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.com Domain Names Worldwide Seizable by U.S. Authorities

March 23, 2012

… or, as Wired puts it: Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable. But, let’s first back-up a bit…. What exactly are domain names? A domain name is an easy-to-remember mnemonic to the underlying Internet Protocol (IP) address, the true address of each website. The domain name bridgehouselaw.us, for example, points to the…

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New Hire and Re-hire Reporting – A Reminder

March 21, 2012

You plan on hiring a new employee? Great! Here is something you should keep in mind and do: According to a 1996 federal law called the “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act”(PRWORA), employers in all 50 US-states are required to report all their new hires and re-hires to a state directory. Generally, the following…

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Decision on Utah’s Immigration Law Postponed

March 21, 2012

We previously reported on our Blog about the Utah immigration law known as House Bill 497. The law allows police to check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest. U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups, who is presiding over the hearing as to the law’s constitutionality, postponed his decision. He wrote in his two page…

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Georgia Immigration Bill “SB 458” Targets Education

March 19, 2012

Last May, we reported on our Blog about Georgia’s immigration law House Bill 87. The state now seems to want to take things a step further with Senate Bill 458 (“SB 458”). State Senator Barry Loudermilk (R-Cassville), the sponsor of SB 458, is saying that college spots are being taken away from Americans and legal…

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Yahoo Springs Threat of Lawsuit on Facebook

March 19, 2012

Yahoo has been around since 1994 and was once one of the most dominant internet companies. Lately, it’s star has been sinking, while those of firms such as Google and Facebook are rising quickly. It’s a common scene in the IT industry. But Yahoo still has a couple of cards up its sleeve, notably its…

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Carolinas and Neighboring States Poised to Profit from the Offshore Wind Industry

March 19, 2012

The Charlotte Business Journal reports that while significant offshore wind projects along the Atlantic are still years away, the Carolinas in particular have been building a strong supply chain for the land-based wind power industry over the past years. This supply chain should give them a heads-up when offshore wind takes off. Wind industry companies…

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Kola-Getränke könnten krebserregend sein

March 14, 2012

Kola ist nicht gesund, das ist allseits bekannt. Das Kola jedoch so ungesund ist, war bislang nicht bekannt… Ein Zusatz in Kola-Getränken, Zuckercouleur (E 150 a – d), kann nach Art der Herstellung Anteile von 4-Methylimidazol enthalten, ein unerwünschtes Nebenprodukt, das in Verdacht steht, krebserregend zu sein. E 150 d wird in Deutschland beispielsweise für…

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International Trade and Business Symposium in Charlotte on March 22, 2012

March 13, 2012

The Managing Partner of the BridgehouseLaw Charlotte office Reinhard von Hennigs, will be presenting on employment-based immigration and visas & green cards for foreign investors on March 22, 2012, at the International Trade and Business Symposium in Charlotte, NC. The symposium will address business development topics for foreign businesses coming to the USA and for…

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Laissez-faire, where art thou?

March 13, 2012

The Economist has an excellent piece on over-regulation in America. Traditionally, the United States has been marked by its adherence to laissez-faire, the principle in which the state does not meddle in transactions between private parties. As of late, however, the United States seems to be taking the opposite path. Indeed, “[a] Florida law requires…

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USCIS vereinfacht Übermittlung von Informationen im sog. VIBE System

March 9, 2012

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) hat im Dezember 2011 das webbasierte Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) aktualisiert. Im Rahmen von VIBE greift USCIS auf die Datenbank eines kommerziellen Anbieters zurück, um Informationen über Unternehmen, die Arbeitnehmer für Visen sponsern, zu verifizieren. Dieser Anbieter ist gegenwärtig Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Obgleich USCIS explizit erklärt,…

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