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Farm Employers Score Major Win in H-2A Dispute – How Your Business Should Respond to Federal Appeals Court Decision

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A federal appeals court just ruled that the Department of Labor’s administrative system for imposing civil penalties on agricultural employers for H-2A violations is unconstitutional, handing businesses across all industries...more

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The Seventh Amendment Right to Jury for Violations of the Commodity Exchange Act – Part II

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This is the second part of a two-part article discussing a defendant’s Seventh Amendment right to jury in an enforcement action by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Commodity Exchange Act for civil monetary...more

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The Seventh Amendment Right to Jury for Violations of the Commodity Exchange Act – Part I

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This is the first of a two-part article discussing a defendant’s Seventh Amendment right to jury in an enforcement action by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Commodity Exchange Act for civil monetary...more

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CIT: Neither Section 1592 Nor the Seventh Amendment Guarantees a Right to Have a Jury Determine The Amount of Customs Penalties

In a variety of contexts, U.S. government agencies regulating international trade and the cross-border movement of goods and services possess significant civil and criminal penalty authority. For example, the primary agency...more

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The Scope Of SEC Defendants' Jury Trial Right: Part 4

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This is the last of four articles examining the scope of the Seventh Amendment jury trial right as applied to the facts that set the maximum monetary penalty a judge may impose against a civil defendant in a U.S. Securities...more

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The Scope Of SEC Defendants' Jury Trial Right: Part 2

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This is the second of four articles examining the scope of the Seventh Amendment jury trial right for civil defendants in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions. The previous article explained why the...more

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The Scope Of SEC Defendants' Jury Trial Right: Part 1

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It has been settled law for some time now that the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions extends to liability determinations. Unsettled is the question of...more

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