In QUALCOMM, Incorporated, 2017 BL 441240 (Dec. 8, 2017), QUALCOMM, Inc. (“QUALCOMM”) asked the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to permit the omission of a proposal submitted by James McRitchie (“Shareholder”) to remove each voting requirement in QUALCOMM’s charter and bylaws that called for a greater than simple majority vote. The SEC issued the requested no action letter allowing for the exclusion of the proposal from QUALCOMM’s proxy statement under Rule 14a-8(i)(10).

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