Business Law
Business law, also known as commercial law, regulates corporate contracts, hiring practices, and the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. Business law can encompass safety laws, the regulation of goods, contracts, and other business-related practice areas such as consumer fraud. It provides the regulation necessary to ensure fair business practices.
When conflict occurs, such as when a contract between two parties is not honored, a safety law is not enforced and an employee is hurt, or a job is not obtained due to discriminatory hiring practices, personal injury may have occured. If any transaction between a business and another party results in personal loss due to negligence on the part of the business, the injured party may be able to seek compensation for their losses.
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| Tuesday 08th of July 2008 10:35:19 PM Bracing for China Monopoly Law Antitrust lawyers are gearing up for a new law in one of the world's largest and fastest-growing economies. China's first anti-monopoly law goes into effect on Aug. 1, and attorneys at global firms are trying to figure out how it will affect their clients, particularly multinational corporations with significant market share there. There are also concerns about whether politics will play a role in the implementation of the new law. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Tuesday 08th of July 2008 10:35:19 PM Plaintiffs Score With E-Mail Evidence in Calif. Price-Fixing Case What began last week as a class certification hearing on one of five national, high-tech price-fixing cases pending in San Francisco became a big score for plaintiffs after the judge asked what evidence they had of a conspiracy, then read aloud an e-mail by competing executives that suggests how to keep prices high. The suit combines at least 51 separate civil antitrust actions against Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices/ATI Technologies, or AMD, that allege price-fixing in the market for computer chips that control images, known as graphics processing units, or GPUs. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Tuesday 08th of July 2008 10:35:19 PM A Crucial Quest for New look at Liability A group of business, legal and defense organizations, assisted by the former Enron federal prosecutor, has launched an amicus effort aimed at persuading federal courts to re-examine the standard for holding corporations criminally liable for the acts of their agents. The immediate target is a case pending on appeal, , in which a Greek company that manages a fleet of tanker vessels, was convicted and sentenced for its role in falsifying records to conceal the overboard dumping of waste oil from one of its vessels into international waters. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Tuesday 08th of July 2008 10:35:19 PM Real Estate Practices Go Abroad The subprime mortgage crisis, credit crunch and U.S. commercial real estate retraction that has forced some law firms to shed workers and lawyers is prompting DLA Piper and other international firms to focus their real estate practices on overseas work. Real estate lawyers at firms like Baker & McKenzie, DLA Piper and Jones Day are increasingly helping U.S. companies invest in overseas projects, assisting foreign investors buying U.S. infrastructure and real estate, relocating select lawyers overseas and using U.S. lawyers to staff overseas real estate deals. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Tuesday 08th of July 2008 10:35:19 PM Wal-Mart Loses $6.5 Million Wage-and-Hour Class Action On July 1, after a three-month bench trial, a state court judge in Minnesota ruled that in failing to provide rest breaks, Wal-Mart broke state labor laws more than 2 million times. Judge Robert King Jr. awarded $6.5 million in compensatory damages to the class, which consists of about 56,000 Wal-Mart employees in Minnesota. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
| Tuesday 08th of July 2008 10:35:19 PM Local Governments Can't Tax High-Speed Internet Service at Telephone Service Tax Rates Washington state's municipalities cannot tax Comcast Cable Inc.'s high-speed cable Internet service at expensive telephone service tax rates, the state's Supreme Court has ruled. The closely watched case in the cable and phone industry holds that cable Internet service is not the same as telephone service for taxing purpose. Click here to read this Business Law news article. |
