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Octavio Lecona Morales, Luis Rubio Barnetche; Greenberg Traurig, S.C.;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 15, 2013 This is an update of the client Alert that we distributed earlier related to the bill introduced by the President of Mexico to the Mexican Congress on March 11, 2013, with the intention to amend several provisions of the Mexican Federal Constitution to provide a constitutional framework for the...
| | Boston Bombing Raises Legal Question: Balancing Public Safety And The Constitutional Rights Of U.S. Citizens
Strauss Troy Co. L.P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article May 16, 2013, previously published on May 9, 2013 The recent arrest of the living Boston Marathon bomber has raised a tough constitutional question - is he entitled to warnings under Miranda v. Arizona? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was questioned for 16 hours before he was given the warnings. Tsarnaev is an American citizen, arrested in America, and it would...
| | Mexico’s New Telecommunications Legal Framework
Alberto de la Parra; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2013, previously published on May 2013 On December 2, 2012, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto entered into the Pact for Mexico ("Pacto por México") with the major political parties. The Pact calls, among others, for an amendment to the telecommunications legal framework. Thus, the President submitted to the...
|  | Now You See It, Now You Don’t! The Demise of the Mexican Residential Trust (Fideicomiso), International Tax Consequences and Planning Considerations
Enrique Hernandez-Pulido; Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 9, 2013, previously published on April 29, 2013 Mexico has had a long standing Constitutional limitation on how foreign individuals and entities can hold title to real estate within
Mexico. Direct foreign ownership is allowed outside the “restricted zone” of 100 kilometers along the borders and 50 kilometers along the coasts, as...
| | The New Amparo Law
Cecilia Flores Rueda; Haynes and Boone, S.C.;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 8, 2013 On April 2, 2013, the Amparo Law, Regulatory of Articles 103 and 107 of the Constitution of the United Mexican Estates, was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation.
| | Constitutional Challenge to Kentucky's Death Master File Statute Rejected
Sutherland Asbill Brennan LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 6, 2013, previously published on April 4, 2013 A Kentucky state trial court has rejected a challenge to a state statute requiring life insurers to search the Social Security Administration Death Master File (DMF) and attempt to locate potential beneficiaries, holding that the law is a valid exercise of the legislature’s powers to regulate...
| | FBI Prohibited From Issuing National Security Letters
Steven J. Bonafonte, Alex V. Hernandez, Timothy G. Ronan, James T. (Tim) Shearin; Pullman & Comley, LLC;
Legal Alert/Article April 5, 2013 In a detailed opinion issued just this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California struck down an oft-used FBI counterterrorism tool. Under the statute at issue, the FBI has issued tens of thousands of so-called National Security Letters (“NSLs”) to ECSPs -...
| | Update: U.S. Court Of Appeals Upholds Constitutionality Of Sign Ordinance Because It Does Not Improperly Discriminate Between Different Forms Of Noncommercial Speech
Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann Girard A Law Corporation;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2013, previously published on March 27, 2013 A church challenged the constitutionality of a town’s sign ordinance that regulates the size, duration, and location of temporary directional signs that the church places in the area surrounding its place of worship to announce the time and location of its services. The ordinance has...
| | Supreme Court Decides Florida v. Jardines
Jon Laramore, D. Lucetta Pope; Faegre Baker Daniels;
Legal Alert/Article March 28, 2013, previously published on March 26, 2013 On March 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Florida v. Jardines, No. 11-564, holding that using a drug-sniffing dog on the front porch of a home to investigate its contents is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
| | Constitutional Reform Addressing Broadcasting and Telecommunications in Mexico
Octavio Lecona Morales, Luis Rubio Barnetche; Greenberg Traurig, S.C.;
Legal Alert/Article March 25, 2013, previously published on March 20, 2013 On March 4, 2013, the President of Mexico introduced a bill to the Mexican Congress calling for the amendment of several provisions of Articles 6, 7, 27, 28, 73, 78 and 94 of the Mexican Federal Constitution, to set forth a new constitutional framework for the regulation of the broadcasting and...
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