Regulation S-K 
Item 103
Legal Proceedings
Describe briefly any material pending legal proceedings, other than
ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, to which the registrant
or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their property
is the subject. Include the name of the court or agency in which the proceedings
are pending, the date instituted, the principal parties thereto, a description
of the factual basis alleged to underlie the proceeding and the relief
sought. Include similar information as to any such proceedings known to
be contemplated by governmental authorities.
Instructions
to Item 103
1. If
the business ordinarily results in actions for negligence or other claims,
no such action or claim need be described unless it departs from the normal
kind of such actions.
2. No
information need be given with respect to any proceeding that involves
primarily a claim for damages if the amount involved, exclusive of interest
and costs, does not exceed 10 percent of the current assets of the registrant
and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. However, if any proceeding
presents in large degree the same legal and factual issues as other proceedings
pending or known to be contemplated, the amount involved in such other
proceedings shall be included in computing such percentage.
3. Notwithstanding
Instructions 1 and 2, any material bankruptcy, receivership, or similar
proceeding with respect to the registrant or any of its significant subsidiaries
shall be described.
4. Any
material proceedings to which any director, officer or affiliate of the
registrant, any owner of record or beneficially of more than five percent
of any class of voting securities of the registrant, or any associate
of any such director, officer, affiliate of the registrant, or security
holder is a party adverse to the registrant or any of its subsidiaries
or has a material interest adverse to the registrant or any of its subsidiaries
also shall be described.
5.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, an administrative or judicial proceeding (including, for
purposes of A and B of this Instruction, proceedings which present in
large degree the same issues) arising under any Federal, State or local
provisions that have been enacted or adopted regulating the discharge
of materials into the environment or primary for the purpose of protecting
the environment shall not be deemed "ordinary routine litigation
incidental to the business" and shall be described if:
A. Such
proceeding is material to the business or financial condition of the registrant;
B. Such
proceeding involves primarily a claim for damages, or involves potential
monetary sanctions, capital expenditures, deferred charges or charges
to income and the amount involved, exclusive of interest and costs, exceeds
10 percent of the current assets of the registrant and its subsidiaries
on a consolidated basis; or
C. A
governmental authority is a party to such proceeding and such proceeding
involves potential monetary sanctions, unless the registrant reasonably
believes that such proceeding will result in no monetary sanctions, or
in monetary sanctions, exclusive of interest and costs, of less than $100,000;
provided, however, that such proceedings which are similar in nature may
be grouped and described generically.
Regulatory History |
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47 FR 11401, Mar. 16, 1982 |
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