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Mike King’s Corner: Click in Haste, Repent at Leisure!
Author: Michael R. King
Issue: March 19, 2018
QUESTION: AM I STUCK WITH THIS STUPID DEAL AFTER I CLICKED THE “BUY IT NOW” BUTTON?
ANSWER: YOU SHOULD THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK!
You can buy $400,000 diamond rings on the internet by clicking a button. Heck, you can even buy houses and real estate online without having seen them. That doesn’t mean that it is a good idea, however. Take the case of Julie Rohr, for example.
“This diamond ring doesn’t shine for me anymore . .
Mike King’s Corner: Food Disparagement – The Revenge of the Pink Slime!!
Author: Michael R. King
Issue: February 22, 2018
QUESTION: DID ABC NEWS BITE OFF MORE THAN IT COULD CHEW WHEN IT ATTACKED BEEF PRODUCTS INC.’S LEAN FINELY TEXTURED BEEF?
ANSWER: ABC NEWS BACKED AWAY FROM THE TABLE AND WAVED A WHITE NAPKIN WHEN IT SETTLED THE $5.7 BILLION DOLLAR “PINK SLIME” AGRICULTURAL DISPARAGEMENT CASE!
What’s the beef?
Beef Products, Inc., was the world’s largest producer of lean boneless beef until Disney’s ABC News attacked its product calling it “Pink Slime.” The series of reports by ABC News in March 2012 cost Beef Products 80% of its business.
Gammage & Burnham Newsletter – February 2018
Author: Gammage & Burnham
Issue: February 7, 2018
New Partners, Big Closings and Double Bubble Trouble
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Legal Alert: Employment Law Updates
Author: Richard K. Mahrle
Issue: January 23, 2018
2018 EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES
With a new year come new changes. You may want to pull out your employee handbook or policy manual and consider revising it to meet the new requirements. We can help you with that. Please contact Rick Mahrle for assistance or with any questions on the employment law updates below.
Minimum Wage
Don’t forget that the minimum wage in Arizona is now $10.50 effective January 1, 2018 and will move to $11.00 an hour effective January 1, 2019.
Legal Alert: SAMHSA Issues Final Confidentiality Rule
Author: Susan L. Watchman
Issue: January 25, 2018
SAMHSA Issues Final Confidentiality Rule
On January 3, 2018, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration the issued final rule on “Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records” in January 2017. At the time the final rule was issued, SAMHSA concurrently issued a supplemental notice of proposed
rulemaking with comment period; these changes are the result of that supplemental notice.
Changes include the following:
1. Under § 2.32, “Prohibition on Re-Disclosure,” paragraph (a)(2) permits an abbreviated notice to address the character limitations in standard free-text fields of electronic systems.
