The strict Massachusetts data privacy and security regulations (201 C.M.R. 17) that took effect March 1, 2010 are designed to protect personal information of Massachusetts residents (including the combination of an individual’s name with financial, bank or credit card account, driver’s license, or social security numbers).

Long-awaited notice allows individual and corporate donations made directly to a single-member LLC to be treated as donations made to the parent 501(c)(3) organization.

No-one can have failed to see the recent headlines regarding the discovery of horsemeat in various meat products across a raft of products stocked by various supermarkets.

The Bureau of Consular Affairs is currently issuing documents at a reduced capacity; it is expected to take weeks to resume full system functionality.

It may be difficult to reconcile the idea that an employer may still be liable for human rights-related damages even where an adjudicator...

Leading global fiduciary and administration provider, Estera, has acquired Guernsey-based Morgan Sharpe Administration Limited.

On September 17, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published in the Federal Register a request for comments on National Futures Association’s (NFA’s) petition for rulemaking (the Petition), to revise the exclusions from the definition of a commodity pool operator (CPO) under CFTC Rule 4.5.

This past January 12, Taiwan held its parliamentary elections. In said elections, President Chen Shui Bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which advocates the independence of Taiwan and its participation as an independent State in the United Nations, suffered a catastrophic electoral defeat

Copy of the passport's data page and registration stamp.

In the year 2000, the United Nations General Assembly designated April 26 as World Intellectual Property Day.

Angelo Caradonna and Alessio Vella entered into a business venture and together opened a joint bank account taking possession of shares of three properties.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a settlement in the previously filed enforcement proceeding against eight former interested and independent directors of five registered funds advised by Morgan Asset Management, Inc.

On May 16, 2014, the Québec Court of Appeal affirmed that the conduct of parties to an employment contract can supersede a series of fixed-term contracts.

The expected effect of the regulation would be to stop the planned expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.

On May 2, 2013, FERC issued an order conditionally accepting in part, and rejecting in part, tariff revisions filed by PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) Office of Enforcement (OE) issued its 2018 Report on Enforcement on November 15. The report provides a review of OE's...

Exception to the law allows certain discounts or rebates on prescription drugs.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the H-1B cap was reached and that all capsubject H-1B petitions received after November 22, 2011 will be rejected.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced the discontinuation of its recently implemented practice of sending original Form I-797 Notices of Approval directly to petitioning employers and individual applicants, with courtesy copies of these notices sent to attorneys or authorized representatives.

On September 23, the U.S. International Trade Commission announced that Sandra Lord will join the ITC as an Administrative Law Judge, replacing Judge Robert K. Rogers, who retired from the ITC in June 2013.