BY NICOLE HALMOUKOS — Uber Technologies, Inc., one of the most popular and expansive of a number of “e-hailing” apps to arrive in the personal transportation space, allows users to summon a ride using their smartphone. A glance at the young company’s financial growth is impressive: it has raised over $1.5 billion in venture capital, reached […]
BY ZACH LIPSHULTZ — On November 5, 2014, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Yates v. United States, a case that may help define the jurisdictional reach of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”). The Court granted certiorari on the issue of whether Yates, a commercial fishing captain from Cortez, Florida, violated the Act’s anti-spoliation provision […]
BY ELLINA BERDICHEVSKY — In November 2014, 75% of voters in Berkeley, California, succeeded in supporting the nation’s first tax on soda. The tax was in the amount of a penny per ounce, or about twelve cents a can, with all tax proceeds going into the City of Berkeley’s general fund. Local Florida news reporters […]
BY KEVIN HUGUELET — If recent history is indicative of future results, then this year Florida’s prosecutors will transfer juveniles into adult court at a higher rate than any other state in the Nation. From 2008 to 2012, over 12,000 Florida children—some as young as 12 years old—were transferred into adult courts. Florida law authorizes […]
BY KATHERINE BRENNAN — On September 26, 2014, the Estate of Jack Kirby and Marvel Characters, Inc. announced that the two parties had settled a longstanding legal dispute over Kirby’s rights to the characters that he created or co-created while working as a freelance artist for Marvel between 1958 and 1963. The parties announced the […]
