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K&L Gates
This will be a proposed change to the current procedures to process applications to export LNG to non-FTA countries.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Some clarification and a bit more flexibility was forthcoming late last week from the Federal Trade Commission to help ease compliance with the "new" COPPA.
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
In a precedential decision that underscores the importance of maintaining a formal business structure when securing trademark rights, the Board found the mark FAIRWAY FOX void ab initio after determining that the applicant had no more than a joint interest in the mark.
Foley & Lardner
"Help, there is an angry man waving a gun around in the lobby!" These are the kinds of words no employer wants to hear and can make all other concerns seem trivial in comparison.
Day Pitney LLP
In what promises to be the first in a series of rulings
concerning the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) over liquefied and compressed natural gas (LNG
and CNG) projects and activities ..
Foley & Lardner
The USPTO is requesting input on the "optimal" targets for its patent application pendency metrics. The USPTO’s current targets are 10 months to a first Office Action and 20 months to grant or abandonment.
NERA Economic Consulting
Consumer class actions -- cases where plaintiffs purchased a product or service from a defendant and allege some kind of fraud, product defect, or other information failure -- have become ubiquitous.
BakerHostetler
Natural gas production in Ohio nearly doubled last year largely because of a surge in hydraulic fracturing operations in the state.
McDermott Will & Emery
On June 18, 2014, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance published a revised version of its Nonresident Audit Guidelines.
Fox Rothschild LLP
Murray Shusterman began practicing law in 1936 and he hasn’t stopped working since. Shusterman, now 101 years old, still travels to the Philadelphia office of Fox Rothschild LLP each day, where he works on corporate and real estate matters.
Littler Mendelson
The E.O. is effective immediately, and the DOL is directed to prepare implementing regulations within 90 days.
Ropes & Gray LLP
The vexed question of FERC jurisdiction over alleged manipulation of the natural gas futures markets recently bubbled back to the surface.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
On July 3, 2014, the California Supreme Court decided the much watched case Beacon Residential Community Assoc. v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP.
Thompson Coburn LLP
The U.S. Supreme Court may have quietly provided significant ammunition to those trying to curb abusive patent troll activity.
Ford & Harrison LLP
The EEOC has issued new guidance on the reach of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and taken a very expansive view of the protections to be afforded pregnant employees.
Fox Rothschild LLP
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pushing for better cooperation with the financial industry and federal lawmakers to combat emerging insider-trading threats.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Entities who invest in or do business through an out-of-state LLC may be surprised to find out that they have filing obligations and tax liabilities in California.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Led by Judge Richard Posner, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently refused what Posner called a "quixotic" attempt to extend copyright law.
Arent Fox LLP
On July 14, 2014, the DC Council unanimously approved the Fair Criminal Record Screening Act (the Act) that bars private employers from asking about an applicant’s criminal conviction record until the employer has extended a conditional job offer.
Fox Rothschild LLP
As recently reported by the tax press, a Senate panel recommended on July 21 that the IRS step up its enforcement of the structured financial product referred to as "basket options" and related strategies, penalize banks that facilitate such tax avoidance, and revamp the rules governing large partnership audits.
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McDermott Will & Emery
2014 presents particular challenges with respect to the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts.
Duane Morris LLP
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would make certain H-4 dependent spouses eligible to apply for employment authorization.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
On October 1, 2013, the U.S. Department of State will begin accepting requests to register for the 2015 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2015), also known as the Green Card Lottery.
Blank Rome LLP
For businesses with California operations, the coming year will bring several important changes to California employment law.
Fisher & Phillips LLP
On January 1, 2014, the Arizona minimum wage will increase from $7.80 to $7.90.
Holland & Knight
The IRS announced substantial changes to both the Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures for Non-Resident, Non-Filer Taxpayers and the OVDP.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Plaintiffs frequently sue businesses in class actions for violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U.S.C. § 227 (the "TCPA").
Grant Thornton LLP
The IRS issued the 2014 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.
Proskauer Rose LLP
On January 21, 2014, Governor Chris Christie signed S2995 to
amend New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by
expanding protections against discrimination for employees affected
by pregnancy
Proskauer Rose LLP
On October 2, 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed Int. No. 974-2012A to amend the New York City Human Rights Law by expanding protections against discrimination for pregnant employees.
