According to the latest report from Cornerstone Research, which it jointly prepared with the Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, titled “Securities Class Action Filings – 2017 Mid-Year Assessment,” securities class action lawsuits hit a record …
As a general matter, when parties negotiate an agreement in a clear and unambiguous document, their writing will be enforced according to its terms. Evidence outside the four corners of …
Robocalls. We all get them. They are annoying. But, are they legal? Not surprisingly, the answer depends on the circumstances involved. In 1991, Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act …
As this Blog has noted in a previous post (here), to state a retaliation claim, both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer …
In business, relationships are important. One relationship that is essential to successful businesses is the principal-agent relationship. A principal-agent relationship may be established by evidence of the consent of one …
On July 10, 2017, new Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules went into effect that permit companies, regardless of their size, to file paperwork for initial public offerings without immediately …
Notice and reporting requirements in public contracts are common in public works projects. They provide public agencies with timely notice of deviations from budgeted expenditures or of any supposed malfeasance, …
It is well settled that “[e]very contract imposes upon each party a duty of good faith and fair dealing in its performance and its enforcement.” Restatement (Second) of Contracts § …
Prejudgment attachment is a provisional remedy that provides a plaintiff with a statutory mechanism by which he/she can secure a defendant’s assets during the pendency of a lawsuit. In effect, …
No one likes to read fine print or lengthy agreements. Anyone buying insurance, for example, knows this to be so. In fact, a 2016 car insurance TV commercial by Liberty …
