JD Supra Morning Brief: Dodd-Frank, Chevy Volt, Internship Program, At-Will Employment

A rose by any other name smell as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare. Our question: would a Monday by any other name be less unpleasant? 

Is Dodd-Frank at risk? Probably not, but President Obama shouldn’t let down his guard all the same… (Bloomberg Law) 

Thomas Edison never imagined problems like this: who pays to charge my tenant’s Chevy Volt? (Bernstein Shur) 

Using auto-dialers is a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. And using your finger may be as well… (Loeb & Loeb) 

Get the frack off this federal land, says a California court (King & Spalding) 

The 411 on the Obamacare “Pay or Play” rules… (Davis Wright Tremaine) 

Thinking of making your competitor’s lead sales rep an offer she can’t refuse? Read this first… (Carlton Fields) 

How can colleges and universities make sure that their internship programs don’t attract unwanted attention from the Department of Labor? (Ogletree Deakins) 

At-will employment: employer and employee are each free to terminate the relationship at any time, for any reason. But there are still rules… (Looper Reed) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Bailout for Cyprus Banks, Communication Rules for Employers, Demand for Catastrophe Bonds, Good Advice for Bankers

So, it turns out that Benjamin Franklin didn’t really say “beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” No matter – it’s Friday, and we’ll still raise a glass in his honor.

One good result of the Cyprus bank bailout? It made the Greek banking bailout look farsighted and disciplined… (Bloomberg Law) 

Follow these rules in your employee communication and everything should be just fine (Foley & Lardner) 

Are you counting down the days ‘til Myriad? (Baker Donelson) 

Demand for catastrophe bonds was up 37% in 2012 over 2011 (McCarter & English) 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: 1 - Dermochelys coriacea: 0 (Nossaman LLP) 

What does healthcare reform mean for foreign employers and employers of foreign workers? (Fisher & Phillips) 

Bank officers and directors: your new “Stay out of Jail” card is an anti-money laundering compliance program (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips) 

Has crowdfunding already begun with the SEC’s blessing? (Leonard, Street and Deinard) 

Supreme Court rules that class actions cannot be certified based on speculation alone (JD Supra Contributors) 

Pigs in a blanket? No – pigs in a condominium (Heenan Blaikie) 

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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: Price Fixing, Insurance Exchanges, Sports Gambling, Disparate Impact

Did you know that you can get the JD Supra Morning Brief delivered straight to your mailbox, five days a week? Then why haven’t you signed up yet? 

The $168.6 million settlement of price-fixing and monopolization lawsuit in favor of dairy farmers leaves producers crying over spilled milk… (Bloomberg Law) 

18-8-25. No, that’s not this year’s win-loss record of the hometown team, but the final tally of state decisions on health insurance exchanges under health care reform laws (King & Spalding) 

Drafting your annual report? Read this first (Skadden Arps) 

Lawmakers in Mississippi are considering legislation that would privatize the state’s child support enforcement functions (Lawyers.com) 

60 seconds is long enough to accept or reject a commodities trade, says the CFTC (Shipkevich PLLC) 

Not to be outdone, FINRA says that trades and trade cancellations in OTC transactions must be reported 10 seconds after they’ve taken place (Katten Muchin Rosenman) 

The odds are good that New Jersey will learn within two weeks the fate of efforts to implement sports betting in the state (Ifrah Law) 

Tenants on brownfield properties now benefit from the same cleanup liability protections as purchasers of such property. Does that mean rents will go up? (BakerHostetler) 

A recent SEC roundtable on decimalization raised more questions than it answered (no, one of them was not “what is decimalization?”) (Pepper Hamilton) 

HUD’s final rule on “disparate impact” claims could pose substantial compliance challenges for financial institutions (BuckleySandler) 

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JD Supra Weekend Reader: Homeless Bill of Rights, Workplace Love Contracts, Rising Sea Levels, Latin American Privacy

Another week, another JD Supra Weekend Reader… Enjoy! 

It puts the Heart in Hart Scott Rodino. It puts the Me in Social Media. It puts … the latest corporate law issues front and center? We think so… (Corporate Law Report) 

The proposed California Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights and Fairness Act would grant every person in the state the rights to pray, rest, and urinate in public spaces (Allen Matkins) 

The SEC should stop fighting social media, and embrace it as a tool for communicating information to the investing public (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

If you owe back taxes to the IRS, there’s no time like the present to get caught up. Really. (Duane Morris) 

Are vegans protected for their beliefs in the workplace? (Small Business Support) 

2013 promises to be a very, very busy year for healthcare reform (Carlton Fields) 

It’s not very romantic when workplace sweethearts are required to sign an employer-mandated “love contract.” But it may keep everyone out of court… (Mintz Levin) 

California high school suspends senior for her poem about the Sandy Hook tragedy (Franczek Radelet) 

Would you buy property that is vulnerable to rising sea levels? Such a disclosure could become mandatory in Delaware (McCarter & English) 

Advertisers take note: “Super Bowl,” “Super Sunday,” and just about every term related to the NFL, its teams, logos, and uniforms are trademarked. And the rules for their use are very strict… (Davis Brown) 

HUD settled a claim with a lender that refused to provide FHA financing to a lesbian couple, the first such settlement under a new rule guaranteeing equal access to housing, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status (BuckleySandler) 

The death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz is tragic. So what can be done to give meaning to his life (and death)? (Ifrah Law) 

Eleven countries in Latin America have now adopted data privacy legislation (Morrison & Foerster) 

Tag – you’re it! A Texas court rules that the Northside Independent School District’s plan to require students wear RFID tags can’t be blocked on religious grounds (Fraser Milner Casgrain) 

What to know about copyrights? These ten things, for starters… (Knobbe Martens) 

Has the National Labor Relations Board outlawed courtesy? (Fisher & Phillips) 

Wonder what the American Taxpayer Relief Act means for US taxpayers living outside the country? Read this (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler) 

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JD Supra Morning Brief: Human Trafficking, Attorney-Client Privilege, Healthcare Data Breaches, More

What’s more fun than a barrel full of monkeys? The JD Supra Morning Brief, of course:

You should know: holiday parties, human trafficking, fiscal cliff, 2013 proxy season, and more (Corporate Law Report) 

CEOs: mind your tweets (Looper Reed) 

Is attorney-client privilege at risk? (Duane Morris) 

94% of healthcare organizations surveyed have had at least one data breach in the last two years (BakerHostetler) 

Why should entrepreneurs set up a corporate entity? For starters, to segregate individual liabilities from business liabilities (techies, this means you) (Polsinelli Shughart) 

The rules of the game have changed for foreign state-owned-enterprises investing in Canada (Osler) 

Is it safe to serve on the Board of Directors of a public company? (Lane Powell) 

Want to know the key dates for complying with Dodd-Frank mandated regulations established by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission? You’ve come to the right place (Skadden Arps) 

The time has come to pay the healthcare reform piper (Fisher & Phillips) 

What can companies learn from the SEC’s Second Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program? Plenty (Cadwalader) 

Doctors and medical professionals: be the first amongst your peers to adopt the new model policy guidelines for social media in the medical profession (Pillsbury Social Media) 

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Health Reform Law: A Roundup of Obamacare Legal Analysis

You know what the Supreme Court decided on Thursday. Since then, everyone has been trying to make sense of it all.

For your reference, here’s a roundup of posts we’ve written thus far, as we organize the excellent PPACA legal analysis written by lawyers and law firms over the past few days.

You should see:

- Obamacare Ruled Constitutional: What It Means for You

One of our very first posts on the decision, this includes a long list of links to early analysis by lawyers and law firms writing on JD Supra.

A good starting point»

- 5 Immediate Steps for Businesses Now That Obamacare Upheld

“The U.S. Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn’t mean the end of legal challenges to health care reform efforts, but it does mean that employers can no longer wait to make the changes required by the law…”

Read the entire analysis for business owners»

- What the Obamacare Ruling Means for Health Care Providers

“The decision will allow institutional health providers (hospitals, etc.) to begin implementing long-considered plans for a no-longer-distant future. What might that future bring? Three themes…”

Read the entire analysis for health care providers»

- Biosimilars Benefit From Healthcare Reform Decision

In the words of law firm Dechert LLP: “Presumably it will be full speed ahead through the regulatory process, and we will see biosimilar applications for approval and attendant patent litigation before too long…”

Read the entire analysis on the benefits for biologics»

- And on JD Supra

Here’s where you can keep track of all the new law firm advisories as they come in to JD Supra. We’ll be writing additional, theme-specific blog posts in the coming days. In the meantime:

Healthcare reform updates on JD Supra»

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