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FCC Preempts State Commission Requirements That ILECs Provide DSL Service to End User Customers Subscribing to CLEC Voice Service; Issues Notice of Inquiry on Bundling of “Legacy” and “New” Services
On March 25, 2005, the FCC released an order ("Order") over two dissents (by Commissioners Adelstein and Copps) granting a petition for declaratory ruling filed by BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. ("BellSouth"). The Order preempts separate orders ...
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FCC Proposes New International Settlement Rate Rules for Telecommunications Carriers to Promote Competition and Lower Regulatory Barriers
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") proposed on August 6 to once again revise its international settlements policy in an effort to promote greater competition and lower international calling rates (the "Proposal"). The object of this ...
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FCC Releases Collocation Ruling and Further Notices of Proposed Rulemaking on Other Collocation Issues and Issues Concerning Deployment of New Network Architectures
On August 10, 2000, the FCC ruled on several important collocation issues and issued Further Notices of Proposed Rulemaking to address many other significant collocation matters and the deployment of new network architectures. In its ruling, the ...
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FCC Rule Revisions May Foretell Political Earthquake
On February 20, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") rewrote some of its rules for local telephone competition. For a number of reasons the ultimate impact of the FCC's decision on competition is unclear. What seems clear, however, is ...
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FDA Alert: February 1999
On December 28 the White House became the latest governmental entity to address the issue of whether on-line pharmacies should be regulated, proposing an initiative that would subject pharmacies selling drug products over the Internet to regulation ...
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Federal Agencies Subject to Data Quality Act
The Data Quality Act (DQA) is an attempt by Congress to ensure that federal agencies use and disseminate accurate information. The DQA requires federal agencies to issue information quality guidelines ensuring the quality, utility, objectivity and ...
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Federal Recordkeeping Requirements: Who Is A “Job Applicant”?
For decades employers with federal contracts and resulting affirmative action obligations and reporting requirements have been required to monitor their hiring practices to prevent discrimination against minority applicants. To fulfill this ...
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Financial Services Report: Spring 1998
Protection for Lenders Under California Environmental Laws FTC to Audit Bank Web Sites Lenders and Sellers Beware: Pitfalls for the Unwary Under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580b Patrick Gallagher, Of Counsel San Francisco California ...
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FindLaw Interview with Aaron Kirk Douglas of Miller Nash
Aaron Kirk DouglasL: In your estimation, what percentage of law firms have taken the first step and embraced the Internet as a means to market their practice? I would guess that a very small percentage of firms seriously market their practice ...
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First Circuit: No Duty To Disclose Conflict Between Board and CEO in IPO Registration Documents
The First Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed that Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1993 (the "1933 Act") does not impose a "specific obligation" on a company to disclose in its registration statement or prospectus the material fact that ...
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