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Employee wrongfully terminated for complaining about fraud

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2008

In Casella v. SouthWest Dealer Services, Inc., a California court of appeal affirmed a jury verdict for wrongful termination in violation of public policy against a company selling extended warranties

Federal Court permits corporate issue ads near an election

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2007

By a 2-1 vote in an opinion written by the highly respected Judge Sentelle, a special three-judge district court of the US District Court for the of Columbia held that corporations have a first Amendment right to fund “true issue ads” during elections, even though they mention candidates and thus fall within the definition of “electioneering communications” found in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002

Cases opened against Austria and Belgium for restricting free movement of students

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Austria, Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • January 26 2007

The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice to Austria and Belgium alleging restrictions of access to their higher education systems

Judicial review: reform proposals

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 4 2013

For those of you who have been on the receiving end of a judicial review (JR), you might have been heartened to hear press coverage about the Government

"Back-to-back" agreements

  • Cobbetts LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 19 2007

The use of so-called “back-to-back” agreements by local planning authorities seeking to enter into legally binding arrangements with development partners has been given the all clear by a recent decision of the House of Lords

Duties of care and section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 16 2008

Mr K tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a window while living in bed and breakfast accommodation

Public authorities for the purposes of the Human Rights Act?

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 1 2007

In the recent case of R (on the application of Johnson) v Havering London Borough CouncilYL v Birmingham City Council and Others 2007 All ER 271, the Court of Appeal has considered again the difficult question of what will qualify as a "hybrid" public authority for the purposes of section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 ("HRA"

Kentucky v. Davis (warning: this case may have side effects)

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2008

On November 5, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Kentucky v. Davis

Indiana Supreme Court protects students

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 28 2008

On April 1, 2008, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that a professor could not sue two students who filed harassment complaints against him with their university

Philippines v. Pimentel: Supreme Court rules that absence of foreign sovereign parties with competing claims in non-US proceedings was fatal to US action

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 23 2008

In Republic of Philippines v. Pimentel, the US Supreme Court held that a case involving ownership of certain assets had to be dismissed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 when parties that were necessary to the case were beyond the jurisdiction of US courts due to sovereign immunity and the assets in question were the subject of non-US litigation by those sovereign parties

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