You will recall that on March 25, 2020, to address certain challenges created by COVID-19, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the Order that extended the filing periods for certa...
As of March 26, 2020, the filing deadline for Form SD’s is unchanged from the May 31 deadline included in the text of the Conflict Minerals Rule (and in the instructions to the Form SD). Note...
“Hear ye, Hear ye.” The parties to the legal challenge of the SECs conflict minerals rule have agreed that no further court proceedings are necessary and have requested that the US District...
https://www.conflictmineralslaw.com/2017/03/15/conflict-minerals-rule-legal-challenge-done-and-done/
It’s January 2017, and some believe it will be the last year for the SECs conflict minerals rule. Political and Legislative Environment President Trump’s inclination to roll back regulation ...
https://www.conflictmineralslaw.com/2017/01/25/conflict-minerals-in-2017-whats-new/
In a January 21, 2016 release titled Extension of Comment Period for Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers, the Securities and Exchange Commission extended the comment periods fo...
As we discussed in posts on September 3, 2015 and on October 2, 2015, Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required the SEC to issue resource extracti...
April 24, 2015 – May 1, 2015 The summaries provided in this Weekly Recap do not necessarily represent the views of Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP and should not be deemed to be endorsements of t...
https://www.conflictmineralslaw.com/2015/05/04/conflict-minerals-rule-weekly-recap-101-may-4-2015/
January 2, 2015 – January 9, 2015 The summaries provided in this Weekly Recap do not necessarily represent the views of Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP and should not be deemed to be endorsements...
Between May 8 and May 13, briefs on the trade associations’ emergency motion for stay were filed by the SEC, the trade association petitioners, an industry coalition, and Amnesty Internationa...
https://www.conflictmineralslaw.com/2014/05/13/emergency-motion-to-stay-briefs-filed-today/
Today, Monday May 12, the second Form SD and Conflict Minerals Report was filed with the SEC by Affymetrix, Inc. Affymetrix described itself as a “provider of life science products and molec...
https://www.conflictmineralslaw.com/2014/05/12/second-form-sd-and-conflict-minerals-report-filed/