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Update on the SEC's "Conflict Minerals" Disclosure Rules: D.C. District Court Upholds Court of Appeals Decision

By Allison A. Westfall, F. Mark Reuter on 4.19.2017

On April 3, 2017, the D.C. District Court affirmed the 2014 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, striking down part of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) conflict minerals rules that require publicly-traded companies to disclose whether their products contain certain minerals from certain central African countries.