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On March 3, 2022, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii sent an open letter to President Biden purporting to request a one-year waiver of the Jones Act to permit the use of foreign-flag vessels to transport crude oil from Alaska...

The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is soliciting public comment on ways to reduce regulatory costs and restrictions on the American maritime industry.

There are reasons to be optimistic about the economies of the world bouncing back from the pandemic in 2021, and at the same time, the major push to restock ....

On March 25, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that it will pay approximately $6.5 million to more than 500,000 consumers who were affected by online fashion retailer...

In fiscal year (FY) 2023, more than half of all U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) child labor investigations resulted in a violation.

Though the primary claims of the Deepwater Horizon matter have been resolved, various classes of claims and associated legal issues remain, adding to the arsenal of law developed as a result of this catastrophe.

The Supreme Court of the United States' 2005 decision in Granholm v. Heald, which required states allowing their own wineries to direct-ship to consumers to also grant such privileges...

The court summarily rejected UPS's defense that its large size and compartmentalized organizational structure made it impossible to establish that it knowingly violated any New York regulations.

The massive short-term disruption of refinery operations and ocean shipping on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Harvey may spur oil industry requests for a waiver of the Jones Act...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) declined to formally adopt a mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction scheme for the shipping industry...

The U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) on May 14, 2020, issued ...

As the US-Israel-Iran conflict in the Middle East enters its third week, further regional spillover and escalation appear more likely than a decisive conclusion in the near term.

The United States Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued an Alert on April 17, 2023, warning U.S. persons about the possible evasion of the price cap imposed by the Department...