JD Supra Morning Brief: Dodd-Frank, Spider-Man, Paperless Visas, Money Transfers

Nothing like a long weekend of Bitcoin farming to make you appreciate heading back to the office on a Monday morning…

If Dodd-Frank already fixed “Too Big To Fail,” why do we need another law? (Bloomberg Law) 

Sleep easy, America: “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” won’t be going dark anytime soon… (Foley Hoag) 

How’s that transition to a paperless I-94 going? Well, it’s complicated… (Dinsmore) 

Yours, mine, and … mine again. And I’m pretty sure that one’s mine, too (Law Offices of Adrian H. Altshuler & Associates) 

Everything you need to know about social media password protection and privacy in the workplace (Littler) 

Coming to America: the manufacturing edition. Brought to you by the US fracking industry… (King & Spalding) 

Yeah, but it’s going to be a lot harder to turn the city around now that wrestling is off the agenda… (Foley & Lardner) 

Mistreated by a money transfer company? Tell the CFPB… (Davis Wright Tremaine) 

Sacré bleu – theft of trade secrets could become a crime in France… (Orrick) 

Small and mid-sized companies face important cybersecurity risks, too (Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Deleting Evidence, Taxing Derivatives, Gambling Online, Selling MPGs

Time to get serious. Or at least get a second cup of coffee (and a cherry Danish) to go with this JD Supra Morning Brief:

Is it ever NOT a good idea to delete a social media account? (JD Supra Law News) 

A tax of $0.0006 per derivatives transaction could raise $300 million a year for the CFTC… (Shipkevich) 

Workplace violence can have a devastating toll that continues long after the violence ends (Fisher & Phillips) 

Maybe if they’d spent a little less time at the hookah and more time reading their cable contract, they wouldn’t be in this situation… (Varnum) 

“Can we fire that guy in France?” “Hold on, lemme check…” (White & Case) 

Fire up the laptop – Daddy needs a new pair of shoes! (Jeff Ifrah) 

Former NFL players are finally getting their day in court to talk about football-related head injuries (The Rothenberg Law Firm) 

Think you want to invest in Bitcoins? Read this first… (Pepper Hamilton) 

Getting a credit card just got easier for stay-at-home spouses and partners (Ballard Spahr) 

Will it ever be legal to sell digital goods? (JD Supra Legal Perspective)  

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Cretaceous Park, Rasta Appropriation, Pregnancy Discrimination, Eyewitness Identification

Happy Law Day! How are you celebrating? Our suggestion: a double espresso, a blueberry scone, and the JD Supra Morning Brief…

Developing a mobile app? Develop a data collection and user privacy policy first… (Fenwick & West) 

We’ve already bought our tickets for a stay at Cretaceous Park… (MBHB) 

Yes, jerk.com, cheaterville.com, and datingpsychos.com are real websites. Here’s what to know if you end up on one… (Duane Morris) 

Yes Rasta appropriation is art, says appeals court #Irie (Foley Hoag) 

The EEOC continues to target pregnancy-related discrimination in the workplace (Poyner Spruill) 

April was a busy month for FCPA regulators (and the individuals they prosecuted, too) (Thomas Fox) 

Is “being green” easier now than it was for Kermit the Frog? Not when trying to obtain insurance coverage… (Sedgwick) 

Mistaken eyewitness identification has underpinned 75% of the convictions overturned by DNA analysis… (Raiser & Kenniff) 

The best defense against trade secret theft begins at home… (Snell & Wilmer) 

What’s to know about California’s Right to Know Act? Plenty… (Mintz Levin) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Illinois Fracking Legislation, Kindness in Life, Space Flight Insurance, Death Master File

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium. Or the JD Supra Morning Brief…

One step forward, three steps back for Illinois’ collaborative legislation on fracking? (LXBN) 

Space: the final frontier… For insurance companies? (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips) 

Be kind. Enough said. (McManis Faulkner) 

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act puts the burden on the copyright owner – not the website – to track infringement. Don’t believe us? Ask Viacom (or Google) (Looper Reed) 

Wonder what’s going on with the legalization of crowdfunding? Read this (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

Last year the Supreme Court said law enforcement couldn’t attach GPS-tracking devices to a vehicle without a warrant. But there may be exceptions… (Jeff Ifrah) 

The new immigration reform bill is 844 pages long. Here’s a good summary (Morgan Lewis) 

Five board members. Three recess appointments. One president. (Barger & Wolen) 

Investors get important privacy protections to reduce the risk of identity theft (Morrison & Foerster) 

Frankly, we’d feel better if the Senate Finance Committee first heard testimony on proposed new names for the Death Master File… (Sutherland Asbill & Brennan) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Dodgeball, Robosigning, Guinea Pigs, The Donald

Can’t decide what to wear? If it helps, the JD Supra Morning Brief goes well with just about anything:

Interesting look at the Supreme Court first-sale doctrine ruling, from the lawyer who convinced the justices that it’s OK to resell any book, regardless of where it’s made (Bloomberg Law) 

French, Italian, British, German, Spanish, and Dutch data protection authorities agree: Google’s privacy policy isn’t what it should be… (Proskauer) 

Dodgeball and other “human targeting” games eliminated from a New Hampshire school district (Cullen & Dykman) 

Are we all a guilty of a little “robosigning” from time to time? (Ifrah Law) 

What does it mean to cooperate with an SEC or a DOJ investigation? And what are the benefits? (Morrison & Foerster) 

Happy birthday, JOBS Act! (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

What does the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance look for in cybersecurity disclosures of public companies? Let’s ask ‘em… (Mintz Levin) 

Bill Maher trumps The Donald: Donald Trump dismisses his unwinnable breach-of-contract lawsuit against the comedian (Greenberg Glusker) 

Student sues university over right to keep a guinea pig in her dorm room, and other higher education legal news (Saul Ewing) 

What to do with employees who use – or misuse – social media? (Pullman & Comley) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Overseas Cash Cache, Fracking Performance Standards, Patent Licensing Exchange, Stolen Sperm Suit

You know, eating two pounds of chocolate is easier than you might think. Especially if you start first thing in the morning…

Bigger IS better for San Francisco (Allen Matkins) 

Frito-Lay says the Department of Labor cannot come back for seconds when auditing the company (Proskauer) 

We’ve said it before, and we’ll certainly say it again: if you’re hiding money overseas, it’s time to come clean (Pepper Hamilton) 

What should employers now do to prepare for implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014? Quite a bit, actually… (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips) 

What so great about the fracking performance standards recently developed for the Marcellus and Utica Shales? Environmental groups AND oil and gas companies are on board (Reed Smith) 

Dmitriy Shirokov’s “settlement fraud” lawsuit against the group that sued him for illegal downloads is a Far Cry from a class action, says a federal judge (Foley Hoag) 

Japan is joining talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And that could spell trouble for US automakers (Foley & Lardner) 

Did the DOJ give IPXI’s proposed patent licensing exchange the green light? (Morrison & Foerster) 

Truth is stranger than fiction: woman steals ex-boyfriend’s sperm from sperm bank, has child, likely to get child support from donor (Lanier Law Group) 

Here’s a first look at the new Cyprus capital control and banking laws (Ropes & Gray) (Harney Westwood & Riegels) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Same-Sex Marriage, Yellow Snow, NFL Concussions, Dawn Raids

Since when did they start making the weekends only two days long? Sheesh. At least we’ve got a new Morning Brief:

Tomorrow’s the big day! So what do we need to know today about the Supreme Court oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases? (Bloomberg Law) 

An 883-pound fish, yellow snow, and copyrighted grades of football players, all in the same update. Really – does it get any better than this? (Proskauer) 

Trying to sort through the complexities of the NFL concussion litigation is giving us a headache (Barger & Wolen) 

Can consumer watchdog CFPB “level the playing field” in the auto finance industry? And if they do, will it actually help consumers? (Ballard Spahr) 

Repackaging and selling AP news articles is not “fair use,” says appeals court (Davis Wright Tremaine) 

Agree to disagree? Not this time – environmentalists and fracking industry agree on voluntary standards (BakerHostetler) 

Do mortgage lenders discriminate against women? Yes, says a new study (BuckleySandler) 

Every company that does business in the EU could find itself the target of an unannounced antitrust dawn raid (McDermott Will & Emery) 

How much does big pharma spend on research and development? A lot (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff) 

Abbott shakes off a lawsuit claiming Ensure doesn’t deliver its promised health benefits (Morrison & Foerster) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Godzilla, Google, Shark Wrestling, Fresh Starts

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Waiting for Godzilla, Diamonds are Forever, and Long Tall Sally to enter the public domain? Have a seat – it’ll be a while… (Bloomberg Law) 

Collecting info from unsecured wireless networks across the country while taking pictures for Street View costs Google $7 million (Ifrah Law) 

This is either the title of a new children’s book or valuable advice on keeping your job: “Don’t Wrestle a Shark While on Holiday in Australia” (Orrick) 

Filing personal bankruptcy? You’ll want to know the difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 (John Skiba) 

Need a Fresh Start? The Internal Revenue Service might be the place to look (Duane Morris) 

Wait – Facebook is fighting to keep user data private? Yep, but not for the reasons you might think… (Morrison Foerster) 

Kivalina, the Alaska village that has spent five years suing energy companies for their role in the global warming that is inundating the town, has appealed its case to the Supreme Court (McCarter & English) 

Got questions about Brazilian labor and employment law? We’ve got answers (Proskauer) 

Anonymous whistleblowers who report corporate misconduct to the SEC create special challenges for the companies accused of wrongdoing (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

Worried about food safety? You’re not alone (Is That Legal?) 

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JD Supra Weekend Reader: Village People, Email Snooping, Pet Treats, Huff Po, DOMA

Things to be thankful for today: you’re not Julius Caesar. (Though if you were, and you were reading this, you could go back in time and head to the beach instead of the Senate on March 15, 44 BC…). And the JD Supra Weekend Reader:

What’s new(s) at the SEC? Five Year Enforcement Limitation, FCPA Charges for Foreign Nationals, and More… (Corporate Law Report) 

OK, so the 70s called, and the the Village People’s lead singer wants his copyrights back (Loeb & Loeb) 

It’s taken the FTC 13 years to update its disclosure guidelines for online advertising. How long is that in Internet years? (Foley Hoag) 

Fans of Ziggy Stardust aren’t likely to find this update on Village at Camp Bowie particularly interesting, but Chapter 11 creditors will… (Pepper Hamilton) 

Yours, mine, and ours: Harvard officials learn an important lesson when exercising their rights to search employee emails… (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

Consumer fraud was the top complaint logged in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network database in 2012 (Foley & Lardner) 

Large employers must provide minimum essential healthcare coverage to at least 95% of full-time employees and their dependents to avoid paying under “pay-or-play” rules of the Affordable Care Act (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

Keep up the good work: the nation’s biggest banks have begun to disclose data security risks and breaches in public SEC filings (Mintz Levin) 

The first mandatory recall made by the FDA under the authority of the Food Safety Modernization Act was issued for pet treats (Morgan Lewis) 

From zero to three in (about) 60 days: what the competing immigration reform proposals look like (Ogletree Deakins) 

New Jersey’s online gambling law is expected to go into effect sometime over the next nine months (Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment & Technology Team) 

First, ewww. Second, double-ewww. And third, Washington Supreme Court may have opened the floodgates to a wave of product liability lawsuits based on “objectionable” conduct (Sedgwick LLP) 

Want file a housing discrimination complaint? There’s an app for that (y también en español) (BuckleySandler) 

According to McAfee’s former VP for threat research, there are two types of companies: those that know they’ve experienced a cybersecurity breach, and those that don’t know it yet (Dechert) 

The truth about deceptive advertising… (Looper Reed) 

Is Equifax selling your salary information? (Ifrah Law) 

Subway claims to have sold about four billion feet of sandwiches between 2000 and 2008 (Winthrop & Weinstine) 

Wouldn’t it be great to get health care reminders from your doctor via text messages? If it weren’t illegal, that is… (BakerHostetler) 

Lawyer learns the hard way that attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply to conversations with friends who are lawyers (Burns & Levinson) 

Did Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer steal the idea that became The Huffington Post? (Sheppard Mullin) 

Plan to borrow money from family and friends to get your startup off the ground? Read this first (Scott Legal Services) 

New protections for government contractors and subcontractors who blow the whistle go into effect on July 1, 2013 (Morgan Lewis) 

The Supreme Court may overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, but they’re certainly not going to do it before April 15. Here’s what same-sex couples need to know now about filing taxes (Baker Donelson) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Village People, Online Advertising, Harvard Snooping, Ziggy Stardust

We’re still feeling the effects of Pi Day… Maybe spending 3.14 hours at Baker’s Square wasn’t such a good idea after all? Never mind – the JD Supra Morning Brief is here, and all is well in the world again:

Derivatives nearly destroyed the global financial system in 2008 – so the feds cracked down and implemented strict regulations for derivatives right after the financial crisis, right? Right? (Bloomberg Law) 

OK, so the 70s called, and the the Village People’s lead singer wants his copyrights back (Loeb & Loeb) 

It’s taken the FTC 13 years to update its disclosure guidelines for online advertising. How long is that in Internet years? (Foley Hoag) 

Tired of hearing about cybersecurity yet? Too bad – people are just getting started… (McDermott Will & Emery) 

Fans of Ziggy Stardust aren’t likely to find this update on Village at Camp Bowie particularly interesting, but Chapter 11 creditors will… (Pepper Hamilton) 

That was a great fundraiser. Can we put the photos on the company Facebook page? (McAfee & Taft) 

We could all use a little more capital, but it’s a bigger crisis when Britain’s largest banks are short… (Shipkevich PLLC) 

If sugar were horses… Nah, that doesn’t work. (But restaurant owners should prepare for supplier crises all the same) (Looper Reed & McGraw) 

Sleep easy, Australia – international arbitration is safe… (Baker & McKenzie Australia) 

Yours, mine, and ours: Harvard officials learn an important lesson when exercising their rights to search employee emails… (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

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