The deadline for submission of energy benchmarking data for most large buildings in New York City is just around the corner.

Assembly Bills 1103 and 531 passed by the California legislature require owners of nonresidential buildings located in California to disclose energy usage of such buildings in advance of any sale, lease, or financing of an entire building. Recently, the California Energy Commission issued regulations implementing these laws.

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that during the past fiscal year, it recovered over $5.6 billion in criminal and civil fraud cases.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has recently released the long awaited and highly anticipated HITECH Final Rule.

The attorney-client privilege is an old and well-known evidentiary privilege. It fosters candor between attorney and client, protects confidential information from being revealed to others...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) published the results of its first auction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission allowances today, November 19, 2012.

This Stay Current discusses the recent supervisory statement from the federal banking agencies and the CFPB outlining how the Agencies intend to calculate asset sizes for insured depository institutions and credit unions in determining which institutions will be subject to their respective supervision and enforcement authority with respect to Federal consumer financial law under Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) Sections 1025 and 1026.

In its January 27, 2012 decision in "Auriga Capital Corp. et al v. Gatz Properties LLC et al", C.A. 4390- CS (Del. Ch. Jan. 27, 2012), the Delaware Court of Chancery reaffirmed that limited liability company managers and other fiduciaries are charged with the equitable fiduciary duties of care and loyalty, similar to the obligations of officers and directors of a corporation, and that, in order to eliminate or limit those duties, the parties to the limited liability agreement must so agree in th

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("D.C. Circuit" or "Court") in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. Environmental Protection Agency upheld a suite of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") greenhouse gas ("GHG") regulations in a sharp rebuke to industry and state petitioners attempting to overturn these rules.

On March 27, 2012, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed for the first time a New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from new electric utility generating units (EGUs) of greater than 25 megawatts (MW) capacity.

Recently the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services ("OIG") released its "areas most in need of attention" for the 2012 fiscal year.

On October 9, 2011, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 22 into law.

With the statement, "The new consumer agency is here to make sure that markets work for American families, and our bank supervision program is a big part of that," Elizabeth Warren, the Treasury’s Special Advisor on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB"), officially launched the new agency’s bank supervision program.

On December 29, 2011 the California Supreme Court released its decision in "California Revelopment Association et. al. v. Matosantos" and, in what represents the worst case scenario for redevelopment agencies, the Court upheld the legislation abolishing redevelopment agencies and also invalidated the companion bill that gave redevelopment agencies the opportunity to continue in existence by remitting tax increment to the State.

On February 25,2004,the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC ")voted to issue a rule proposal that would require most mutual funds to adopt redemption fees on short-term trades.1 Proposed Rule 22c-2 is intended to serve as one of various measures designed to address abusive market timing activities in fund shares, which have roiled the fund industry in the last several months

On March 21, 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, holding that a compliance order issued under the Clean Water Act.