President Obama accepted his party’s nomination last night, laying out his case for a second term in a 40 minute speech to close the Democratic Convention.

Rep. Paul Ryan formally accepted his party’s nomination for Vice President in a speech before the convention last night.

Thursday, December 12, 2013, promises to be a busy day for physician groups and other stakeholders interested in Congressional action to repeal and replace the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system.

Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) met and subsequently announced that they were working toward a deal.

The monthly jobs report for September, due out last Friday, has been delayed due the shutdown.

Yesterday evening, the President of the United States delivered his yearly State of The Union address to both chambers of the 113th Congress.

Most people know that the Office of Management and Budget plays a leadership role in the development of the President’s budget.

The long ELNY saga continues, at least for the time being, with two recent developments.

The U.S. Court of Appeals handed down an opinion that may have a significant impact on future countervailing duty investigations conducted by the DOC.

The U.S. government recently decided to no longer collect antidumping duties on imports of stainless steel sheet and strip in coils (SSSSC) from Germany, Italy and Mexico.

President Obama issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions against certain persons found responsible for the recent violence in South Sudan.

Today, March 6, 2014, President Obama signed a new Executive Order in response to the threats Ukraine is facing to its peace and stability.

We previously discussed the growing trend of moving for TCPA class certification at the outset of litigation in order to prevent a defendant from trying to moot a named plaintiff’s claims by making a Rule 68 offer of judgment.

Philadelphia partner Kate Deal wrote a brief for the Keep a Breast Foundation which played an important role in the Third Circuit’s en banc decision, upholding the First Amendment rights of junior high schoolers to raise breast cancer awareness by wearing "I ♥ boobies (KEEP A BREAST)" bracelets to school.

Senator Jay Rockefeller has introduced legislation in Congress to authorize research on the impact of violent video games and programming on children.

The FCC's International Bureau has granted the request of SES Americom, Inc. for access to the United States market using the planned AMC-20 geostationary satellite in the Direct Broadcast Service.

As we previously reported, Plaintiff David Emanuel recently took an appeal from the Central District of California’s dismissal of a class action asserting that the Los Angeles Lakers violated the TCPA by sending text messages without the recipients’ consent.

Senate and House negotiators reached an agreement yesterday, December 10, 2013, on top line numbers for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 and FY 2015 spending and partial replacement of the sequester cuts.

The IRS has recently pushed back FATCA effective dates due to further delays in the process of finalizing FATCA materials.

The Indian Tribal Governments practice published its latest edition of the Tribal Business Journal recently, dedicating the edition to federal tax issues.