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In April 2005, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) impaneled a special committee, composed of representatives from issuers, brokers, the legal community and institutional and individual investors, to review the NYSE rules regulating the proxy voting process, and, in particular, to review and make recommendations with respect to the NYSE’s proxy rules (Rules 450-460 and Rule 465).

On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit’s ruling requiring a patent licensee to terminate or be in breach of its license in order to seek a declaratory judgment that the licensed patent is invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed by the licensee.

The financial rescue legislation was passed by the Senate on Wednesday, October 1, and the House on October 3, 2008, and was promptly signed by the President the same day.

A federal Magistrate Judge in Texas has issued three rulings in a putative class action alleging that the defendant insurer omitted material information in its disclosures in connection with the sale of variable deferred annuities for use in tax-deferred qualified retirement arrangements such as Individual Retirement Accounts ("IRAs"), 401(k) and 403(b) plans.

The Alabama Supreme Court held that the sale of an Alabama paper mill and timberlands by a company in the business of the manufacture and sale of tissue and paper-related products constituted non-business income allocable to Alabama.

Using the platform of helping small businesses and working Americans, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) proposed three amendments to the Senate Wall Street reform bill that would regulate, and likely reduce, the interchange fees paid by merchants and alter the rules set forth by the bankcard associations.

In the wake of the recent credit crisis, regulators and Congress are accelerating their efforts to address the governmental oversight of U.S. financial markets.

On May 22, Congress overrode President Bush's veto and enacted the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, generally referred to as the Farm Bill.

This legal alert reports on several recent developments involving Sutherland's Class Action practice.

At an open meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") held on September 21, 2005, the SEC voted to: postpone for an additional year the compliance date for filing internal control reports by companies not designated as accelerated filers and proposed for comment amendments to filing deadlines for Forms 10-K and 10-Q and changes in the accelerated filer definition.

On October 25, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") initiated a formal inquiry into whether scheduling and compensation provisions in the tariffs of six independent system operators ("ISOs") and regional transmission organizations ("RTOs") are appropriate for periods when natural gas supplies for essential electric generation facilities may be constrained or gas prices are volatile.

This is a brief summary of some recent welfare plan developments

Attention to unclaimed property issues affecting life insurance companies – including issues relating to unpaid life insurance and annuity benefits – has significantly escalated in recent weeks, due to regulatory actions, media coverage, and public expressions of interest by the plaintiffs’ bar.

Struggling to balance their budgets in these economic times, New York and New Jersey are poised to enact significant unclaimed property changes.

On November 6 and 7, 2005, the Multistate Tax Commission ("MTC") Uniformity Committee met in Washington, DC. The MTC is an organization comprised of twenty-one member states and twenty-six additional participating states.