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Michael Caputo, Rebecca M. Kuhns; McDonald Hopkins LLC;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2013, previously published on May 31, 2013 This week the Senate Finance Committee accepted a substitute version of House Bill 59, the biennial budget bill. The upper chamber removed the House’s proposal to cut the state income tax by seven percent, instead opting to restore the governor’s proposal to provide small business...
| | Shareholder Activism is on the Rise - Is your Board Ready?
Jeff Barnes, Jason M. Saltzman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2013, previously published on May 23, 2013 Over the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in the amount of interaction between shareholders and boards of directors of North American companies. One of the early notable examples occurred in 2007 when Pfizer announced that its board of directors was inviting its largest...
| | Trade Associations and the Competition Act: No Such Thing as Safety in Numbers
Renai Williams; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2013, previously published on June 4, 2013 While trade associations provide a forum for members to communicate and collaborate, there are certain topics that should never be discussed. All too frequently, however, association members discuss price, customer allocation, supply issues and bid or tendering practices under the guise of...
| | Mandatory Data Breach Notification Coming to Australia
Cynthia J. Larose; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 Privacy law is once again on the Government’s legislation reform agenda with the introduction recently of the Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013.
| | It Is Always Wise (And Sometimes Required) To Notarize Commercial Real Estate Leases
Kohrman Jackson Krantz PLL;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 It’s not enough to “get it in writing” with regard to enforceability of a commercial lease of real property in Ohio, although that is a necessary first step. Ohio’s “Statute of Frauds” (ORC Section 1335.04) with respect to leases, provides in pertinent part that...
|  | Governor and Legislators Revisit Prop. 65
Morris Polich Purdy LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 30, 2013 Governor Brown announced reforms he is seeking to strengthen and restore the intent of the California Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly known as “Prop. 65.” Prop. 65 imposes both a discharge prohibition and a warning requirement for certain identified...
| | The Second Opinion: Class Actions Do Not Trump Physician-Patient Confidentiality Rights
Brandon Kain; McCarthy Tétrault LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 3, 2013 The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that plaintiffs in a certified class action cannot compel the production of information about class members from the third party physicians who treated them. The decision in Logan v. Hong, 2013 BCCA 249 is an important reaffirmation of the confidentiality...
| | Litigation after the AIA: More of the Same?
Bruce D. George, Michael C. Greenbaum, Jay P. Lessler, Tara Laster Marcus, Peter S. Weissman; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on June 2013 Two provisions of the September 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) were adopted in an apparent attempt to reform certain aspects of patent litigation - Section 299 related to joinder of multiple defendants and section 298 related to advice of counsel and willful infringement....
| | Investment Management Guidance on Social Media Filings
Michael G. Dana, Peter D. Fetzer, Terry D. Nelson; Foley & Lardner LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 30, 2013 The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management has issued guidance for mutual funds in response to questions about whether certain interactive content posted in social media, chat rooms, or other “real-time electronic forums” is advertising that should be filed under the...
| | Proposed Law to Extend Polanco Act Powers to Local Government Agencies
Morris Polich Purdy LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 5, 2013, previously published on May 30, 2013 California Assembly Bill 440 (AB 440) would amend the Polanco Redevelopment Act (Health & Safety Code section 33549) by authorizing local government agencies including cities, counties and housing authorities, as opposed to only Redevelopment Agencies, to compel responsible parties to clean up...
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