BNA INSIGHTS: Delaware Supreme Court Sanctions Use of 4.99 Percent Net Operating Loss Poison Pill Using Unocal Analysis, as Modified by Unitrin

On Monday Oct. 4, 2010, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery’s decision to sanction the use of a poison pill with a 4.99 percent trigger to…

SEC Proposes Rules to Mitigate Conflicts for Swap Participants; Adopts Interim Rule

The Securities and Exchange Commission Oct. 13 took its first step towards establishing a regulatory framework for the…

BNA INSIGHTS: Protecting Privacy in Health Research

Healthcare today is increasingly information driven. It was this realization that was much of the impetus behind the passage of the…

Personal Laptop Was Not Electronic Communications Service or Facility under Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Court Rules

An individual’s laptop, where he saved e-mail, was neither an electronic communications service nor an electronic communications facility, so unauthorized access to…

U.S. Trade Representative Initiates Section 301 Investigation of Chinese Subsidies for Green Technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to a United Steelworkers petition, previous hitU.Snext hit. previous hitTradenext hit previous hitRepresentativenext hit Ron Kirk announced Oct. 15 that the United States is initiating an…

Industry Raises Concerns about Delay of EPA Guidance on Greenhouse Gases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—previous hitIndustrynext hit representatives are voicing previous hitconcernsnext hit about how they could be affected by a previous hitdelaynext hit in the release of draft…