Comments on: Dodd-Frank and conflict minerals: the law’s wide reach https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/dodd-frank-and-conflict-minerals-the-laws-wide-reach/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:05:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: AMcA https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/dodd-frank-and-conflict-minerals-the-laws-wide-reach/comment-page-1/#comment-140380 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:05:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26604#comment-140380 Strikes me that there’s no rational basis for making a company disclose a trace amount of something they don’t add as such to their products, because they’re not buying it as such. And if they’re not buying it as such, there’s no nexus with preventing trafficking in such materials.

But that’s just an off the cuff theory of the sort that turns into nightmare once the litigation begins . . . .

]]> By: GregS https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/dodd-frank-and-conflict-minerals-the-laws-wide-reach/comment-page-1/#comment-140304 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:39:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26604#comment-140304 Does this law apply to goods sold in the United States, or only to goods manufactured in the United States? Because if it’s the latter, perhaps the affected manufacturers should consider moving their manufacturing operations abroad. I hear China is a good place to relocate to.

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