“In most situations, no more tax-free shopping on the internet,” our colleague Mark Snider said based upon a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In Wayfair v. South Dakota, the court overruled two older decisions that allowed retailers to avoid collecting sales tax on customers outside of its home state and outside other states where the retailer
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Food & Agriculture Quarterly: March 2018
I am delighted to bring to you the second edition of Food & Agricultural Quarterly (FAQ). This industry-focused publication is designed to focus on the key issues food and agriculture industry stakeholders are facing – regardless of whether you are a small, family-owned farming operation or international food producer. This edition contains three very diverse articles…
FTC revises HSR and interlocking directorate thresholds
On Jan. 26, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the notification thresholds for filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR), as well as certain other values under the HSR rules. As background, the HSR Act requires that acquisitions of voting securities or assets that exceed certain thresholds be disclosed…
Porter Wright presents Food & Agriculture Quarterly
Welcome to our inaugural issue of Food & Agricultural Quarterly (FAQ). This new, industry-focused publication was designed to focus on the key issues food and agriculture industry stakeholders are facing – regardless of whether you are a small, family-owned farming operation or international food producer.
In our first issue, we bring together three rather diverse…
DCMA agent requirements changing
Bob Morgan, our colleague at Technology Law Source, shares detail about the upcoming Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) agent filing change that takes effect Dec. 31.
This agent filing is a necessary element of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor provision (Title II of the DMCA (the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act…
Is it time to change the focus of the antitrust laws? The debate is heating up
There is currently a tug-of-war going on over the heart and soul of the antitrust laws. Well, perhaps that is a bit dramatic. But it is certainly fair to say that there is surging sentiment that the antitrust laws, and specifically antitrust enforcement, should be recalibrated to address concerns that are “populist” in nature. This…
Access to “data” – the new competitive battlefield
Data is a buzzword popular in the media today. Most often we hear or read the word in conjunction with a breach of a major retailer or healthcare company. It is also used by companies to target us with behavioral advertising. But it also has become the new coin of the realm. Being neither a…
Don’t wannacry? Help your IT staff prevent ransomware
The latest cyberattack making the news (and some say the largest to date) is the “Wannacry” ransomware. The ransomware looks for computers containing an operating system vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows platform and then appears to infect computers… without a single click required. My colleague, Brian Hall, outlines the risks employers may face when dealing with cyberattacks — as well as how…
NAD shoots down Bowflex’s claims of dramatic weight loss as unsupported; disclaimer not enough
Nautilus’s Bowflex TreadClimber just became the latest example of enforcement action against a health and fitness product by the National Advertising Division (NAD), a voluntary advertising self-regulatory body administered by the Better Business Bureau. More specifically, the NAD determined that Nautilus could not support its claim that one could lose substantial weight solely by using…
FTC revises HSR and interlocking directorate thresholds
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the notification thresholds for filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR), as well as certain other values under the HSR rules. As background, the HSR Act requires that acquisitions of voting securities or assets that exceed certain thresholds be disclosed to U.S.…