True or False? What We Learned in Law News This Week

Back by popular demand, our Fun Friday Feature: test yourself, see if you know which is which among this week’s law news…

True or False?

• The FTC recently fined two telemarketers $30 million for robo-calling people on the Do-Not-Call list
• If you patent a seed, and it grows into a plant that produces new seeds, those new seeds are also covered by your patent
• In the European Union, if  you are a “dominant” company but sell your goods below cost, you are violating competition law
• A woman has sued McDonald’s for forcing her into a life of prostitution
• Employees are required to make up any time they take off as FMLA leave
• The law firm Proskauer Rose LLP was founded in 1875
• It may be possible to garner proprietary information by looking at the energy consumption patterns/data of a particular business
• Approximately 18% of Americans wait until the last two weeks to prepare and file their tax returns
• The recommended industry standard for number of security personnel on board a maritime vessel, to protect against the type of ocean piracy flourishing in the western Indian Ocean: FOUR
• The Black Eyed Peas song I Gotta Feeling is not a rip-off of another song, Take a Dive, by Bryan Pringle
• If you run a drug ad on television, you don’t need to prove to the FDA that the person identified as a patient or health care practitioner is, indeed, a patient or health care practitioner
• Insurance companies are able to use “telematic” devices in cars to track such things as location, speed, and braking patterns - with hope of using the data to calculate best rates, etc.
• Over last four years, the government has collected $2.5 billion in fines for FCPA violations
• Dennis Rodman may be facing jail time for unpaid child support
• In New York City, you can now watch and record live television programming on any Internet-enabled device (including laptop and smartphone), and the major broadcasters aren’t especially pleased about that
• MF Global is the third largest bankruptcy in history
• Thanks to a recent EEOC rule, it is now easier then ever to sue an employer for age discrimination
• A New Jersey woman could get jail time for impersonating her ex-boyfriend on Facebook
• If you owe gift tax and you make a gift to someone, the IRS can hit up that person for the tax you owe
• Salmonella is a communicable disease
• A Mississippi student’s recent suspension for their rap video on Facebook and YouTube violated the First Amendment
• Nike recently filed a sports lawsuit against Reebok for selling New York Jets apparel with Tebow’s name
• If Google violated an FTC consent order by circumventing Safari privacy settings to place cookies in user browsers, the fines could be as high as $800 billion
• Thanks to President Obama’s new JOBS Act, small businesses get a $100,000 tax credit for crowdfunding their capital raising efforts on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn

This week’s gratuitous video is in memory of Jim Marshall, who gave the world his eponymous amplifier, aka the Marshall stack. Rock and roll has never been the same. RIP Jim Marshall

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Thanks to the following JD Supra contributors for the source work mentioned above: Howard Ullman, K&L Gates, Franczek Radelet, Proskauer, Reed Smith, Loeb & Loeb, McDermott, Barger & Wolen, Michael Volkov, Bloomberg Law, Mintz Levin, Harold Shepley, Morgan Lewis, Morrison & Foerster, Chuck Rubin, Anthony Caruso, Cullen and Dykman, Lawyers.com, Poyner Spruill, Jimi Hendrix…