<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Legal Subteam and Counsel:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I am forwarding this email and the two following in this thread to the Legal Subteam for consideration as an assignment/instruction to counsel</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg Shatan</div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pedro.ivo@itamaraty.gov.br">pedro.ivo@itamaraty.gov.br</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:41 AM<br>Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Accountability questions to law firms<br>To: "<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear CCWG-colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please find below a group of questions to be posed to the law firms assisting the CCWG-Accountability.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Are there any restrictions in California law or in applicable federal US-law with respect to government officials (US or foreign) becoming statutory members (or designators) of a non-profit organization? Would
all liabilities applied to US or foreign citizens in a membership (or designator) structure equally apply to a government official which has legal immunity and privileges in the United States?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">What are the specific legal requirements for a third-party which may have approval or veto rights over board decisions and what are its liabilities?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">A community veto (be it exercised in a membership or a designator structure) over a bylaw change could be potentially reverted through a court decision in California? Same question applies to a decision made
by an Independent Appeals Panel mechanism.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">The fact that the "board bears ultimate responsibility for corporate decisions and must provide oversight of the exercise of those powers it has delegated" (Sidley Austin LLP, Initial Discussion Draft 1, p.
3) implies that the board may eventually revert a community veto (member or designator structure) over its own decision or over the budget it has originally approved?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Is the Californian Attorney General able to intervene in ICANN's operations upon the complaint of a government (US or other)? How does this situation relate to norms of international private law internalized
by the United States?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Thanks in advance,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Secretário Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Divisão da Sociedade da Informação (DI)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ministério das Relações Exteriores - Brasil<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">T: <a href="tel:%2B%2055%2061%202030-6609" value="+556120306609" target="_blank">+ 55 61 2030-6609</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Secretary Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Division of Information Society (DI)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Ministry of External Relations - Brazil<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">T: <a href="tel:%2B%2055%2061%202030-6609" value="+556120306609" target="_blank">+ 55 61 2030-6609</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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