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CFTC adopts $8 billion threshold for swap dealer de minimis exception

  On November 13, 2018, the CFTC published its Final Rule (Final Rule) setting its de minimis exception threshold to swap dealer registration and regulation requirements at an aggregate gross notional amount (“AGNA”) threshold of $8 billion in swap dealing … Continue reading

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In plagiarism/false attribution case, use was de minimis, fair, and protected by 1A

Israel v. Strassberg, 2018 WL 4290394, No. 2:15-CV-741 (D. Utah. Sept. 7, 2018)Israel entered the Ph.D. Psychology program at the University of Utah, which required a master’s thesis, and Strassberg was her advisor. Israel’s master’s thesis turned on the concept … Continue reading

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CA Supreme Court Revises Opinion on De Minimis Rule

In July, the California Supreme Court announced that various provisions of the Labor Code and the IWC Wage Orders did not incorporate the de minimis doctrine. According to that doctrine, some alleged wrongs are so trivial or hard to measure that … Continue reading

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DSIO Issues Time-Limited, Conditional No-Action Relief for Excluding Certain Loan-Related Swaps from Counting toward the Swap Dealer Registration De Minimis Threshold

  On August 28, 2018, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“DSIO“) announced “conditional, time-limited no-action relief to a banking entity for not counting certain loan-related swaps towards its swap dealer de … Continue reading

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Court Rules on the “De Minimis” Exception to Copyright Infringement

Copyright law allows the owners of copyrighted works to control or prevent the use of those works by others. The Fair Use Doctrine sets limits on copyright owners’ ability to prevent certain unauthorized uses, such as the inclusion of a … Continue reading

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