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US Immigration Update: USCIS Announces New Actions to Reduce Backlogs, Expand Premium Processing, and Provide Relief to Work Permit Holders
To U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has just announced a trio of efforts to increase efficiency and reduce burdens to the overall legal immigration system. USCIS will set new agency-wide...
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Italy Update: Substantial modification of the Articles of Association of a S.r.l.: null and void the contract without the prior approval of the shareholders
The Court of Rome, with judgment no. 1722 of 27 January 2020, sanctioned the nullity of the contract stipulated by the director of a S.r.l., entailing a substantial modification of...
read moreNew York Court of Appeals Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Daily Fantasy Sports Law, Reversing Lower Court Rulings
On March 22, 2022, the New York Court of Appeals held that the historical prohibition on “gambling” in Article I, §9 of the New York Constitution does not encompass skill-based...
read moreGermany Covid Update
Background At the end of last year, the Federal Government amended § 28b of the Infection Protection Act ("IfSG"). The aim of the legal regulation was that employees (m/f/d) may...
read moreTrade Dress Case Results in Record Damages in Thailand
Trade dress, which refers to the visual appearance of a product and packaging, as well as the product’s placement at its point-of-sale (store layout), was at the center of an...
read moreNEW YORK APPELLATE COURT RESTORES INSURER’S RIGHT TO SEEK PRO RATA ALLOCATION OF SETTLEMENTS BETWEEN INSURED AND UNINSURED PERIODS
In Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Jenkins Bros., 2022 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1846 (App.Div. 1st Dept. March 22, 2022), the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, issued a ruling reversing...
read moreAnti Shell Directive – The EU cracks down on letterbox companies
On 22 December 2021, the EU Commission published a proposal for a new regulation "to determine rules to prevent the misuse of letterbox companies for harmful tax purposes". This regulation...
read moreUK Update: New pension trustees are often surprised by how much they have to learn.
While the law gives them six months to get up to speed with the basics, the requirement to keep learning will continue throughout their trusteeship. Increased regulatory burden for pensions...
read moreA step forward for data management: ASEAN Data Management Framework and ASEAN Model Standard Contractual Clauses for Cross Border Data Flows
On 30 November 2021, the Personal Data Protection Commissioner issued an advisory recognizing the adoption of the ASEAN Data Management Framework (“DMF”) and the ASEAN Model Contractual Clauses for Cross Border Data Flows (“MCCs”) which were...
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