Compliance with the Red Flags Rule (a new federal identity theft prevention measure) and the Address Discrepancy Rule (a new federal measure ensuring accuracy of consumer ...

In Watkins v. Wells Fargo Home Mort. , a borrower filed a class action against Wells Fargo, alleging that the company’s mortgage division had originated predat ...

On July 30, 2008, the Fed adopted the final rule to amend Regulation Z. Effective October 1, 2009, the rule creates a new category of mortgage loans, imposes new requirements on the mak ...

Spurred by 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, biosecurity has become an important issue, with the government pouring billions of dollars into biosecurity preparedness and entirely reorganizi ...

The Save New Jersey Homes Act of 2008 is currently awaiting Governor Corzine's signature. It requires creditors to freeze the introductory rates of certain mortgages for 3 years & d ...

Quinby v. WestLB , 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35583 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 15, 2005) and Treppel v. Biovail Corp. , Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)

In the Interclínicas case, Interclínicas argued that a decree of its extrajudicial liquidation amounted to a supervening cause of i ...

United States v. Alvarez-Machain allowed the United States to bring a foreign national within U.S. jurisdiction for trial, thereby setting the ...

In MGP Ingredients, Inc. v. Mars, Inc. , 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76853 (D. Kan. Oct. 15, 2007), both parties assumed that electronically stored information (ESI) must be produced as ...

The Patent Reform Act of 2007, potentially the first major reform of the patent laws in more than 50 years, would leave virtually no aspect of a patent practice untouched. Driven by concerns about patent quality and excessive litigation, the Act can pl ...

Radovan Karadzic and Omar Al-Bashir are part of a recent trend of state leaders being prosecuted, serving jail time, or facing credible criminal investigations by domestic, foreign, and ...

Taxpayers must report all income from wherever it is earned. However, taxpayers who are working abroad are subject to double taxation. The income they earn in a foreign country is subje ...

Changing demands have led to new payment methods. One of these methods, prepaid stored value cards, has become very popular. This commentary by Professor Arnold S. Rosenberg focuses on ...

Beginning on November 1, 2008, compliance with the Red Flags Rule (a new federal identity theft prevention measure) and the Address Discrepancy Rule (a new federal measure ...

Where the legislature acts to amend a statute shortly after a court decision finding the statute unconstitutional, does the amendment amount to a reenactment of the challe ...