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Jason N. Barglow; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 7, 2013, previously published on May 5, 2013 The city of Lancaster, California recently adopted an ordinance requiring builders of most new homes to install functional solar power generation systems on these homes prior to their sale to the public. The law is believed to be the first in the nation to actually mandate the installation of solar...
| | U.S. to Cut Automotive Tariffs as Japan Enters TPP Talks
Christopher M. Swift; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 7, 2013, previously published on May 6, 2013 On April 24, 2013, Acting U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) Demetrios Marantis formally notified Congress that the United States plans to include Japan in Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TTP”) negotiations. Coming just three days after the TTP parties accepted Japan’s...
| | The "Olympics of Restructuring:" Kevyn Orr Named Detroit’s EFM
Tamar N. Dolcourt; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2013, previously published on May 2, 2013 Kevyn Orr, a University of Michigan Law School graduate and former partner at the law firm Jones Day, has been selected by Governor Rick Snyder as Detroit’s Emergency Financial Manager (EFM). As EFM, Orr will be responsible for overhauling Detroit’s finances and city services, including...
| | Federal Circuit Holds That Patent Indefiniteness Requires Insoluble Ambiguousness
Courtenay C. Brinckerhoff; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2013, previously published on May 2, 2013 In Biosig Instruments, Inc. v. Nautilus Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s finding that the claims at issue were invalid as indefinite, because the claims were not “insolubly ambiguous.” This case underscores the difficulty of challenging a patent under 35 USC...
| | House Bill 569 Changes Florida's Campaign Finance Law
Erika E. Alba, Jonathan P. Kilman, Cleta Mitchell; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2013, previously published on May 2, 2013 On May 1, 2013, Governor Rick Scott signed into law House Bill 569 (HB569), which enacts sweeping changes to Florida’s campaign finance laws. The changes will affect every elected official as well as any person who makes campaign contributions to any elected official.
| | CFPB Zeroes in on Payday Loans
Thomas I. Elkind; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2013, previously published on May 1, 2013 During the past year, the CFPB has engaged in an in-depth review of short term and small dollar loans, specifically payday loans extended by non-depository institutions and deposit advance products offered by depository institutions to their customers. These are loans that are due to be repaid on...
| | Legislation Reintroduced to Charge Investment Advisor User Fees
Michael G. Dana, Peter D. Fetzer, Terry D. Nelson; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 2, 2013, previously published on April 30, 2013 The ongoing debate about shoring up the oversight of federally registered investment advisers found another voice (or at least the reintroduction of a previous voice in the discussion) from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who reintroduced legislation in Congress on April 19, 2013 that would...
| | NLRB Issues New Guidance Advice on Confidentiality Prohibiting Discussions of Workplace Investigations
Raymond J. Carey; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 2, 2013, previously published on April 29, 2013 The National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB) ruled in its controversial Banner Health decision that employment policies that generally prohibit non-supervisory and non-management employees from discussing ongoing workplace misconduct investigations violate Section 8(a) (1) of the National...
| | Misrepresenting AUM Leads to SEC Charges
Michael G. Dana, Peter D. Fetzer, Terry D. Nelson; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 2, 2013, previously published on April 30, 2013 On April 18, 2013, the SEC charged the CEO of Seiman Capital Management, a Chicago-based investment advisory firm, with making false statements to clients and potential clients about the amount of assets it had under management (AUM). The SEC also alleges that Umesh Tandon, the firm’s CEO,...
| | Most Favored Nation ("MFN") Pricing Draws Scrutiny as Potential Anticompetitive Practice
James T. McKeown; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 2, 2013, previously published on April 29, 2013 An interesting and growing debate in the antitrust arena is whether most favored nation (“MFN”) pricing provisions are pro-competitive or anticompetitive. For many years, MFN provisions have been considered a fairly noncontroversial contract term included by purchasers in an attempt to...
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