DRC: D.C. Court Unleashes Conflict by Throwing out Conflict-Minerals Rule

Aug 18, 2015 | Daniel Fisher, Forbes
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A federal appeals court in Washington threw out a regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act requiring public companies to state whether they use “conflict minerals” in their products, setting down strong First Amendment protection for corporate speech that goes further than a larger en banc panel of the same court allowed in another case.