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Can the owner of a business also be an employee?

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 7 2009

The question of whether a company's majority shareholder can also be an employee of the same company has come before the courts on a number of occasions, often in the context of an insolvent business and a claim being made to the National Insurance Fund

Damages

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 29 2009

Lawsuits arise for nearly as many reasons as there are plaintiffs

Third Circuit addresses standard for evaluating misappropriation of confidential information claims

  • Ogletree Deakins
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 2 2009

In this case, the defendant’s previous employer sued him, as well as his new employer, after learning that he had misappropriated product information which he then used to capture his former employer’s clients

Liability for failure to notify customer of departure of employee

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 27 2009

In the case of Fitzroy Robinson Limited v Mentmore Towers Limited, the High Court considered whether a service provider would be liable for failure to inform its client of an employee's inability to continue to take a key role in the provision of that service

NJ Supreme Court expands whistleblower law's coverage

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 27 2007

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently issued two opinions expanding the class of workers entitled to protection under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act ("CEPA"), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8, also known as New Jersey's "whistleblower" statute

Employment status of controlling shareholders

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 1 2008

Confusion has often arisen over whether or not a controlling shareholder of a company can also be an employee of that company

SEC, district court approve company’s exclusion of shareholder policy proposal

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2008

On April 22, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled that Apache Corporation could, pursuant to Rule 14a-8 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, reject the inclusion in its proxy statement of a shareholder proposal prohibiting the company from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity

Bill C-45 alert: sentence handed down in first OHS criminal negligence conviction

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 19 2008

On Monday, March 17, 2008, the court formally accepted the joint recommendation of the Crown and the Defence and fined Transpavé $100,000

Unwritten secrets are protectable under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2008

Addressing the issue of trade secret infringement, the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the appellate court’s decision holding that memorization and use of trade secret information belonging to a former employer constitutes trade secret infringement in accordance with the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Former employer’s suggestion to customers to refrain from doing business with alleged misappropriator not actionable as defamation

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 13 2008

In almost every trade secretrestrictive covenant dispute, a company whose trade secret information has been stolen must confront the possibility that its customers will be dragged into the dispute

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