True or False? What We Learned in Law This Week

Well, okay, to be fair: some of what we learned this week. Test yourself; see if you know…

True or False:

• For the 12th year in a row, identity theft was the number one complaint received by the FTC
• There is a federal bill in the works that will penalize companies for setting up overseas call centers
• A tax cannot be challenged in court until it has actually been paid
• More immigrants were deported in the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency — nearly 790,000 people — than in any other two-year period in U.S. history 
• Depending on how you do it, if you reward employees for safety in the workplace, you may be breaking the law
• Percentage of developers of mobile apps for children who adequately disclose data collection practices to parents: 78
• If you need to register as an engineer in the Kingdom of Qatar don’t commit any crimes to do with honor or integrity
• In Massachusetts, your ZIP code is NOT considered personally identifiable information
• As of January 2012, file sharing platform BitTorrent has more than 150 million active users
• Debt collectors can’t call you at all hours of the day or night, but they can definitely lie to get you to pay up
• The Los Angeles Dodgers were recently sold to a group of investors for $500 million
• Laws of nature are indeed patentable
• The courts have determined: business-driven social networking accounts do not contain trade secrets
• Employers generally cannot require reasons for sick leave
• The United States has more restrictive data and database rules than many other countries, particularly by comparison to Europe, where fewer restrictions exist
• John Hancock, one of the top 5 largest writers of individual long term care policies, is asking states to allow it to hike the premiums for existing customers by an average of 40%
• Regarding prayer in school, students don’t have the right to pray, even if they are not being disruptive
• The FCC has a rule that prevents radio stations from playing pranks or hoaxes on the air (so believe everything you hear over the air waves this April 1)

(Obviously: click through each statement to learn the answer.)

How’d you do?

This week we also learned that great covers of Hall and Oates tunes do actually exist. That’s just a fact:

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Enjoy the weekend!

Thanks to the following law firms and legal news providers for the information above: Ifrah Law, White & Case, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Bracewell & Giuliani, Lawyers.com, Patton Boggs, Baldwins IP, Bloomberg Law, Mintz Levin, Fein Such, Davis Wright Tremaine, Venable, Franczek Radelet