Recent Cases Remind Georgia Employers to Update Restrictive Covenant Agreements
11/6/17
By: Amy C. Bender
Many employers, in an effort to protect their valuable personnel and information, require employees to sign agreements containing restrictive covenants, which may include covenants not to compete, not to solicit employees or customers, or not to …
From the CFPB: 9 Principles for Safer Third-Party Access to Financial Data
11/2/17
By: Zach Moura
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency that was created to ensure consumer protection in the financial sector. On October 18, it released a set of nine principles intended to help protect consumers who …
Wire Fraud. Who Bears the Risk?
11/2/17
By: Allison S. Hyatt
Wire fraud is on the rise in recent years. Finding out that escrow funds were mistakenly wired into the wrong hands is every broker, banker, consumer or escrow agent’s worst nightmare. Article 4A of the Uniform …
GPS Tracking Devices – The Answer to Stopping High-Speed Pursuits?
11/1/17
By: Sun Choy
In the era of drones and artificial intelligence, it was only a matter of time before technology caught up to stopping high-speed pursuits. In a suburb of metropolitan Atlanta, a police department successfully deployed a GPS tracking …
Fault Not Attributable to US Army Corps of Engineers in Hurricane Katrina Death: A Lesson in Apportionment
11/1/17
By: Cheryl H. Shaw
82-year old Frances Robinette died in a New Orleans nursing home four days after Hurricane Katrina struck. Robinette had been a resident of the facility for two years and suffered a host of medical issues including …
NLRB Tells Appellate Court that Racial Harassment by Picketers is OK
11/1/17
By: Paul H. Derrick
The National Labor Relations Board is urging the full Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals not to review a 2-1 panel decision that found a union picketer’s racially derogatory comments toward black replacement workers to be protected …