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Rafael A. Morales; SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan;
White Paper May 8, 2013, previously published by Law Business Research on April 2013 The Philippine section of the Getting the Deal Through - Banking Regulation 2013 is also available for download. The publication contains a listing of concise answers to FAQs on Philippine Banking Regulation. Questions are divided into regulatory framework, supervision, resolution, capital...
|  | Court Strikes Down NLRB's Notice Posting Requirement
Taft Stettinius Hollister LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 8, 2013 On May 7, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s rule requiring employers to post a notice created by the NLRB that purported to “inform” employees about their rights under the National Labor...
| | CPUC Seeks to Revisit Controversial Decision on CEQA Process for Telecommunications Projects
Gail A. Karish, Charity B. Schiller; Best Best & Krieger LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 6, 2013 After a pause of more than a year, the CPUC has revived its effort to determine whether and how it will conduct environmental review of certain telecommunications projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and whether and how it will share authority over CEQA reviews of those...
| | Lender Code of Conduct Prepayment of Consumer Mortgages
Stewart McKelvey;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 2, 2013 In the Economic Action Plan 2010, the Harper Government committed to bring greater clarity to how mortgage prepayment penalties were calculated. As part of the commitment, on February 26, 2013 the government released a voluntary code of conduct to ensure that federally regulated financial...
| | ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-880) Regarding Certain Linear Actuators
Eric W. Schweibenz; Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 3, 2013 On April 30, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Linear Actuators (Inv. No. 337-TA-880).
| | A Lesson from the Lumber Yard: Middle District of Florida Raises Particularity Requirement for Trustee Standing in § 549 Avoidance Actions
Scott St. Amand, J. Ellsworth Summers; Rogers Towers, P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 7, 2013 One of the primary roles of a Chapter 7 trustee is to ensure that the bankruptcy estate is preserved prior to liquidation. It is no wonder, then, that the Trustee’s avoidance powers are well defined by the Bankruptcy Code. Nevertheless, a string of recent cases out of the Middle District of...
| | Joint Ventures and Double BPOL Tax
Geoffrey G. Hemphill; Vandeventer Black LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 2013 There are many reasons to use a joint venture to bid on a construction project. One potential negative consequence seen recently is the threat of paying the business license tax twice. And as Seinfeld taught us, double dipping is bad and should be avoided.
| | Birth Injury Claims May Involve More than You Think
Jeffrey H. Rasansky; Rasansky Law Firm;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013 If you hire a birth injury attorney, that attorney will look into the circumstances surrounding how your child came to be injured and try to make a determination as to the root causes of that injury. This is done with the assistance of experts and, in fact, information provided by experts is...
| | Good Samaritan Act Does Not Apply to Private Commercial Ambulance Company, But Under Certain Circumstances, Same Company Might Be Entitled to Immunity Under the Fire and Rescue Act
Colleen K. O'Brien; Semmes, Bowen & Semmes A Professional Corporation;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 2013 The primary issue in this action was whether the immunity provisions granted by Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. § § 5-603 and 5-604 applied to private commercial ambulance companies like the Defendants—TransCare Maryland, Inc. and TransCare (collectively,...
| | Profitable Rulings for Temporary Workers
Michael Rainer, Michael Rainer; GRP Rainer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 8, 2013 The German Federal Labour Court (BAG) has decided that temporary workers could potentially receive more pay.
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