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The founder and chairman and the lead independent director of Green Mountain Coffee Roaster (GMCR) both were removed from their leadership positions.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act"), which was signed into law on July 21, 2010, has an immediate effect on many private securities offerings.

Over the past week, the filing period for candidates in state elections closed in North Dakota and Oklahoma.

On May 26, 2010, the Securities Exchange Commission adopted amendments ("Amendments") to Rule 15c2-12, promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Rule"), that affect brokers, dealers and municipal securities dealers ("Participating Underwriters"), issuers of municipal bonds, and borrowers of municipal bond proceeds ("Obligated Persons").

Inter Partes Review is a new post-grant proceeding created by the AIA for challenging a patent.

The comment period has just closed on a proposal published last July in which U.S. Customs and Border Protection suggested significant changes to the way in which the country of origin is determined for goods subjected to processing in more than one country

On August 7, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (the “Service”) issued Notice 2009-62, which extends the deadline for filing Form TD F 90-22.1 (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, or “FBAR”) from September 23, 2009 to June 30, 2010 for two groups of U.S. persons for 2008 and prior calendar years.

For past three years, much attention has been focused on offshore bank accounts and the obligation of U.S. taxpayers to report such accounts on the much-heralded Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts or "FBAR" form.

In a decision issued late last fall that surely surprised "wizened veterans" of the debate over corporate creditor standing to bring derivative claims, Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed creditors' derivative claims brought against the board of directors of an insolvent limited liability company.

In a precedential ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Opalinski v. Robert Half Int’l recently held that a federal judge—not an arbitrator—should decide whether an agreement between individuals to arbitrate employment disputes should extend to class-wide arbitration. 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 14538 (3d Cir. July 30, 2014).

Given recent events, there is an increased interest in political risk insurance in Russia and Ukraine.

Among the severe business consequences of COVID-19 has been the government-mandated closure of non-essential businesses to better prevent the spread of the virus.

This year's Tulane Corporate Law Institute (TCLI) conference took place March 31-April 1 in downtown New Orleans. Started in the late 1980s by former Delaware Supreme Court Justice Andrew G.T. Moore (author of Smith v. VanGorkam and Revlon v. MacAndrews ) and a group of New Orleans and Delaware corporate practitioners, the annual gathering has become the nation's leading corporate law conference.

The SEC’s five year old insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, came to a sad conclusion for the SEC on Wednesday when a federal jury acquitted Mr. Cuban of insider trading charges.

A recent corporate opportunity decision, Dweck v. Nasser, offers a fascinating read. The opinion, by Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery, tells a story of deceit, conspiracy, and breaches of the duties of loyalty and good faith not often illustrated in such graphic detail.

In U.S. v. Windsor, the United States Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

On March 17, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or the "Commission") issued a Notice of Inquiry (the "Notice") regarding its analysis of horizontal market power under section 203 of the Federal Power Act ("FPA").

•The state plaintiffs in Michigan v. EPA were dealt a blow on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court denied their petition for a stay of enforcement of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards