JD Supra Weekend Reader: Tip Pools, Bitcoin Regulation, Medical Marijuana, Workplace Bullying

Big plans for the weekend? Better get your law news fix right now then:

This interview of Christine Beshar, the first female partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1971, will make your day (Bloomberg Law) 

Do you know your rights under HIPAA privacy and security rules? You’d better… (Proskauer) 

There’s more to an employee tip pool than a jar on the counter… (McNees Wallace & Nurick) 

You can’t sell ice in the wintertime or neckties in a nudist colony. Is it the same for lawyers helping companies deal with climate change? (McCarter & English) 

Twinkies and a Beer? Ah, yes, you must be talking about buying a bankrupt company… (Rogers Towers) 

Bitcoin isn’t Monopoly money, and that worries the nation’s futures trading watchdog (Shipkevich) 

Colorado has allowed medical marijuana use for more than 12 years. So why was a licensed user fired from his job for failing a drug test? (Is That Legal?) 

No good deed goes unpunished by the IRS… unless you can structure your Paid Time Off and leave donation program right (Davis Brown) 

Senators to FERC and the CFTC: you’d better figure out how to play nicely together… (Ballard Spahr)

Could you recognize workplace bullying amongst your employees? (Fisher & Phillips) 

SEC to Harrisburg, PA: securities laws apply to municipal officials, too… (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

Can Congress write cybersecurity legislation that allows the sharing of threat information while protecting the privacy of personal information? (Orrick) 

“Gray divorce” involves a particular set of issues. Here’s what you need to know… (Burns & Levinson) 

The new FTC guidance on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act is out. And none too soon… (Morrison & Foerster) 

Think you might install solar panels in the new house you’re building? If you live in Lancaster, CA, it’s the law… (Foley & Lardner) 

New Mexico’s new Fair Pay for Women Act will go into effect on June 14, 2013. Here’s what it means for employers in the state (Proskauer) 

IRS to higher education: you’re not doing it right (and we’re going to teach you how…) (Morgan Lewis) 

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) 

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

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Workplace Bullying, Trade Fraud, Cybersecurity Laws, Gray Divorce

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What does a 17-year old multi-millionaire worry about when starting his first job? The usual stuff… (Bloomberg Law) 

Could you recognize workplace bullying amongst your employees? (Fisher & Phillips) 

Singapore wants to become your favorite international destination for … dispute resolution (Foley & Lardner) 

There is no “free pass” to commit fraud in trade cases (King & Spalding) 

SEC to Harrisburg, PA: securities laws apply to municipal officials, too… (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

Can Congress write cybersecurity legislation that allows the sharing of threat information while protecting the privacy of personal information? (Orrick) 

“Gray divorce” involves a particular set of issues. Here’s what you need to know… (Burns & Levinson) 

Does using your own mobile device for work mean your employer can access your personal information? Maybe… (Pillsbury) 

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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: 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: Insurance Kickbacks, H-1B Lottery, EU Cyber-Defense, One-Child Policy

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There’s gold in them cybersecurity hills… For law firms, anyway (Bloomberg Law) 

You’ve got mail: judge orders service of process via Facebook (BakerHostetler) 

Four national mortgage insurers have been fined a total of $15 million for provided kickbacks to lenders in exchange for business (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

The European Union is beefing up its cyber-defense strategy (Skadden Arps) 

Maximizing the value of your business for your heirs requires a long-term transfer program. Here’s how to get started (Pepper Hamilton) 

What are the costs – and benefits – of imposing cost-benefit analyses on government agencies? (Foley Hoag) 

Is China planning to get rid of its “one-child” policy so that it can stay competitive? (Fisher & Phillips) 

What to do when the H-1B visa cap is met less than a week after the application process begins? Award the visas through a lottery, of course… (Corporate Law Report) 

EU transaction tax? Bad idea, says one of the world’s largest inter-bank brokers (Shipkevich PLLC) 

Consumer data privacy and data breach claims are beginning to gain traction, and that means companies improve data security now (Sedgwick LLP) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Principles on Privacy, @#%*& on Facebook, Picasso on Loan, CBP on Shoes

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Sigmund Freud, Marx Brothers, and Bernie Madoff. No – we’re not kidding (Bloomberg Law) 

Wouldn’t the world be a better place if ALL companies released guiding principles on freedom of expression and privacy? (Foley Hoag) 

Don’t loan your Picasso to the art museum without reading this update (Sheppard Mullin) 

Hey! Keep your @#%*& opinions about the employees off of your Facebook page! (Looper Reed & McGraw) 

The world’s largest interest-rate swap clearinghouse had a major information technology failure last New Year’s Eve (Shipkevich PLLC) 

Excuse me: can we share that umbrella? It’s raining money – or it will be soon… (MoFo Tech) 

Worried your customers won’t be able to pay for the auto parts you’re supplying? (Foley & Lardner) 

Freddie Mac has sued 15 banks and the British Bankers’ Association for manipulation the LIBOR rate (BuckleySandler) 

Your tax dollars at work: US Customs and Border Protection has proposed a new method for determining the proper classification of footwear under the country’s tariff laws (Duane Morris) 

Kicked off the basketball team for not cutting your hair? You’re out of luck, kid (Franczek Radelet) 

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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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JD Supra Morning Brief: HJ Heinz, Consumer Fraud, Animal Testing, Buy American

Sudoku, crossword puzzles, KenKen, ha! Be the first on the bus to take the JD Supra Morning Brief’s True or False quiz instead. And when you’re done, send us an email with your T/F answers and you might win a JD Supra hoody! 

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T or F? The acquisition of H.J. Heinz by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital took less than two months to come together (Bloomberg Law) 

T or F? Consumer fraud was the top complaint logged in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network database in 2012 (Foley & Lardner) 

T or F? Richard Cordray, nominated by President Obama to be Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was put through the wringer at his Senate Banking Committee hearing (Ballard Spahr) 

T or F? Large employers must provide minimum essential healthcare coverage to at least 85% of full-time employees and their dependents to avoid paying under “pay-or-play” rules of the Affordable Care Act (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

T or F? The nation’s biggest banks continue to avoid disclosure of data security risks and breaches in public SEC filings (Mintz Levin) 

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

T or F? The National Labor Relations Board will petition the Supreme Court for review of the DC Court of Appeals ruling in Noel Canning v. NLRB (JD Supra Contributors) 

T or F? Implementation of Europe’s total ban on animal testing of cosmetic products was delayed for 90 days from its planned March 11, 2013 start (K&L Gates) 

T or F? Commissions paid to an independent sales representative hawking medical equipment violate the federal anti-kickback statute (BakerHostetler) 

T or F? Canada is fighting the U.S. “Buy American Act” via the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations in Singapore (King & Spalding) 

T or F? Shoppers in Los Angeles County have to pay a 10¢ tax on every paper carryout bag they receive from retailers (Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Dodd-Frank, Immigration Reform, Objectionable Conduct, Paper Bags

Start your day with a hearty helping of law news, hot and fresh from the JD Supra oven:

The Outgoing Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission thinks that the Dodd-Frank rules are at least two-thirds complete (MarketsReformWiki) 

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) 

Community banks may not need those holding companies after all… (Spilman Thomas & Battle) 

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) 

Los Angeles County’s ten-cent charge for paper carryout bags is not a tax, says appeals court (Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard) 

Just what do corporate social responsibility committees do, anyway? (Foley Hoag) 

March isn’t shaping up to be a very good month for Mayor Bloomberg (Mintz Levin) 

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