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At 100, mutual funds’ appeal growing

8 Jul 2024, 10:00 am by Gerry W. Beyer

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the mutual fund, a versatile investment vehicle that has significantly facilitated middle-class Americans' access to diverse investment opportunities such as stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, and foreign markets. [read post]

Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog - https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/

SEC Files Settled Charges Based on Alleged Cybersecurity-Related Control Deficiencies

8 Jul 2024, 6:25 am by Kevin LaCroix

” The Republican Commissioners’ Separate Statement In a separate sharply worded June 18, 2024 statement, SEC Commissioners Hester Pierce and Mark Uyeda criticized the Commission for “treating Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(B)’s internal accounting control provision as a Swiss Army Statute to compel issuers to adopt policies and procedures the Commission believes prudent. [read post]

The D & O Diary - http://www.dandodiary.com/

Labor Law §565 (2) (e) excludes from employment services rendered for a governmental entity by a person in a major nontenured policymaking or advisory position

8 Jul 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Finally, "it is within the exclusive province of the Board to evaluate evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom, and the Board is the final arbiter of witness credibility" (Matter of Fraternal Order of Eagles [Commissioner of Labor], 209 AD3d 1067, 1068 [3d Dept 2022[*2]] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]; see Matter of Kramer [RTTemps, LLC-Commissioner of Labor], 202 AD3d 1230, 1231-1232 [3d Dept 2022]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Labor Law §565 (2) (e) excludes from employment services rendered for a governmental entity by a person in a major nontenured policymaking or advisory position

8 Jul 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Finally, "it is within the exclusive province of the Board to evaluate evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom, and the Board is the final arbiter of witness credibility" (Matter of Fraternal Order of Eagles [Commissioner of Labor], 209 AD3d 1067, 1068 [3d Dept 2022[*2]] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]; see Matter of Kramer [RTTemps, LLC-Commissioner of Labor], 202 AD3d 1230, 1231-1232 [3d Dept 2022]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Should I register my mark? Yes!

8 Jul 2024, 5:43 am by James B. Astrachan

My bud correctly pointed out that a trademark acquires common law rights as soon as […] The post Should I register my mark? [read post]

On the Record - http://thedailyrecord.com/ontherecord/

[Eugene Volokh] Court Rejects Allegedly Anti-Zionist Professors' Claims That University Should Have Stopped Jewish Professors from Filing Religious Discrimination Complaints Against Them

8 Jul 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

" Heim v Daniel, 81 F.4th 212, 231 (2d Cir. 2023) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Early Edition: July 8, 2024

8 Jul 2024, 4:58 am by Beatrice Yahia

Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Adam Smith (D-WA), Mark Takano (D-CA), and Joe Morelle (D-NY), according to two sources. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

Precedential No. 14: TTAB Affirms Two Expungement Decisions Based on Nonuse of SMARTLOCK for Evaporative Air Coolers

8 Jul 2024, 4:35 am

The identification should leave no doubt that the mark refers only to the component or ingredient and not to the entire product. [read post]

The TTABlog - http://thettablog.blogspot.com/

“A Death Squad Ruling”: The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court’s Immunity Decision

8 Jul 2024, 3:00 am by jonathanturley

However, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of democracy’s death are greatly exaggerated. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

UK Labour Party Proposes New Legal Landscape: Implications for Employment Law

7 Jul 2024, 10:00 pm