The Delaware Supreme Court held that, under Delaware law, fee-shifting provisions in non-stock corporations’ bylaws can be valid and enforceable.

After the government's petition for rehearing en banc was denied by the Sixth Circuit on January 4, 2013, the government filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court.

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control issued its Initial Proposed Priority Products list under the Safer Consumer Products Program.

On December 11, 2012, Michigan became the 24th state to adopt "right-to-work" laws.

In three recently issued reports, the Department of Energy made public significant new developments in U.S. renewable energy generation.

Despite or, perhaps, because of the austerity budget in Italy, Turin-based Fiat (Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati and Chrysler) has seen big growth in natural gas and propane powered cars. Sales of these passenger vehicles grew 90 percent in August.

A California state agency has awarded Tesla Motors $10MM in matching funds to support manufacture of the Tesla Model X cross-over SUV.

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that it has launched a "Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative."

In the weeks since the election, pundits have speculated that a significant push to regulate the advance of climate change will be initiated by President Obama in his second term.

In providing issuers with this new opportunity for raising funds, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a significant gatekeeping requirement: a new affirmative obligation that the issuer take "reasonable steps" to verify that participants in private placements are "accredited investors" under the Securities Act of 1933.

As explained in our January 24, 2014 Client Alert, "‘Heightened Standards’ for Large Banks: OCC Proposed Guidelines," the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a proposal seeking comment on guidelines establishing minimum standards of governance, risk management and board independence for insured national banks, Federal savings associations, and Federal branches with assets of at least $50 billion (Guidelines).

The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that the business judgment standard of review should apply to a going-private transaction involving safeguards to protect minority stockholders.

A Florida federal district court denies a cable contracting company’s motion to decertify a conditionally certified class of cable technicians who brought a class action lawsuit against Broadband Interactive alleging that they were misclassified as independent contractors and denied minimum wage and overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

President Obama took two executive actions "to help combat pay discrimination and strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws."

In its recently published 13th survey of trends in the global power sector, PwC reported a strong consensus that the spread of distributed energy generation, including solar and other renewables, is transforming the business model for the power sector.

Recently, in Hobart (Tasmania), at its annual meeting, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) failed in its third attempt to adopt proposals that would have established the world’s largest marine protected area (MPA) in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.

A recently published PwC review identifies a number of business factors that are heightening attention to sustainability in the real estate sector.

The debt markets have outperformed themselves during 2013, harkening back to the boom years of 2005 through 2007.

On April 8, Microsoft officially ended all support and ceased providing updates for their Windows XP operating system.

When Congress early this year enacted the new estate tax provisions making the $5 million inflation adjusted federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions "permanent," it also made the concept of portability permanent.