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Legal Alert/Article January 29, 2013, previously published on January 25, 2013 On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury Department) and U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final Treasury Regulations (Final Regulations) under the tax provisions commonly referred to as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
| | Sixth Circuit Will Not Rehear Quality Stores Decision that Severance Pay in Connection with a Reduction in Force is not Subject to FICA; Supreme Court Next Step?
Paul M. Hamburger, Elizabeth M. Mills, Andrea S. Rattner; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 29, 2013, previously published on January 16, 2013 On September 7, 2012, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc. that severance payments to former employees pursuant to an involuntary reduction in force are not taxable "wages" for purposes of Social Security and Medicare withholding under the...
| | BNSF and OSHA Reach Significant Whistleblower-Related Accord
Lucas Markowitz, Steven J. Pearlman; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 29, 2013, previously published on January 25, 2013 In January 2013, after over 30 FRSA complaints were lodged by BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) employees, OSHA and BNSF reached an agreement (Accord), where BNSF agreed to modify certain policies and practices alleged to interfere with employees’ rights under the whistleblowing provisions of the...
| | New Reporting Company Disclosure Requirements for Activities Relating to Iran
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Legal Alert/Article January 29, 2013, previously published on January 25, 2013 On August 10, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, or the TRA. Section 219 of the TRA amends Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to add subsection (r), which requires an issuer that files periodic reports with the...
| | Jury Awards $960,000 In First Trial Under New Mexico Whistleblower Law
Noa M. Baddish, Steven J. Pearlman; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 29, 2013, previously published on January 25, 2013 On January 18, 2013, a former New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) employee prevailed in the first case to reach trial under the state’s Whistleblower Protection Act (NMWPA). Feliciano v. New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, et al., No. D-101-cv-2010-02008 (First Judicial...
| | District Court Requires SOX Plaintiff To Assert Shareholder Fraud, Consistent with Statute’s Purpose
Lloyd B. Chinn, Rachel Fischer; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 28, 2013, previously published on January 17, 2013 The U.S. District Court for the District of North Carolina recently dismissed a plaintiff’s Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint on the ground that the plaintiff had not alleged shareholder fraud. Gauthier v. Shaw Group, Inc., No. 12-cv-00274, 2012 WL 6043012 (W.D.N.C. Dec. 4, 2012). This...
| | Massachusetts AGO Enters Into Another Settlement For Data Security Violations
Amy Crafts; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 28, 2013, previously published on January 22, 2013 For the fourth time since the Massachusetts data security regulations took effect in March 2010, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”) has settled allegations that Massachusetts-based entities violated the regulations. On January 7, 2013, Suffolk Superior Court...
| | American Taxpayer Relief Act Affects Mass Transit Benefits and Other Employee Benefits
Emily Erstling, Paul M. Hamburger, Lisa Berkowitz Herrnson, Steven D. Weinstein; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 28, 2013, previously published on January 18, 2013 On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ("ATRA") into law. ATRA, adopted as an alternative to stepping over the "fiscal cliff," preserves most of the Bush-era tax cuts and reinstates several other lapsed tax provisions. Several...
| | Facebook and Netflix now “in a Relationship”; Obama Signs Bill Updating Video Privacy Law
Jessica Goldenberg; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 28, 2013, previously published on January 23, 2013 On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed into law H.R. 6671, an amendment to the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (VPPA) codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2710, which will permit companies, such as Netflix, to obtain advance consent from consumers to automatically share their movie viewing...
| | Illinois Appellate Court Examines Number of Occurrences and Limits Application of Time-and-Space Test
Bradley J. Lorden; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 28, 2013, previously published on January 23, 2013 On January 11, 2013, the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District in Chicago issued an important decision concerning the test for the number of occurrences under an insurance policy. Ware et al. v. First Specialty Insurance Corp., No. 1-11-3340, 2012 IL App (1st) 113340 (Ill. App. Ct. Jan....
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