The Federal Trade Commission adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids' privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information that websites and online services may collect from children under 13.
On Feb. 9, NFHS announced its football rule changes for 2012, and, besides a concussion-protection rule that forces a play who gets his helmet dislodged to sit out the next play, one new rule is 1-2-3l, which for the first time allows member high schools to sell on-field advertising.
FORBES: Your High School's Football Field Just Became Ad Space
For example, the Environmental Protection has thrown out a rule classifying saccharin as a dangerous substance.
At the same time, a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing the price of coal up.
Of the latter issue, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard is rightfully concerned that the SEC will water down this important rule to afford brokers more protection than investors.
At the Deutsche Bank Aviation and Transportation Conference held recently, American Airlines denied seeking bankruptcy liquidation (Chapter 7) but did not rule out the possibility of seeking bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) to reorganize its labor agreements that put it at a marked disadvantage to airline industry peers such as Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, US Airways and United Continental.
FORBES: AMR Could Play Bankruptcy Card To Break Labor Logjam
American forex traders are being forced to trade with no more than 50:1 leverage on the major currencies (20:1 on minors), FIFO (no hedging rule) and without any form of money protection.
Today, half the world's container trade, and much of its oil, pass within 5km of Aden, but northern rule, and the country's fierce protection of its independence, have turned the port into a backwater.
Gaining an extra 270 days to trade on a non-registered foreign bank platform can help many retail forex traders who are not otherwise ready to begin trading under the new CFTC rules, which include 50:1 margin on majors, 20:1 margin on minors, the hedging rule and no FDIC, SPIC or segregation protection.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
FORBES: Two New Reasons to Worry about Air Pollution: Obesity and Diabetes
The COPPA Rule was mandated when Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.
The rule is mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
FORBES: How Badly The Durbin Amendment Might Whack JPMorgan, Bank of America
Here, we apply my tried and true rule-of-thumb for advanced trust structures that are used for estate and asset protection planning: The more impressively a structure is named, the less likely it is to work.
On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-delayed final rule that is intended to implement the Physician Payments Sunshine provisions that were included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The bottom line is that there may be no effective asset protection for assets held in Asset Protection Trusts in those states that have not yet adopted APT legislation, and which still have the Common Law Rule.
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