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UNTIL DAWN
OPENING TODAY AT PALACE CINEMAS Published:Wednesday | April 30, 2025 | 12:08 AM Previous Pause Next A horror film based on the PlayStation Studios video game, UNTIL DAWN finds a group of friends in a time loop where they relive experiences of being trapped in a remote valley and hunted by a masked killer. They soon realise that the only way to endure is to stay alive until morning. Directed by: David F.
Delaware Enacts Significant Changes to its General Corporation Law
Delaware Enacts Significant Changes to its General Corporation Law The Delaware legislature has been moving quickly to ensure that Delaware remains the preeminent home of choice for many corporations. Eric G. Pearson discusses changes to the state's general corporation law. The Delaware legislature has been moving quickly to ensure that Delaware remains the preeminent home of choice for many corporations by amending the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL).
Delaware Enacts Significant Changes to Delaware General Corporation Law | JD Supra
As discussed in Foley’s Corporate Governance Update last month, SB 21: Delaware Responds In The DExit Battle, the Delaware legislature has been moving quickly to ensure that Delaware remains the preeminent home of choice for many corporations by amending the DGCL. The comprehensive changes, known as SB 21, became law on March 25, 2025, when the Delaware House of Representatives passed the Bill, and Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed it into law.
Delaware Enacts Significant Changes to Delaware General Corporation Law
As discussed in Foley’s Corporate Governance Update last month, SB 21: Delaware Responds In The DExit Battle, the Delaware legislature has been moving quickly to ensure that Delaware remains the preeminent home of choice for many corporations by amending the DGCL. The comprehensive changes, known as SB 21, became law on March 25, 2025, when the Delaware House of Representatives passed the Bill, and Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed it into law.
SB21: Delaware Responds In The DExit Battle | JD Supra
The annual DGCL amendments this year carry a little more urgency than before. SB21 was rushed through to the Delaware Senate in mid-February, bypassing the normal process that involves recommendation by the Council of the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association (the “CLC”).
SEC Voluntarily Stays Final Rule on Climate Disclosures | JD Supra
On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order staying the Final Rule for the Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors (“Final Rule”) that it released not more than a month before, to require registrants to provide certain climate-related disclosures in their registration statements and annual reports.[1] The SEC’s administrative stay will remain in place until the completion of litigation filed in the federal courts...
Cos. Should Heed IRS Warnings About Employee Tax Credit | JD Supra
This article was originally published in Law360 on April 17, 2023, and is republished with permission. For most businesses, turning the calendar to 2023 meant putting the pandemic and any of its tax-related effects further in the rearview mirror. One notable exception, however, is the employee retention credit, or ERC, which Congress first created as part of the March 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
Why You Need Visibility in Your Salesforce Environment
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Why You Need Visibility in Your Salesforce Environment
The Salesforce ecosystem continues to expand. The numerous managed packages and available add-ons offer added functionality—but these can also lead to a profusion of metadata, rules, and permission sets that can quickly become unmanageable. Rules governing a Salesforce environment can be dictated by the Salesforce platform, come from a managed package, or be instituted by an organization itself. As a group, these rules are known as a policy.
Seventh Circuit Announces a New Standard for Analyzing Violations of the Ex Post Facto Clause | JD Supra
Those who practice municipal law in the three states that make up the Seventh Circuit now have a new standard to consider when arguing that a law violates the Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause. Laws that are both retroactive and penal run afoul of the Ex Post Facto Clause. Until recently, courts in the Seventh Circuit decided the first prong of that analysis—that is, whether a law was retroactive—by applying a rule adopted in United States v. Leach, 639 F.3d 769 (7th Cir. 2011), and Vasquez v.
Corporate Environmental Impact: SEC Proposes Detailed Climate-Related Disclosures
Introduction In response to increasing demand by the investment community over the last dozen years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published guidance calling for greater disclosure by public companies of the risks and costs of climate change on their businesses.
Corporate Environmental Impact: SEC Proposes Detailed Climate-Related Disclosures
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Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities and Environment Commission? The SEC Proposes New Rules for Climate-Related Disclosures | JD Supra
On March 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a comprehensive set of proposed rules mandating climate-related risk disclosures for public companies (Proposed Rule).1 For some the release marks “an important and long-awaited step forward"2 and a “watershed moment” for financial markets;3 for others it exceeds the SEC’s statutory authority and “turns the disclosure regime on its head”4 — and these are just the reactions of the commissioners themselves.5 Despite...
Lessons On Conflicted-Party Transactions from NC Ruling | JD Supra
This article was originally published by Law360 on January 27, 2022, and is reproduced below in full with permission.
Wisconsin Municipalities May Not Appeal A Board Of Review's Reduction Of Property Tax Assessment
United States: Wisconsin Municipalities May Not Appeal A Board Of Review's Reduction Of Property Tax Assessment 18 December 2020 Foley & Lardner Your LinkedIn Connections with the authors To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com.
Wisconsin Municipalities May Not Appeal a Board of Review’s Reduction of Property Tax Assessment | JD Supra
The old adage tells us that you can’t fight city hall, but a recent decision from Wisconsin’s court of appeals, which handed a victory to property taxpayers who received a favorable decision from a board of review, teaches that sometimes city hall can’t fight back. In State ex rel. City of Waukesha v. City of Waukesha Board of Review, No. 2019AP1479 (Nov.
Wisconsin Municipalities May Not Appeal a Board of Review’s Reduction of Property Tax Assessment
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 The old adage tells us that you can’t fight city hall, but a recent decision from Wisconsin’s court of appeals, which handed a victory to property taxpayers who received a favorable decision from a board of review, teaches that sometimes city hall can’t fight back. In State ex rel. City of Waukesha v. City of Waukesha Board of Review,No. 2019AP1479 (Nov.
Seventh Circuit Records First Video of Oral Argument
Those who follow the workings of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit are no doubt accustomed to visiting the court’s website (http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov) to read the daily release of published opinions or to listen to the court’s audio recordings of oral arguments. The former are available here; the latter are available here and normally are posted in the afternoon, a few hours after that morning’s oral arguments.
Seventh Circuit Requires a Defendant Seeking Removal To Establish the Plaintiffs’ Article III Standing | JD Supra
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Seventh Circuit Requires a Defendant Seeking Removal To Establish the Plaintiffs’ Article III Standing
Collier v. SP Plus Corp., a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, presented the “unusual circumstance” where both the plaintiffs and the defendant argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue under Article III. No. 17-2431 (7th Cir. May 14, 2018). The court issued its opinion per curiam; Judges Daniel Manion, David Hamilton, and Amy Barrett were on the panel.
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Issues Important Decision under “Borrowing” Statute | JD Supra
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Wisconsin Court of Appeals Reinstates Tort Claims Against Operator of Firearms-Classifieds Website | JD Supra
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Wisconsin Court of Appeals Issues Important Decision under “Borrowing” Statute
If your work involves civil litigation in Wisconsin, you’ve likely run across Wis. Stat. § 893.07, the state’s borrowing statute, which governs the application of foreign statutes of limitations to cases filed in Wisconsin. And, if you’ve had the occasion to consider § 893.07, you should make a note to remember Paynter v. ProAssurance Ins. Co., No. 2017AP739 (Mar. 27, 2018), a recent decision from District III of the Court of Appeals written by Judge Lisa Stark.
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Reinstates Tort Claims Against Operator of Firearms-Classifieds Website
The federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, in what is commonly referred to as “Section 230,” absolves from liability the “provider” of “an interactive computer service” when the plaintiff uses a theory of liability that “treat[s]” the provider “as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1) and (e)(3) (Oct. 1998).
Seventh Circuit Explains the Standard for Certification of a Question of State Law | JD Supra
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Seventh Circuit Explains the Standard for Certification of a Question of State Law
Seventh Circuit Rule 52 allows the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, when faced with “questions arising under the laws of [a] state which will control the outcome of a case pending in the federal court” to “certify such a question to the state court in accordance with the rules of that court” and to “stay the case . . . to await the state court’s decision.” The Seventh Circuit has explained in Cleary v. Philip Morris Inc.
Wisconsin’s Court of Appeals Holds That a NonLawyer Personal Representative May Not Initiate an Appeal
It is not exactly a novel proposition of law in Wisconsin that a nonlawyer cannot represent a separate legal entity (as opposed to appearing pro se) in a Wisconsin court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court considered this issue over 50 years ago in State ex rel. Baker v. County Court of Rock County, 29 Wis. 2d 1, 138 N.W.2d 162 (1965), when the county court had refused to act on filings from a nonlawyer executor of an estate. The Supreme Court addressed a similar question more recently in Jadair Inc. v.
In the Age of Airbnb, the Seventh Circuit Explains the “Reasonable Diligence” Required for Personal Service in Wisconsin
Wis. Stat. § 801.11(1)(c) allows a plaintiff to resort to service by publication when, through efforts that amount to “reasonable diligence,” he has been unable to serve the defendant in person. The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Cunningham v. Montes, No. 17-2516 (7th Cir. Feb.
Seventh Circuit Explains When an Award of Attorney’s Fees Is Final for Purposes of an Appeal | JD Supra
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Seventh Circuit Explains When an Award of Attorney’s Fees Is Final for Purposes of an Appeal
The law clerks of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit might be excused for thinking of the court’s recent decision in Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Co., No. 17-2080 (7th Cir. Feb. 9, 2018), as the one that got away. So pervasive and fundamental were the case’s jurisdictional issues on appeal that the court, in an opinion written by Judge Frank Easterbrook, toyed with “order[ing] both sides to pay a penalty,” with the “law clerks’ holiday-party fund” as the beneficiary.
Supreme Court Decides Case That the 7th Circuit Could Not Review En Banc
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued its decision in Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, No. 16-534 (Feb. 21, 2018), affirming the Seventh Circuit by holding that a provision of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1610(g), does not create a freestanding exception to the general prohibition on executing a judgment against a foreign state.
“You Can’t Beat Something with Nothing”: 7th Cir. Explains the Importance of Disclosing Experts
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Seventh Circuit Explains Importance of Disclosing Experts: “You Can’t Beat Something with Nothing”
Some cases present issues that are difficult for the parties to litigate or for the courts to decide. But those cases tend to be the exception. Much of litigation—at least when practiced successfully—requires the mastery of a fundamental set of skills or tasks, the blocking and tackling of the craft. This week’s decision by the Seventh Circuit in Cripe v.
Buyer Beware: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Reaffirms the Doctrine of Caveat Emptor in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Lawyers who practice in Wisconsin might be forgiven for wondering what limits to liability remain for torts under Wisconsin law. Some decisions of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, such as Behrendt v. Gulf Underwriters Ins., 2009 WI 71, which held that “everyone owes to the world at large the duty of refraining from those acts that may unreasonably threaten the safety of others,” ¶ 17, have expanded the universe of potential defendants. But limits do exist, as the appellant in Brenner v.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court: Contractual Waivers of Civil Jury Trial Are Enforceable
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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court: Contractual Waivers of Civil Jury Trial Are Enforceable
Last year the Wisconsin Court of Appeals threw businesses a curveball when it held that a contractual waiver of the right to a jury trial was unenforceable. The holding of the case, Parsons v. Associated Banc-Corp., 2016 WI App 44, 370 Wis. 2d 112, 881 N.W.2d 793, seemed at odds with long-settled case law and with principles concerning freedom of contract. But the Supreme Court has now straightened the court of appeals’ pitch. In a 4-2 decision issued last week, it reversed the lower court.
Professional Responsibility: A Softer, Gentler Seventh Circuit Reconsiders “Substantial Compliance” under Rule 11
Those who practice regularly before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit know that the court has not been reluctant to punish a misbehaving lawyer. So the court’s recent decision in Riffner v. PNC Bank, No. 15-2142 (7th Cir. Mar. 10, 2017), might come as a bit of a surprise.
Supreme Court Calls for the Views of the Solicitor General in a Case That the 7th Circuit Could Not Review En Banc
Last summer, we wrote about a unique situation that arose in the case of Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, No. 14-1935 (7th Cir. July 19, 2016), in which the Seventh Circuit found itself unable to assemble a “majority” of the judges in regular active service who were eligible to vote whether to rehear a case en banc. As of this Monday, January 9, 2017, based on the Order List released by the Supreme Court, there are signs that this long-running saga might not be over.
New Wisconsin Court of Appeals
Bill Gates once wrote that “[w]e always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” Mr. Gates surely wasn’t thinking about the turnover of judges on Wisconsin’s Court of Appeals when he wrote that, but a review of the court’s membership over the last 10 years illustrates his point superbly.
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