Category: Forum

PDF Available By Ryan Deutsch* The recent enactment of the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”) has generated significant...

PDF Available By Kristen Iteen* In wake of the January 6th Capitol riots, corporate political donations have once again become...

PDF Available By Marcel Ruzan* When Apple Computers released its infamous “1984” commercial during Super Bowl XVIII it was intended...

PDF Available By Markus Benavidez *           Jangle Vision, a design house based in California, has...

PDF Available By Shelby Respicio*             On August 12, 2021, the Supreme Court denied a request by students at Indiana...

PDF Available By: Brandon Taylor* In May 2021, a Dutch trial court found that Royal Dutch Shell (“RDS”) had contributed...

PDF Available By: Courtney Kamauoha* Eighty-six percent of civil legal matters reported by low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal...

By: MICHAEL SHAW Foreign taxpayers may have a new avenue to avoid gain recognition from U.S. businesses and real estate: distressed American neighborhoods.

By: Raynee Cooper In February 2021, a New York federal judge rejected Citibank’s attempt to recover $504 million erroneously transferred to lenders. Citibank intended to make a loan interest payment on behalf of Revlon, Inc., but instead paid the full outstanding amount of $900 million. Some recipients returned the money, but $504 million remained unreturned and the contention of the case. The court relied on Banque Worms v. Bank America Int’l, 77 N.Y.2d 362 (N.Y. 1998) which held that a creditor can keep payment erroneously made by a third party if the creditor did not realize it was sent in error and did not make any misrepresentations. Here, the court determined that the lenders were not on constructive notice of Citibank’s error. Despite this ruling, Citibank argues that they are entitled to their funds and intends to appeal the court’s decision.

By: ANNA SASAKI Vote counting is underway for the biggest push towards unionization of Amazon employees since the company’s founding in 1995. 6,000 workers in Bessemer, Alabama voted on a collective decision as to whether the warehouse employees should formally unionize and bargain for a contract with Amazon through the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. The last attempt to unionize was in 2014 at an Amazon warehouse in Delaware, where the 30 workers ultimately turned it down. While the employees in Bessemer only represent a fraction of Amazon’s more than 500,000 front line workers, the decision to unionize will likely provide momentum for other Amazon employees to begin collectively bargaining.