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September 20, 2017

Boarding a Plane in the U.S.? Better Have Your Passport Ready     You may have noticed new TSA signs at the airport recently. It reads “starting January 22, 2018, you will need a driver’s license or ID form a state compliant with the REAL ID Act, a state that has extension for compliance, or an…

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September 14, 2017

Recent Cybersecurity Breach Allows Hackers Direct Access to US Power Grid Controls In 2016, spending and rendered services for cybersecurity rose to more than $80 billion, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down. The development of new technology poses new challenges for cybersecurity firms under pressure to evolve at the same pace.…

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September 5, 2017

Kroger v. Lidl: End of The Trademark Litigation   Shortly after opening its first stores in the U.S., German grocery giant Lidl has become subject to a lawsuit filed by Kroger supermarkets, accusing Lidl of copying their brand of products and demanding financial compensation.   In an amended complaint filed in late June in a…

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September 4, 2017

Congress Starts Regulating the Safety of Personal Care Products After Almost 80 Years   Since 1938, the federal law designed to ensure that personal care products are safe has remained largely unchanged. The number of personal care products used by men, women and children across the country continuously rises and more and more artificial ingredients…

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August 29, 2017

The Case of the  Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat FAA has to reconsider regulating airplane seats   A federal judge in Washington D.C. has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to review seat sizes and legroom on commercial airlines. The ruling comes after an advocacy group, Flyers Rights, petitioned the FAA in 2015 to implement new rules…

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August 23, 2017

What Amazon’s decision to collect sales tax in all states does (and doesn’t) mean for your business    Gone is the need to speculate about where and when Amazon will next collect; come April 1, 2018, the e-commerce giant will tax deliveries into Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, and New Mexico and be registered in 45 states plus…

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August 14, 2017

NC Governor Roy Cooper Signs Drone Bills Into Law North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has kickstarted August 2017 by signing two bills into law tackling a controversial, yet exciting topic: drones. House Bill 128 prohibits the use of drones near prisons, defining “near” as a horizontal distance of 500 feet and a vertical distance of…

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August 8, 2017

Subway’s “Footlong” Sandwiches: Lawyers Denied Bigger Bite Than Plaintiffs A few days ago, the Court of Appeals for the 7th U.S. Circuit threw out a class-action settlement that paid lawyers-but not plaintiffs-in a case filed against Subway for allegedly deceiving customers by selling “Footlong” sandwiches that were, in some cases, shorter than a foot long. The dispute started in…

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Upcoming Seminars and Events USA-­Markteintrittsseminar und Risk Management Meeting

August 4, 2017

Die nächsten Seminare der German American Business Association (GABA) finden am 13. und 14. September in Berlin statt.  BridgehouseLaw fördert auch dieses Event durch Sponsorship und die Stellung eines mit den Themen in den USA vertrauten Referenten. Wann: 13. September 2017: USA­ Markteintritts-­Seminar14. September 2017: Risk Management Meeting Die folgenden Themen werden unter Anderem ausführlich…

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How to Obtain Your Italian Citizenship Iure Sanguinis via Ancestor & Equality in Treatment

August 3, 2017

For many reasons it now seems there is an enhanced interest in obtaining a citizenship other than a US one. While I believe that having a dual citizenship in general is always a good thing, having a US citizenship plus another from one the EU countries is even better. For one, once you are a citizen of a…

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