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On 17 February, Cotswold Geotechnical Holding (Cotswold) became the first company to be convicted and sentenced under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (the Act
Certain companies have mandatory retirement policies that apply to senior executives who meet the requirements of the "bona fide executive" exemption under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"
The trial has begun in Turin, Italy of two former heads of Eternit, Stephan Schmidheiny and Baron Louis de Cartier de Marchienne, who are accused of failing to ensure adequate safety standards at the asbestos plants run by Eternit in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s
In Ryan v. Gifford, 918 A.2d 341 (Del. Ch. 2007), the Delaware Court of Chancery addressed a novel issue of Delaware law: whether backdating stock option grants violates one or more fiduciary duties
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently issued decisions in D’Annunzio v. Prudential Ins. Co. and Stomel v. City of Camden, two highly anticipated rulings regarding who may sue under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (“CEPA” or the “Act”), New Jersey’s whistleblower statute
