With the passage on January 22 of continuing appropriations through February 8 (HR 195), the moratorium on the medical device excise tax has been further extended until January 1, 2020...

On November 3, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner announced the expansion of Global Entry to UK citizens.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on September 18, 2017 that it will once again allow premium processing of all H-1B petitions subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 cap.

The UK government intends to ratify the Unitary Patent System and the Unified Patent Court prior to Brexit.

In a move that threatens to undermine some key defenses to liability under the False Claims Act, a bipartisan group of senators voted to advance the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 (SB 2428)...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s revised and restated interim policy release answers questions regarding the use of electronic media to satisfy participant-level fee disclosure requirements.

On February 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a broad new initiative to reduce unnecessary patient exposure to radiation from medical imaging procedures.

After years of debating the need for patent reform, Congress has acted. Today, the Senate passed the House version of the "America Invents Act" (the Act). The bill will now go to the President, who is expected to sign it into law almost immediately.

Issuance of a nationwide, permanent injunction and the election of Donald Trump put an end to DOL's controversial persuader regulations.

This decision affects thousands of F-1 students who currently use the STEM extension.

On December 15, 2017, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, issued its opinion in Southern California Gas Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued on October 18, 2012, FERC proposed to direct NERC to develop reliability standards addressing the risk posed by geomagnetic disturbances.

On September 20, FERC granted Idaho Wind Partners 1, LLC’s (Idaho Wind’s) petition for declaratory order concerning an Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power) tariff provision providing for curtailments of energy from qualifying facilities (QFs).

The FERC recently approved a one-year extension for utilities to prepare to implement the new definition of the "bulk electric system".

The renewable energy industry, now designated as a technology and innovation-related area of special concern to the protection of the US industrial and scientific base, is one of seven sectors...

The Food and Drug Administration has notified Congress that it intends to issue draft guidance to propose a risk-based, phased-in framework for oversight.

Last month, we had an engaging Fast Break session covering the growing importance of risk adjustment in various health insurance programs and novel government theories of liability associated with risk adjustment reporting.

Several retailers have recently been sued in a series of class action lawsuits alleging claims related to the processing of checks as electronic funds transfers.

Both the federal and state governments have promulgated new laws designed to ensure that companies are taking serious steps to protect the privacy of personal data.

The NRC is taking an important step toward an inclusive licensing regime for a new generation of reactors.