Posted by Steven Otto. The San Francisco rating company, Yelp, is not found liable for negative reviews posted on its site. This is because it relies on ratings posted by users, not the company itself. A federal appeals court on Monday, September 12, dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against Yelp by Douglas Kimzey, the owner …
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DOJ Announces Charges Against 400 People for $1.3 Billion in Health-Care Fraud
Posted by Devaki Sidhaye. Recently department of Justice announced largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 individuals, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals. Their involvement in health care fraud scams totaling approximately $1.3 billion in false billings. As per the department, many of the …
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Entrepreneurial Young People Can Now Snow Shovel Without a Permit in NJ
Snow shoveling always has been a means for young people to learn how to run a business. They learn how to advertise, interact with customers, work for a competitive wage, and learn something about service to the community. All businesses are at the service of others; and, snow shoveling, like delivering newspapers, or running a lemonade …
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NCAA Archives – Blog Business Law – a resource for business law students
Posted by Hailey Arteaga. One of the biggest businesses in America is college sports. Men’s Basketball is the second highest grossing sport of colleges across the nation. According to Business Insider, a Division 1 Men’s Basketball teams alone drive-in an average yearly revenue of $7,880,290 (Gaines). With this much money being streamed to a school each …
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Ex-Goldman Sachs Trader Salem Renews Fight For $5 Million
Posted by Ovais Ahmed. An article posted on bloomberg.com talks about an appeal made by ex-Goldman Sachs trader Deeb Salem to get an extra $5 million he thinks he deserves in bonus money. He has already received $8.25 million and still wants to get more money out of his former company. I don’t understand why the …
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Used Cars and Recall Safeguards: Putting Drivers at Risk
Posted by Patrick Cleaver. Every law is made to help the public, to protect the safety of the driver, and deliver a reliable car. The car industry knows they make mistakes and are responsible for fixing the damages for free when such mistakes occur and cars get recalled. However, does a used owner know that …
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Draft Kings, Fanduel Granted Emergency Stay to Continue in N.Y.
Posted by Stephen D’Angelo. Just six hours after New York Attorney General placed a temporary injunction, which would stop sites like Fanduel and DraftKings from doing business in New York, an appellate court saved them by issuing an emergency temporary stay that will allow New Yorkers to continue to use Fanduel and Draft Kings until …
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Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Fraud
Posted by Bridget Uribe. During the month of March of 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged three executives: Chairman Steven Davis, Executive Director Stephen DiCarmine, and Chief Financial Officer Joel Sanders of Dewey & LeBoeuf, the international law firm, with facilitating a $150 million fraudulent bond offerings. The SEC alleged that the three …
A Shareholder’s Lawsuit May Not Be Subject to the Attorney-Client Privilege
The Delaware Supreme Court has recently handed a major blow to corporate directors and officers who believe the attorneys employed in their legal department necessarily have to keep everything under wraps. The Indiana Electrical Workers Pension Trust Fund, a Walmart shareholder, filed suit against the directors and officers claiming they knew their employees may have …
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Lumber Liquidators Sued for Defective Flooring from China
Posted by Melissa Nomani. Lawsuits filed against Lumber Liquidators claim that homeowners who put certain laminate flooring into their home are being exposed to high levels of formaldehyde. This puts them at risk and also lowers the value of their property. As of this July, the number of lawsuits filed against the company has gone …
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