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Good News for California Retailers: California Courts Ease Compliance With The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act To download a PDF of this Alert, click here. The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (California Civil Code § 1747 et seq.) (the “Act”) was enacted to protect consumer privacy rights by restricting the type of information which retailers can request […]
Merchants, Beware: Could You Be Liable for Credit Card Breaches? by Robert E. Braun Retail Merchandiser December 2008 If you had been following financial headlines in August of this year, you would have seen the following reports: August 5, 2008: The United States Department of Justice announced the largest identity theft case ever prosecuted in […]
Bob Braun’s article entitled “Documenting Corporate Joint Ventures” was published in the Summer 2007 edition (Volume 22, Number 3) of California Business Law Practitioner, a journal published by the Continuing Education of the Bar.
The California courts have recently held that a seller’s agreement not to solicit employees of the buyer is too broad under California Business and Professions Code Sec. 16601, and thus not enforceable. In Strategix, Ltd. v. Infocrossing, _ Cal. Rptr. 3d _ (4th Dist. 2006), the court said any such restrictions on employee solicitation must […]
Smoking has long presented a challenge to the hospitality industry. Perhaps unique among all industries, hotels, restaurants and bars are in the position of catering (or trying to cater) to two opposing groups simultaneously — smokers and non-smokers. The industry has worked to address the desires of these two groups for years, creating smoking and […]
Anytime a hotel owner begins serious negotiations with a hotel manager, he or she is likely to be presented with the manager’s standard form of management agreement. The Manager’s Standard Form Not surprisingly, the standard agreement will be the best case scenario for the manager. It will provide the optimum term, best termination rights, and […]
California has adopted legislation which changes how companies can use electronic communications in their “corporate communications.” The changes broaden the options available to corporations for conducting many of their required communications, such as meetings of boards of directors, shareholder meetings, delivering notices of meetings, taking actions without a meeting and annual reports. In most cases, […]
Planning for Brand Transition Any casual observer of transactions in the hospitality industry will notice that hotels regularly change their flags. In a mixed-use environment, the owner of a major shopping mall (or an office-residential-hotel project) may decide to upgrade or reposition the mixed-use development. A hotel may be a vital part of this effort, […]
Bob Braun‘s article, "An Emerging Information Security Minimum Standard of Due Care," with Stan Stahl, Ph.D., was published in Privacy Journal.
Robert Braun‘s article, "An Emerging Information Security Minimum Standard of Due Care," with Stan Stahl, Ph.D., was published in Information Security Management Handbook.
