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Accountants Want Out from New Identity Theft Rules, Just Like Lawyers

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Dissent

Jordan Weissmann writes:

Fresh off the American Bar Association’s success fending off the application of new anti-identity theft regulations to lawyers, a trade group representing certified public accountants has filed its own lawsuit over the rules.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, represented by Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson partners Daniel Loeb and Bernard Nigro Jr., filed suit yesterday against the Federal Trade Commission at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It claims the so-called “Red Flags Rule,” which would require businesses that extend credit to clients to take extra precautions against possible identity theft, should not have been applied to CPAs.

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