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Wine Seller Victory in Illinois Qui Tam Lawsuit

October 4, 2015

Wine sellers received a second positive update just this week in the qui tam winery lawsuits in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. With the help of some procedural maneuvering, we were successful in getting a qui tam winery case dismissed, with prejudice. On September 3, 2015, Judge Margaret Ann Brennan granted Motions to Dismiss filed by Co-Defendants, 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. and TSG, LLC in a two-count False Claims Act complaint. In Count I, the Relator alleged that the out-of-state wine-seller defendants failed to pay local sales tax, owed through obligations under the Illinois Liquor Control Act; and Count II was the all too familiar allegation that defendants failed to collect and remit tax on shipping and handling charges for the wine they sold and shipped into Illinois.

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The Distinction of Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other. Second Circuit Upholds New York’s Prohibition on Credit-Card Surcharges

October 2015
Business Law
Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
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Changes to UK resident non dom Income Tax Laws Leads to Need to Establish a Resident Non Dom Income Tax Trust Before April 6th 2017

September 2015
Trust and Estate
Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
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News, Insights & Events

Articles

Wine Seller Victory in Illinois Qui Tam Lawsuit

The Distinction of Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other. Second Circuit Upholds New York’s Prohibition on Credit-Card Surcharges

Monday Morning Quarterback - What Labor Practitioners Can Learn From "Deflategate"

Public Comment Period on DOL’s Proposed "White-Collar" Exemption Regulations Closes

OFCCP Issues Final Rule Prohibiting Pay Secrecy Policies and Actions By Federal Contractors

President Obama Signs Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Provide Paid Sick Leave

The Employment Expansion Trifecta: The Wage and Hour Division, The National Labor Relations Board, and . . . OSHA?

The NLRB’s Browning-Ferris Decision Significantly Lowers the Standard For Who Is a Joint Employer Under the NLRA

Changes to UK resident non dom Income Tax Laws Leads to Need to Establish a Resident Non Dom Income Tax Trust Before April 6th 2017

NYS Department of Health Emergency Regulations - Cooling Tower

New York Court of Appeals Advises Employers to Take Time to Present Restrictive Covenants to New Employees

The NLRB Unanimously Shuts Down Attempt to Unionize Northwestern’s Scholarship Football Players