Several years ago, the US government embarked on a project to standardize federal agency programs—including the NRC's—for managing unclassified-but-sensitive information.

Most operations are either fee-based or considered "essential" and are therefore expected to proceed normally.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will accept applications to comply with a recent court order, but will work concurrently to publish rules to rescind the program entirely.

On August 17, both the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the US State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued final rules published in the Federal Register, both of which will become effective on November 15, 2016.

The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio held on November 29, 2021, that in actions commenced under 16 USC Section 823b, district courts have the power to decide whether FERC...

Yesterday the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC or the Commission), the bipartisan 10- member panel established by Congress to examine the causes of the financial crisis and the events surrounding the September 2008 financial market meltdown, announced the dates for its first public hearing, to take place at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 13 and Thursday, January 14, 2010 in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building, in Washington, D.C.

Broad awareness has been made about cyberattacks in the form of phishing that typically use email messages to lure victims into divulging sensitive information or opening a link that allows malware to infiltrate their device.

Traditional document review in the age of e-discovery is reaching the point of infeasibility. Setting hordes of attorneys in front of computer screens to review and code millions (sometimes billions) of records is not only prohibitively expensive, but often results in errors and inconsistent quality.

On February 24, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed the appeal of Ian Norris, former CEO of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, paving the way for the first-ever extradition to the United States of a defendant in an antitrust case.

Many of you likely offer "no interest" promotions on store credit cards to your customers.

On October 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the U.S. Oil & Gas Association (the Associations) under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

On November 19, 2012, FERC approved a stipulation and settlement agreement with Gila River Power, LLC, in which Gila River admitted to manipulating the California ISO (CAISO) electric market by arranging nonexistent wheeling transactions to artificially reduce congestion on an interface used as a critical import path to the CAISO market.

In a Guidance Order issued on August 27, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) provided guidance on how the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and the Regional Entities responsible for the enforcement of mandatory Reliability Standards should assess repeated violations by the same or affiliated companies.

Agencies promise close scrutiny of hospital mergers, reverse payment settlements, and REMS abuses.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided in "Kappos v. Hyatt", No. 10-1219, (i) that a patent applicant is free to introduce new evidence in a civil action to obtain a patent pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 145, subject only to the rules applicable in all civil actions, even if the applicant had no justification for failing to present the evidence to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO); and (ii) that if new evidence is presented on a disputed question of fact, the district court must make de novo

On September 14, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) issued its long-awaited decision in Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals v. Commission (Case C-550/07 P), confirming that communications between company employees and in-house lawyers are not privileged in European Union (EU) competition proceedings.

In a recent federal district court case addressing a defendant’s motion to compel, Jannx Medical Systems, Inc. v. The Methodist Hospitals, Inc., 2010 WL 4789275, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul R. Cherry found a plaintiff’s production of electronic documents in PDF format without searchable text did not comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 (Rule 34).

The Department of Labor (DOL) has now released the "final" version of its final regulation on required disclosures by plan service providers under the statutory prohibited transaction exemption provided by Section 408(b)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will tighten screening measures on travelers who use the Visa Waiver Program in response to concerns over Islamist militants who hold U.S. or European passports.

Release of list is an important step toward what likely will be a dramatic change to the Internet; interested parties have until August 12 to submit comments.