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Securities & Financial News to Note : Bulletin - February 6, 2012

This bulletin is published every other week on Monday and is disseminated via electronic mail. It features brief summaries of current legal developments in the SEC/corporate, accounting/tax, banking, litigation, as well as other business and financial service areas when appropriate.

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Construction: Alert - January 30, 2012

For almost 50 years, lessors have had the ability to limit their liability for liens that arose from improvements to the leasehold made by a lessee. However, in the most recent legislative session, the Florida Legislature enacted revisions to Florida Statute § 713.10 that provide a potential pitfall for lessors by inserting a provision that may allow a contractor to lien the lessor's interest even where there is a recorded document advising of the limitation of liens.

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A Proliferation Of “Green” Claims Leads The FTC To Consider Updates To Its "Green Guides" - Taking A Closer Look At "Eco-Friendly," "Carbon Neutral" and Other Terms
 

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel

April 1, 2008
 
Amy L. Edwards- Washington

What does a company mean by a statement that its product is “carbon neutral”? Or that its product is manufactured using “environmentally sustainable” practices? Or that it has reduced its “carbon footprint”? These, and a proliferation of similar green marketing claims, have caused the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) to begin the process of updating its environmental marketing guidelines, commonly known as the Green Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 260), at least one year earlier than expected.

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