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  <title>Washington State Retail Sales Tax Litigation </title>
    <description><![CDATA[As fall approaches, children return to school and we prepare for the opening holiday season, the Perkins Coie Retail &amp; Consumer Products industry group is proud to introduce its fifth annual "Perkins Coie Wrapping Papers." These updates highlight lega]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:30:32 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>California Continues To March To A Different Drummer--This Time In Below-Cost Pricing </title>
    <description><![CDATA[On August 11, 2010, a California appeals court upheld most of a $21 million predatory pricing judgment against a Bay Area alternative weekly newspaper in Bay Guardian Co. Inc. v. New Times Media L.L.C., No. A122448, 2010 WL 3156631 (Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 11,]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:48 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Three + Three = Proxy Access For 2011: SEC Approves Rule Amendments, Generally Effective For The 2011 Proxy Season, To Allow Shareholders Right To Nominate Directors </title>
    <description><![CDATA[At yesterday's open meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a split Commission approved rule amendments to permit shareholders to nominate directors for corporate boards. The new rules, which will be effective for the 2011 proxy season fo]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:42:45 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>FTC And DOJ Release Final Version Of New Guidelines That Provide Increased Transparency For Horizontal Merger Review </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Recently the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice jointly released their new Horizontal Merger Guidelines (the 2010 guidelines). As we noted in our April 29, 2010 update, the 2010 guidelines are the result ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:34:42 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Business Methods Patents Survive, But Not Bilski's Patent Update</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision[1] in Bilski v. Kappos.

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  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:10:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>EPA Regulates Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Stationary Sources Under The Clean Air Act</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") just published in the Federal Register its final rule to control greenhouse gas emissions ("GHGs") from stationary sources under the two major Clean Air Act ("CAA" or the "Act") permitting programs.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:31:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>IPO Market Comeback: Current State Of The Market And The IPO Process </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Please join us for a presentation to learn about the reviving IPO market, recent IPOs, the process of going public and key steps to prepare for an IPO.
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  <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 11:09:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>When Silence Is Not Consent: Supreme Court Says Sophisticated Business Parties Must Affirmatively Consent To Resolve Disputes Through Classwide Arbitr</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In Stolt-Nielsen, S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp., No. 08-1198 (U.S. Apr. 27, 2010), the U.S. Supreme Court placed a significant roadblock in the path of commercial parties who desire to use arbitration as a vehicle to obtain classwide relief. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:55:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Perkins Coie Legal Firm Franchise April 15 Deadline Approaching: Employers Should Consider Filing Protective FICA Refund Claims Related To Certain 200</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A federal district court in Michigan has held that certain supplemental unemployment compensation benefits ("SUB pay") are not "wages" subject to Federal Insurance Contributions Act ("FICA") taxation. In general, SUB pay includes amounts that are paid...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:26:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Perkins Coie Legal Firm Franchise Cash Grants And Tax Credits Now Available For Certain Biotech/Biopharma R&amp;D Expenses </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Biotech and biopharma companies now have an opportunity to recover up to 50% of their qualified investments in qualifying therapeutic discovery projects as a cash grant or tax credit. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Act) signed...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:42:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Perkins Coie Legal Firm Franchise Anounces Seventh Circuit Upholds Attorney-Client Privilege/Work-Product Doctrine In Internal Investigations </title>
    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled March 30 that attorney notes and memoranda generated during the course of an internal investigation are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Image Is Everything: SEC Brings Second Regulation FD Action In Six Months</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Continuing its focus on Regulation FD, the SEC filed an action in early March against Presstek, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of high-technology digital imaging equipment, and its former CEO, Edward J. Marino.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:11:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Third Circuit Curtails Secured Lenders' Credit Bid Rights In Philadelphia Newspapers Case </title>
    <description><![CDATA[The ability to credit bid is a valuable right for secured lenders. With a credit bid, a secured lender may participate in an auction sale of its collateral by bidding up to the amount of its secured claim merely by giving credit against the secured...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:27:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>New Violation Severity Levels For CIP Standards Become Effective Immediately</title>
    <description><![CDATA[On March 18, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) approved, with modifications, certain Violation Severity Level (VSL) assignments for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards as proposed by...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:20:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>IRS Provides New Safe Harbor For Section 1031 Exchanges Using Qualified Intermediaries </title>
    <description><![CDATA[The IRS recently issued Revenue Procedure 2010-14, which provides long-awaited guidance for taxpayers whose deferred like-kind exchange of relinquished property would be non-taxable under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code but for the failure...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>SGIGs Will Be Treated As Nonshareholder Contributions </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Until recently, the taxability of Smart Grid Investment Grants (SGIGs) was an undecided issue. Effective March 10, 2010, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that these grants will be treated as nonshareholder contributions to the capital...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:51:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>FERC Issues New Civil Penalty Guidelines </title>
    <description><![CDATA[On March 18, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a policy statement and new civil penalty guidelines (Penalty Guidelines) intended to add fairness, consistency and transparency to future civil penalty determinations.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:37:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Maine Law Banning Marketing To Minors Repealed</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A controversial Maine law passed last year banning the use of personal information about minors for marketing purposes has been repealed. The new Maine law that takes it place is much more narrowly tailored to prohibit use of information...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:29:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>David Neff Inducted As A Fellow Into The American College Of Bankruptcy </title>
    <description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that David Neff, a partner in the firm's Bankruptcy &amp; Workouts practice as well as the national co-chair of Perkins Coie's Hotels &amp; Leisure practice, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:25:00 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Colorado Court Upholds Charging A Prepayment Premium</title>
    <description><![CDATA[On January 21, 2010, the Colorado Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding the right of lenders to charge a prepayment premium. Planned Pethood Plus, Inc. v. Keycorp, Inc., 2010 WL 185414 (Colo. App., reported January 21, 2010 as a slip opinion...]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:58:00 PST</pubDate>
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