In Malone, the Delaware Supreme Court further clarified, and significantly broadened, the standard for a state law breach of fiduciary duty arising out of alleged disclosure violations.
"Nearly every patent that contains a combination of prior ideas is at risk because the court has dramatically broadened the standard of obviousness," said Cynthia Kernick, an intellectual property lawyer at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh.
Feldman: Last year, the National Labor Relations Board broadened its standard for determining joint-employer status in a decision involving Browning-Ferris Industries, and another case involving McDonald's has upped the stakes for franchising.
Some have been called back, many of them at the Defense Department, which recalled the large majority of its 400,000 furloughed employees on Oct. 6 under the Pay Our Military Act, which also broadened the standards for which DoD employees can be kept on the job in support of the military.
Pak-Hang Wong claims that this question requires us to broaden the standard approach to information ethics from a narrow focus on the "right/the just" (2010, 29) that defines ethical action negatively (e.g., in terms of violations of privacy, copyright, etc).
Broadcasting organisations are therefore increasingly offering, in addition to their own broadcasts of television and radio programmes, ancillary to their broadcast online services, such as simulcasting and catch-up services, in order to broaden their standard programming.
In fact, at least one county conducting recounts, Broward, voted on Sunday to broaden its standards for determining a vote, agreeing to consider dimpled or one-corner chads, the tiny pieces of paper normally dislodged from punch card ballots, as valid votes.
In light of Mr. Gore's meager gains, Democrats are asking the election authorities in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties to broaden their standards of what constitutes a vote and count "dimpled" chads and chads that are only pushed in on one corner.
The only setback for the Obama administration was the high court's ruling that the federal government can't penalize states that refuse to go along with a planned expansion of Medicaid, particularly by broadening eligibility standards.
Directs NERC to modify its Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards to broaden and standardize mandatory reporting of cyber security incidents.
The New York State Court of Appeals has broadened the "protectable interest" standard so that it covers what are called "unique individuals," who can be protected even when they have no managerial responsibilities or special customer contacts.
