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Federal Court Rejects Foreign Employee’s Attempt to Avoid Forum Selection Clause on Grounds He Signed Under Duress Upon Arriving in U.S.
Earlier this fall, the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts transferred an employee’s declaratory judgment action to the Eastern District of Michigan pursuant to a forum-selection clause in a non-compete agreement over the employee’s argument that he had signed the agreement under duress because he was not told he would need to sign it until he...
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What You Need to Know About Trade Secrets in India
As a special feature of our blog –special guest postings by experts, clients, and other professionals –please enjoy this blog entry about trade secrets in India by technology and corporate attorneys Sajai Singh and Soumya Patnaik of J. Sagar Associates in Bengaluru, India. Sajai serves as the President of ITechLaw, a leading technology law organization. This entry is part...
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USCIS, America’s Immigration Cutcherry, Adopts New Procedures as the Boss Readies for a Move Upstairs
Over the 4th of July weekend, I devoured a fascinating book and, in the course of it, learned a new synonym for “bureaucracy” — “cutcherry” — taken from Hindi and apparently originating with the British East-India Company’s bureau office in what is now Chennai. The book, The Professor and the Madman ~ A Tale of Murder,...
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Give Peace a Chance: End the U.S.-India Immigration and Trade War Now
The drums of war are pounding. Prominent American companies, through a variety of business associations, are urging the Obama Administration and Congress to punish the Government of India for mounting hostile actions in a brewing trade war. For its part, the Indian government cannot be pleased with the dramatically increased filing fees and restrictions to be...
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Federal Court Allows Service On Foreign Defendants Through Facebook
Did you think Facebook was just for “likes” and “status” updates? Think again! A federal district court in New York recently tackled the issue of service of process via social media head on, permitting service via Facebook as a backup means of service for serving foreign defendants. In the case of Federal Trade Commission v. PCCare247, Inc.,...
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Hey, Immigration Bureaucrats: Corporations Are NOT People!
At least by 1602 with the chartering of the Dutch East India Company, and perhaps as early as the 1300s with the formation of the first colleganza, a rudimentary joint-stock company set up in Venice to share the cost of a trade expedition, human beings and corporations have cohabited the earth. Although the shared habitation of human and juridical beings has...
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L-1B Spécialité Horrifique: The Immigration War on the Consulting Industry (And Its Customers)
Last week, the American Council on International Personnel (ACIP) convened its 40th annual symposium in Pentagon City VA, just outside Washington DC, an event attended by scores of immigration managers and corporate counsel hailing from Fortune 500 and Forbes 100 companies. A week earlier, on the other side of the globe, hedge funds and institutional investors...
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Missive from Mumbai: Why Are U.S. Immigration Agencies Attacking India and Hurting America?
At least when it comes to India, Yogi Berra had it wrong. It’s not déjà vu all over again. Blogging this weekend from my hotel room in Mumbai, I vividly recall my first trip to India in 1993. Invited as part of an American Bar Association delegation, I spoke in New Delhi on “Nonimmigrant Visa Options for Computer Software...