business law news articles 2018

The NLRB Finds Unlawful Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements: Non-Disparagement, Non-Disclosure, Non-Allowed

30/12/2024despairLeave a Comment

On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) continued its aggressive application of the National Labor Relations Act (“Act” or “NLRA”) to workplaces without union representation and lessened the value of severance agreements for all employers by finding it unlawful for an employer to merely proffer a severance agreement that includes […]

Man shot by Indianapolis police in grandmother’s driveway files legal demand

16/12/2024despairLeave a Comment

The city of Indianapolis and its police department have been sent a legal demand for financial compensation by a man who says officers shot him multiple times at the same time they were asking him to put his hands up. Anthony Maclin was hit three times by gunfire from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers while […]

Kanye West’s ex-lawyers finally found him after months of trying to tell him they quit

08/12/2024despairLeave a Comment

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is seen on November 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.MEGA/GC Images/Getty Images Lawyers who represented Ye — aka Kanye West — finally found him after months of trying. They handed him a judge’s order explaining they quit and he had to find new attorneys. Ye has several pending lawsuits […]

Kanye West’s former lawyers finally track him down

01/12/2024despairLeave a Comment

Kanye West’s former attorneys have finally tracked down the elusive artist and cut ties with him, even as he faces a slew of lawsuits, according to reports. Many companies and business partners severed ties with the West amid his racist and antisemitic behavior last fall, but his lawyers had to serve him with legally required […]

What three luxury homes reveal about who owns UK property

18/09/2024despairLeave a Comment

Stylised graphic showing Beechwood House, Lubov Chernukhin and Alisher Usmanov Owners of around 50,000 UK properties held by foreign companies remain hidden from public view, despite new transparency laws. The Register of Overseas Entities, launched in August 2022, was meant to reveal who ultimately owns UK property. But analysis by BBC News and Transparency International […]

100 Industry Organizations Request Extension of Comment Period on FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Ban

01/09/2024despairLeave a Comment

As we predicted, earlier today, 100 industry organizations submitted a request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to extend the comment period for its proposed rule banning non-competes nationwide by an additional 60 days. According to the letter, “[t]he regulated community should be given sufficient time to assess the potential consequences of the rulemaking and […]

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT: A BARRIER TO PUBLIC HEALTH?

28/08/2024despairLeave a Comment

“With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed The virus has now spread over the globe, causing tremendous physical, financial and social breakdown on every continent, nation, state, province and individual. This terrible predicament has come from the spread of the catastrophic and disastrous corona virus disease. […]

‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case | Texas

14/08/2024despairLeave a Comment

In April 1999, John Balentine, a Black man on trial for murder in Amarillo, Texas, sat before an all-white jury as they deliberated whether he should live or die. Should he be given a life sentence, in which case he would probably end his days behind prison bars? Or should they send him to death […]