Statutes Relating to Telephone Companies

Full Disclosure: The SEC's Requirements Relating to Bank Holding Companies

Federal secur i t ies laws requ i re that investors in a pub l i c l y t r aded c o m p a n y be fu rn ished w i t h comp le te and t ime l y i n f o rma t i on a b o u t t he f i rm a n d its securi t ies. This ful l d isc losure c o n c e p t is cr i t ical to t he e f f i c iency of our capi ta l markets and t he p r o t e c t i o n of investors. Du r i ng t he 50 years s ince t he secur i t...

Cost Proxy Models in Rural Telephone Companies

Introduction The Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket 96-45 (“Joint Board”) published its Recommended Decision on November 8, 1996. Among other topics considered in that document, the Joint Board discussed the use of cost proxy models to determine the cost of network construction and by extension the cost of unbundled network elements. The Joint Board specified that the “te...

Court responses to Tarasoff statutes.

Twenty-three states have enacted Tarasoff statutes applicable to psychiatrists. Since the first such statute was enacted in California in 1985, a significant number of courts in states with this and similar statutes have reviewed Tarasoff-type claims. This article reviews courts' analyses in 76 such cases. There were five basic categories identified, including cases that (I) did not reference t...

The Effect of Qualification Statutes on Unlicensed Foreign Corporate Commercial Finance Companies: The Doing Business Concept

An equality approach to wrongful birth statutes.