Employee stock bonus, stock purchase, and stock option plans are extremely common. Most employees and prospective employees are undoubtedly happy to receive these types of equity compensation awards, but can an employer require an employee to invest...
The Nevada legislature is currently considering a bill, SB 201, that would restrict, with certain exceptions, an association or unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit from prohibiting a unit’s owner or occupant of a unit from engaging in...
Three years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a nearly 500 page rule proposal that would require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. At the time, I argued....
Not too long ago, I wrote about a bill that is currently pending in the Nevada legislature, AB 158. This bill wouldauthorize Nevada courts toexercise general personal jurisdiction over entities onthe sole basis that the entity:
O frabjous day! the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) late last Friday issued an interim final rule that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN under the...
Vice Chancellor Leo Strine famously wrote that "Delaware law does not charter law breakers". In re Massey Energy Co., 2011 WL 2176479, at *20 (Del. Ch. May 31, 2011). Professor William J. Moon picks up on this theme in a forthcoming essay, Havens...
Ling Chi was a slow and torturous method of execution practiced in Imperial China. Better known in English as "death by a thousand cuts", ling chi took a terribly long time to kill the condemned prisoner.
I have seen the line "Independence now, independence forever!" attributed to Daniel Webster but I have been unable to locate the line in any of the texts cited as the source. I have also seen a longer quotation attributed to John Adams:
According to the Court of Appeal: