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In recent years the Canadian courts have been increasingly willing to enforce the judgments of foreign courts and assist in the administration of foreign justice, particularly in permitting the taking of evidence in Canada for use in a foreign proceeding. One commonly used method when evidence is to be obtained from an individual in Canada for a proceeding in a foreign jurisdiction is a letter of request or letters rogatory.

On July 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended its timeline for issuing rules with respect to various Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) provisions applicable to executive compensation.

Although most supply agreements are a benign business reality, when favorable terms negotiated with a supplier foreclose the buyer’s rivals from competing, the antitrust waters can get murky, and buyers, especially those with market power, risk government investigations and private litigation.

D.C. Circuit Order prevents the Board from enforcing rule until the court resolves all of the issues before it; oral arguments scheduled for September 2012.

On February 7, the Division of Audits of the Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a report presenting the areas of noncompliance it identified during an audit of PNM Resources.

On February 7, the Division of Audits of the Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a report presenting the areas of noncompliance it identified during an audit of PNM Resources (PNMR), an energy holding company, and Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), a wholly owned public utility operating company subsidiary of PNMR.

On March 18, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued several orders that portend a significant expansion of FERC control over the development and drafting of mandatory Reliability Standards by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).

On November 29, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a Stipulation and Consent Agreement between the Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) and Holyoke Gas and Electric Department (Holyoke) in which Holyoke stipulated that it failed to report to ISO New England, Inc. (ISO-NE) three planned outages of two of its generating units serving as ISO-NE capacity resources, as required under the ISO-NE tariff.

On December 14, 2011, FERC rejected a merger mitigation proposal (Mitigation Proposal) submitted by Duke Energy Corporation (Duke Energy) and Progress Energy, Inc.

On February 15, 2012, FERC issued a notice announcing that it is establishing a docket to solicit comments exploring the extent to which the natural gas and electricity markets are interdependent and how FERC should oversee coordination between such markets.

On December 23, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has reached settlement agreements with certain states and environmental groups to propose standards and guidelines to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electric utilities and petroleum refineries.

President Obama announced on September 2 that his administration was withdrawing the draft ozone ambient air quality standards that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had prepared and was in the process of issuing as new regulations.

On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., declaring a Vermont law designed to prevent data mining unconstitutional.

In an opinion that was poised to set a single standard governing the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions, no majority is reached.

Deferred compensation arrangements under which payments subject to Section 409A are contingent on a release must be brought into compliance with documentation requirements by December 31.

Last week’s federal district court decision in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15825 (W.D. Mich. Feb. 23, 2010), should generate renewed interest and revive hopes throughout the country for several billion dollars in Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax refund claims that are pending review.

The application process for the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), part of the Affordable Care Act, is starting to unfold.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., et al. v. SEB S.A., No. 10-6 (2011), holding that to prove inducing infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) a plaintiff must prove that the infringer had knowledge that "the induced acts constitute patent infringement."