Posted on: September 20, 2014

New Hampshire has become the latest state to enact a social media access statute, the Use of Social Media and Electronic Mail, NH RSA 275:73–75. The law takes effect on September 30.

In an article in the September 5 – 18 issue of the New Hampshire Business Review, attorney James Harris briefly analyzes how the new social media access law will work. From the article:

Tag: Labor and Employment, Legislation, Social Media, Technology & Law
Posted on: September 17, 2014

The Tax Foundation, one of the nation’s leading independent tax policy research organizations, has released its 2014 report on international tax competitiveness:

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Tag: Comparative Law, International Law, Law & Economics, Taxation
Posted on: September 13, 2014

The full press release is available here. An excerpt:

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Tag: Constitutional Law, Professional News
Posted on: September 11, 2014

Consider the persimmon. No wild fruits are so sweet and delectable as ripe persimmons after the first fall freeze, if you can beat the birds to them. But a green persimmon is not just less tasty; it is inedible. Not even a ‘possum will eat a green persimmon. As with fruit, so with litigation. A bench judge has several tools to ensure that litigation, while perhaps not sweet, is at least palatable: one of these is the power to stay litigation in the interest of judicial and litigants’ economy. 

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Tag: Civil Litigation / Civil Procedure, Commercial Litigation, Courts, Equity / Chancery
Posted on: September 10, 2014

In Ross Holding and Management Co. v. Advance Realty Group LLC,[1] the Delaware Court of Chancery has held again that traditional corporate fiduciary duties of care and loyalty apply to the members and managers of limited liability companies.  The Court wrote:

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Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Comparative Law, Corporations, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships

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