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.

CFTC and SEC solicit comments on proposed rules governing the commercial end-user exemption to the clearing requirements of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

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.

Under new requirements effective April 22, government contractors must now submit to the government information regarding past criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings when bidding for a contract or grant.

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has released its September 2010 Visa Bulletin.

On October 1, a New York appellate court held in RLI Ins. Co. v. Smiedala that an insured who prevailed in a declaratory relief coverage action brought by its excess insurer could recover its attorney’s fees in the litigation, even though the excess insurer’s coverage obligations with respect to underlying litigation had not yet been triggered.

On January 5, in Clariant Corp. v. Harford Mut. Ins. Co., 2011 WL 18351, the Supreme Court of Delaware ruled that even when a settlement and release of a party’s duty to defend and/or indemnify is entirely unambiguous, courts may reform the settlement and release to comport with the parties’ true contractual intent.

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

Court finds that using technology to undertake more efficient document review is reasonable.

On November 12, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service) released an Action on Decision (AOD), AOD 2010-05, stating that it disagrees with the U.S. Tax Court’s reasoning and decision in Veritas Software Corp. v. Commissioner, 113 T.C. No. 14 (2009).

In an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) published in the Federal Register on August 10, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) solicits public comments on a proposed requirement that contractors submit extensive compensation data to the agency through a webbased collection tool.

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."

Decision by court of appeals affirms that settlements that do not expand the exclusionary scope of a patent are not subject to antitrust challenge.

On September 30, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s or the Board’s) Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon outlined a new initiative to expedite the processing of Section 10(j) requests in cases involving alleged unlawful discharges during union organizing campaigns.

On May 20, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final regulations describing how federal contractors and subcontractors will provide notice of employee rights under the federal labor laws.

Modified Field Assistance Bulletin eliminates rule calling for fund disclosures of investments available through brokerage windows and other similar arrangements.

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.

Litigation for the technology industry has long been mistakenly thought of as synonymous with intellectual property litigation.