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Abby Matousek, Jason Rosenstock; Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky Popeo P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2013, previously published on February 18, 2013 President Obama touched on both new and old initiatives in his State of the Union though avoided rhetorical attacks against large financial institutions. Instead, that torch was picked up by Senator Elizabeth Warren, who did not disappoint her supporters on the left with her sharp questioning of...
|  | AMR Decision Highlights Bankruptcy Court Split on Enforceability of Ipso Facto Clauses
Leonard Weiser-Varon; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 20, 2013, previously published on February 20, 2013 A recent ruling in the American Airlines bankruptcy case enforcing an automatic acceleration upon bankruptcy provision serves as a reminder that the enforceability of so-called ipso facto provisions in debt instruments remains an unsettled, forum-dependent question.
| | New York City on the Verge of Prohibiting Discrimination Based on an Individual's Unemployment Status
Michael S. Arnold; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 19, 2013, previously published on February 14, 2013 New York City employers beware: The New York City Council has once again acted to expand the nation’s broadest anti-discrimination law - this time to prohibit discrimination against New York City’s unemployed. While several other jurisdictions (such as New Jersey, Oregon and Washington...
| | California Supreme Court Gives California’s Unfair Competition Law More Coverage
Brandon E. Barker, Evan Nadel, Harvey Saferstein; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 19, 2013, previously published on February 11, 2013 The California Supreme Court, in Aryeh v. Canon Business Solutions, Inc., 2013 WL 263509 (January 24, 2013), resolved a split in the lower appellate courts over the applicability of common law rules of accrual to the statute of limitations in California’s Unfair Competition Law (Cal. B&P Code...
| | President Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order
Amy Malone; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 19, 2013, previously published on February 14, 2013 “America must ... face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. Now, we know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private emails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power...
| | The New HIPAA Omnibus Rule & Your Liability - A Detailed Review
Alden J. Bianchi, Dianne J. Bourque, Kimberly J. Gold, Cynthia J. Larose; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 19, 2013, previously published on February 17, 2013 As we have reported in this blog, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released final regulations containing modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules (Omnibus Rule). Proposed regulations were...
| | MSRB Proposes Rule G-47 on Time of Trade Disclosure Obligations
Leonard Weiser-Varon; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 18, 2013, previously published on February 13, 2013 MSRB Rule G-17 has been interpreted by the MSRB as requiring a broker or dealer (“broker”) to disclose to its customer, at or prior to the time of trade of a municipal security, all material information about the transaction known by the broker, as well as material information about the...
| | FTC Issues Favorable Clinical Integration Advisory Opinion to Norman, Oklahoma PHO
Christi J. Braun, Bruce D. Sokler; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 18, 2013, previously published on February 14, 2013 Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much attention has been paid to the antitrust treatment of Accountable Care Organizations, provider ventures contemplated by the ACA that the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have said are, essentially, clinically integrated...
| | Securities Regulators Provide Good News, Not-so-Good News for Section 529 Programs
Leonard Weiser-Varon; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 18, 2013, previously published on February 15, 2013 Municipal securities regulators this week provided previews of upcoming regulatory action that suggest that one issue of concern to Section 529 college savings programs will fade away while another one may appear on the horizon.
| | Hemant Taneja’s “Energy is Not a Zero-Sum Game Anymore”: The End of the ‘Clean vs. Dirty’ Debate and the Rise of Advanced Energy Technologies
Sahir Surmeli; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article February 15, 2013, previously published on February 12, 2013 The rapid progress of advanced energy technologies and energy efficiency in the “conventional” areas of oil and gas as well as in the “clean” sources of wind, solar, and geothermal energy is allowing countries to do more from less energy. However, the polarizing debate still...
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