Most ridiculous lawsuits USA: Staten Island mom hits city with $900 trillion suit

gavel.jpgFausat Ogunbayo, 46, recently sued the city and its Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) in Brooklyn federal court, claiming the defendants had violated both her civil rights and her children’s by removing the boys from their home here in June 2008.

 

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. —  A $900 trillion suit.

That’s trillion with a „t,“ and it’s the amount in damages which a West Brighton woman seeks from the city for, she alleges, improperly placing her two sons in a Queens foster home more than three years ago.

Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, recently sued the city and its Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) in Brooklyn federal court, claiming the defendants had violated both her civil rights and her children’s by removing the boys from their home here in June 2008. Weiterlesen

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ILR Daily News: Citigroup to pay $158.3M in mortgage settlement

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ILR Daily News Citigroup to pay $158.3M in mortgage settlement

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FCPA: Haas School Training for Compliance and Ethics Leadership

There are a myriad of compliance and ethics conferences across the country each year. I regularly attend and speak at some of these. There are also more regular webinar and local events which may focus on specific topics or themes. However, there are relatively few educational programs, put on by universities or business schools which focus on the ‘how to’ of compliance leadership. This situation will soon change. A recent article in the European Business Review, entitled “Leading with Ethics and Compliance”, author Mark Meaney discussed the Occupy Wall Street movement and similar protests in the context of the requirement for “business schools to address the need for greater accountability and transparency in business decision-making.” He pointed towards Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, who has argued for the “importance of creating a culture within the business school that encourages students to go beyond themselves as future business leaders in learning to accept responsibility for the impact on society of their actions.”

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Why Corporations Choose Delaware

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DELAWARE CORPORATION AND BUSINESS ENTITY LAWS

Hier finden Sie die wichtigsten Gesetze des Staates Delaware zu den verschiedenen US-Gesellschaftsformen.

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Most Ridiculous Lawsuits USA: Ex-client targets Louisville firm Becker Law

Tonia Freeman bows her head as she says that next week it will all be over because that's when her case goes to trial. She claims the Becker Law Office botched her injury case after she impaled her foot on a splinter of wood which caused her leg to be amputated to above the knee. She is suing the law firm for malpractice.

With its ad campaigns advising the injured and maimed that they „better call Becker,“ Louisville’s Becker Law Office says it has represented 30,000 people over 25 years. Now it is embroiled in a legal battle with one of them.

In a bitterly fought lawsuit set for trial today in Jefferson Circuit Court, Tonia Freeman says the firm filed a $10 million claim on her behalf for an injury that cost her a leg, but botched the case by failing to file suit on time. And then, she said, the firm dismissed her as a client, saying only that „our resources and time restraints do not allow us to go forward any further.“ …

Tonia Freeman bows her head as she says that next week it will all be over because that’s when her case goes to trial. She claims the Becker Law Office botched her injury case after she impaled her foot on a splinter of wood which caused her leg to be amputated to above the knee. She is suing the law firm for malpractice.

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United States: Confidentiality And Nondisclosure Agreements – Odd And Different Are Peculiar

At least where I am sitting, for the last month it has rained nondisclosure agreements.  On the one hand, these agreements have a certain cookie cutter repetitive quality.  On the other hand, there seems to be no end to ingenuity in these things.  The result is that something you hope would be straight forward and would not require much (any?) legal intervention, often does.  So, here are some thoughts on things to think about when you read an NDA.  Needless to say, this list is not comprehensive and – furthermore – I predict that the next one you look at will have something unique about it.  (Parenthetically, please feel free to send me samples (redacted to eliminate anything that should not be disclosed – like the identity of the parties) of unusual provisions.)  My last comments at the end of the list under the caption „Unusual Provisions“ seem like the relevant comments to me.  Anyway, here goes: Weiterlesen

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US-Governeur besucht Deutschland

Im Rahmen seiner Deutschlandreise wird Governer Tom Corbett am 22. März Stuttgart besuchen und die Kooperationskonferenz „Opportunity Pennsylvania“ eröffnen.

Neben US-Governeur Tom Corbett werden deutsche Unternehmen über ihre Erfahrungen in Pennsylvania berichten. Die Veranstaltung ist kostenlos.

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FCPA: Risk Assessments under the UK Bribery Act

In the February 10, 2012 edition of the Houston Business Journal, in an article entitled “In order to solve a problem, it must first be identified”, author Harvey Mackay wrote “People don’t usually buy products and services. They buy solutions to problems.” He notes that successful sales people “tailor their products and services to meet a demand”. However, in compliance the ‘demand’ that often needs to be satisfied is risk. In your role as a compliance professional, you need to be able to identify risk and then design a system to manage it. If you review a proposed transaction and concluded it would violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCA) and then reported that to senior management, you may well be told that it is the job of compliance to manage compliance risks, now go back and figure out a way to manage that risk so that the transaction can be done within the law. The question is how to determine the compliance risk so that it can be managed. The answer is by performing a risk assessment. Weiterlesen

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ILR: Will alien tort case be next Citizens United?

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ILR Will alien tort case be next Citizens United

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