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Leaving the air to run for office - what to do with the broadcaster who becomes a candidate

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 4 2010

As we enter the 2010 election season, questions are beginning to arise about broadcast station on-air employees who decide to run for political office, and what a station needs to do about such employees to avoid issues under the FCC political broadcasting rules

Managing risks related to online activity in municipal elections Part II

  • Harper Grey LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 16 2011

Consider the following scenarios

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

All eyes turn to deficit reduction committee as spectrum debate resurfaces

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 30 2011

Although it is still possible that a stand-alone spectrum bill could advance in the 112th Congress, the expectation is that the debate over spectrum will be wrapped up into the larger debate on deficit reduction

Administrative & court decisions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 7 2011

The NLRB held that a successor employer that acquires the assets of a unionized hospital must recognize and bargain with a union that initially demanded bargaining with an inappropriate employee unit, but later “perfected” the unit by dropping several job categories

Enjoining Nick Saban: non-compete agreements and college football coaches

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 9 2012

In the realm of examining whether non-compete provisions should be used in particular professions, this article by Clay Travis asks an interesting question: why don’t college football coaches have non-competes?

The Feds weigh in on the social media password ban controversy for employers and schools

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
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  • USA
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  • April 30 2012

On Friday, Rep. Eliot Engel and Rep. Jan Schakowsky introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to stop employers from requiring applicants to divulge social media passwords

K 12 education alerts: June 2011 - June 2012

  • Franczek Radelet PC
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2012

On Monday, June 13, 2011, Governor Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 7, the sweeping education reform bill that is the product of months of negotiations between a broad group of stakeholders that included representatives from both management and labor

New California legislation to protect social media accounts of employees and students

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 17 2012

In response to ‘quickly evolving technologies’, California has passed legislation preventing employers and public and private post-secondary educational institutions from requiring or requesting an employee or a student, prospective student or student group to disclose ‘personal social media information’, including user names and passwords, or from accessing personal social media information in the presence of the employer or the institution’s employee or representative, as the case may be

Ombudsmen decisions - The Hobbit and Ministers' personal interests

  • Russell McVeagh
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  • New Zealand
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  • February 8 2013

In the past week the Ombudsmen released two opinions concerning high-profile requests under the Official Information Act. The two situations differ