True or False? What We Learned in Law This Week

True or False? It’s Friday; you know what to do:

• Employees in California are no longer allowed to work through lunch
• A “Virtual Office” in New Jersey can still lead to actual taxes
• The EEOC has launched a pilot program through which it will be auditing employer pay practices
• Within the first 24 hours of receiving a subpoena, you may send an email to all employees telling them to delete documents from their computers
• IP-intensive industries support at least 40 million jobs and contribute more than $5 trillion dollars to U.S. gross domestic product
• Students who apply for H1-B visas are eligible to stay in the United States after their student visas expire (while waiting for the H1-B to be approved)
• Egypt is seeking Red Notices for 43 people, including 17 American NGO workers who are alleged to have worked in Egypt without the proper licenses
• A national credit processor settled a class action lawsuit for $1 million after 130 million credit card numbers were stolen from its system in December 2007
• There is legislation under consideration to protect government IT systems through continuous monitoring of cybersecurity threats
• Standard insurance forms explicitly reject the notion that electronic data is property
• A new FTC report recommends no changes to United States privacy law
• Legislation to make Hydraulic Fracturing illegal in North Carolina is expected to move forward in 2012
• China holds an estimated 25,000 billion cubic meters of exploitable shale
• Qualified energy conservation bonds are allocated among states in proportion to each state’s population and are administered on a state-by-state basis
• According to a new study by McGraw-Hill Construction, 35 percent of architects, engineers, and contractors report having green jobs, which represents one-third of the industry
• Tenet Healthcare will pay $42.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by improperly billing CMS for services provided at inpatient rehabilitation facilities
• Hostess Brands hopes to raise at least $400 million in order to exit bankruptcy
• Spouses need to file bankruptcy together
• A woman’s injury during sex was deemed a legitimate work injury by a judge
• In Michigan, you can drive under the influence of medical marijuana
• The average $ debt load for a student at San Diego’s California Western School of Law is enough to dine at an Outback Steakhouse every night for more than 16 years

There you have it. Hope you did well.

This week’s gratuitous video is a shout out to one of our very favorites, who joined the great jam in the sky earlier this week. RIP Levon Helm. King Harvest has surely come:

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