Business Torts and Unfair Competition Handbook, 2d ed.
1590316533 Business torts and unfair competition handbook, 2d ed. American Bar Association 2006 393 pages $149.00 Paperback KF3195 This handbook offers a guide to the substantive and procedural issues that frequently arise in...

Alston & Bird LLP Names Thirteen New Partners in Atlanta Office.
Five New Partners Also Named in Firm's Charlotte, Research Triangle, and Washington D.C. Offices ATLANTA, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The national law firm Alston & Bird LLP has named 13 new partners in its Atlanta office. Five new partners have also been named...

Business torts.
Robert had a unique business propositions presented to him. He was the head of the automotive division for his employer, a company we shall call CTC. CTC had many franchised retail stores throughout Canada and sales of automobile seat covers at CTC stores represented 60 percent of...

Talent and intensity in Beantown: a Regional Tale on a Global Scale.
Tom Slattery: Describe your business for us. Phil Edmundson: We're an insurance broker and benefits consultant for companies' high-severity risk exposures, with more complicated risk problems than the average business. For example, the life sciences, where companies are exposed to mass torts for product liability....

Foreword to the Thomas F. Lambert, Jr., symposium issue on sophisticated new tort theories.
Despite the raven croaking of contemporary Cassandras that "Tort is Dead" or at least gone over the horizon, it might be closer to the truth to recall the insight of a recent commencement speaker. "I have," he said, "some good news and some bad news. First, the bad: The...

Direct marketing, mobile phones, and consumer privacy: ensuring adequate disclosure and consent mechanisms for emerging mobile advertising practices.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MOBILE COMMERCE AND MOBILE ADVERTISING III. M-ADVERTISING RAISES PRIVACY CONCERNS FOR CONSUMERS IV. PRIVACY REGULATION AND MOBILE ADVERTISING V. FEDERAL PRIVACY REGULATION AND M-ADVERTISING A. Breach of Privacy Policies as Unfair Trade Practices B. Spamming as an Unfair Trade Practice 1. "Opt-out" Consent is the Minimum...

Deepening insolvency in Canada?
The Canadian legal landscape on corporate directors' liability has been quiet since the release of the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in Peoples Department Stores Inc. (Trustee off v. Wise. In Peoples, the Court decided against imposing a duty on directors to consider the interests of creditors when...

Benign neglect reconsidered.
My theme for discussing Professor Cooper's paper(1) is prompted by the impending retirement of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Many may recall how he first came to broad public attention. In .January 1969, as an advisor to President-elect Richard Nixon, Moynihan wrote a memorandum concerning the course the new President...

The complementary roles of common law courts and federal agencies in producing and using policy-relevant scientific information.
I. INTRODUCTION II. SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN REGULATORY AGENCIES A. Adverse Effects Reporting Requirements B. TSCA Testing Rules III. SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN COMMON LAW COURTS IV. A CASE STUDY IN COOPERATION A. Teflon, C-8, and other Perfluorinated Compounds B. 3M Gets Out of the Business C. DuPont Expands Its Business...

Land surveyor liability to third parties in Illinois: your client tells you that his land surveyor made a mistake in preparing the plat of survey on his home. What are the damages? To whom is the surveyor liable? Does the surveyor have any defenses? This article answers these and other questions concerning surveyor liability to third parties.
In recent years, Illinois courts have wrestled with the tort of negligent misrepresentation and how it applies to various business professions. although accountants, (1) banks, (2) and title insurance companies (3) have been under the judiciary's microscope, land surveyors for the most part have been left alone. ...