to organized crime (ContentAgenda) After successfully battling Kraft before Supreme Court, Euro-Excellence settles with Kraft in copyright battle over parallel importation of chocolates… [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 6:09 am
I’ve reference the National Retail Federation’s cheery holiday shopping statistics so I thought they would be a good candidate for a report card: http://www.nrf.com/ Overview: The National Retail Federation NRF represents an industry with more than 1.6 million U.S. retail companies, more than 25 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2007… [read post]
USTR in 2008 Report to Congress On China's WTO Compliance: Still Not Satisfied After All These Years
7 Jan 2009, 3:53 am
Small retail shops continue to be the major commercial outlets for pirated movies and music (and a variety of counterfeit goods). [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 6:49 pm
But a settlement of a cyberspace lawsuit in a major case on the issue pending in Federal Court stands to set a precedent with far reaching implications for the hotel industry as well as the nation's retailers. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 6:02 pm
All you hear anymore is how we don’t want more government… And then the National Retail Federation, which claims to be the world’s largest retail organization, goes and asks for more government. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 12:42 am
The National Retail Foundation is proposing a sales tax holiday. [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 8:05 am
I have been skeptical of the National Retail Federation’s reports about holiday shopping. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 3:25 am
The retailers' group wants a tax-free program to apply to all goods subject to state sales tax, including apparel, home furnishings, restaurant dining and automobiles.Click here for the full story: [online.wsj.com] Also, click here for National Retail Federation's press release regarding the request: [www.nrf.com] [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 9:42 am
Yesterday the National Retail Federation published an open letter to President-to-be Barack Obama urging that come January, Obama's stimulus package should including a national "sales tax holiday," three ten-day periods in 2009 during which states that normally collect sales taxes on retail purchases would stop collecting them.A new Citizens for Tax Justice report takes the shine off this idea a bit, noting a few fairly important reasons… [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 8:12 am
Federal Ruling Highlights Open Question in 9th Circuit on Abandoned Trademarks
The National Law Journal
A federal judge has thrown out a claim by Grocery Outlet Inc. that Albertsons abandoned the Lucky stores trademark when Albertsons and Lucky stores merged in 1998. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 12:03 am
Although the SEC has also been at the forefront on several issues, such as insider trading, the states have consistently been in the vanguard of investor protection on the retail, consumer-facing, business conduct issues, Galvin said.Galvin expressed concern that any federal regulatory consolidation carried out in response to consolidation in the financial services industry will likely be deregulatory in nature. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 2:00 pm
I hate to break it to you National Retail Federation but people aren’t waiting. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 4:59 pm
The NARMS program monitors changes in antimicrobial drug susceptibilities of bacterial organisms in humans, animals, and retail meats to antimicrobial drugs important in human and animal medicine. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 12:11 pm
The EEOC enforces federal laws in the private and federal sectors prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age and disability. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 7:59 pm
Law firms are luring federal prosecutors and regulatory lawyers, plus several tenured law firm veterans.The slow exodus of federal regulators and prosecutors have continued with law firms picking up talent from the nation's capital. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 7:54 pm
Iceland nationalized its three largest banks after they amassed an estimated $61 billion in debt, which Bloomberg reports is 12 times the size of the country's economy. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 2:27 pm
The federal prison
population increased by 6,572 prisoners. [read post]
10 Dec 2008, 2:00 pm
Facing $2 billion in potential liability in a Minnesota wage-and-hour class action, the retailing giant has agreed to a $54.3 million settlement with a class of about 100,000 current and former Wal-Mart workers in the state. [read post]
6 Dec 2008, 5:52 pm
Before joining the academy, he served as litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision, and deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement. [read post]
