On Thursday, September 12, 2019, the California legislature adopted a three-year moratorium on state and local law enforcement use of facial recognition through body-worn cameras.

Traditionally, Illinois mortgages include the maturity date and the amount of the underlying debt secured by the mortgage.

On Thursday, June 16, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") released Notice 2011-54 which extended the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (referred to as "FBAR") filing deadline from June 30, 2011 to November 1, 2011 for US persons who have signature authority over, but no financial interest in, a foreign financial account for which the reporting deadline was properly deferred under Notices 2009-62 and 2010-23.

China’s Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") issued on August 25, 2011 the "Rules on the Implementation of the National Security Review Mechanisms" (the "New SR Implementation Rules"《商务部实施外国投资者并购境内企业安全审查制度的规定》).

On May 25, 2011, the SEC held a public hearing on final rules implementing the SEC whistleblower program under the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has announced its 2012 jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds under the Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the "HSR Act").

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced significant revisions to the reporting rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the "HSR" Act), which will take effect on August 18, 2011.

As we move well into the fourth quarter, we enter the time of year in which the pressure to complete healthcare acquisitions (and acquisitions of all kinds) typically ramps up.

The U.S. Supreme Court held today that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s requirement that individuals either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty to the federal government was constitutional.

The Department of Homeland Security published a notice in the Federal Register extending the status of certain F-1 and J-1 nonimmigrant students and their dependents if DHS receives a timely-filed request for a change of status to H-1B no later than July 30, 2004 and the employment start date on the petition is no later than October 1, 2004.

In a case of first impression, Southern District of New York Judge John G. Koeltl found that a defendant innovator drug company's clinical trial resulted in an invalidating public use of the plaintiffs' asserted formulation patents.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"), which takes effect January 1, 2020, prohibits businesses from selling the personal information of California residents ...

Recently, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA") published the ISDA 2012 FATCA Protocol (the "Protocol") to specify which party will bear the cost of the withholding tax that will be imposed under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA") on derivative transactions governed by ISDA Master Agreements.

The IRS has released Revenue Procedure 2011-29 which provides taxpayers with a safe-harbor for deducting a portion of certain success-based fees that are contingent on the closing of certain acquisition and reorganization transactions.

The National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "Board") recently enacted a rule requiring private sector employers (whether unionized or union-free) subject to the National Labor Relations Act.

On June 7, 2012, the SEC approved on an accelerated basis proposed FINRA Rule 5123.1 Rule 5123 will require FINRA member firms that participate in certain private placements of securities to make notice filings (which must include a copy of the offering document used in the private placement, if any) with FINRA, subject to certain exceptions, the effect of which is to require compliance for mainly retail investor marketed offerings.

For multinational corporations operating in the People’s Republic of China ("PRC"), employment considerations play a key role in the design of a robust anti-corruption compliance program.

On May 23, 2011, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced the creation of a new Mortgage Fraud Task Force ("Task Force") to address allegations of widespread fraud impacting the State of California.

President Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law on January 2, 2013.