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Automation will occur over a four-week period across U.S. ports of entry.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the provision of the law barring the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, is unconstitutional.

On June 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2011-54, which provides that U.S. persons having signature authority over, but no financial interest in, foreign financial accounts in 2009 or earlier calendar years for which the reporting deadline was extended by Notice 2009-62 or Notice 2010-23 will now have until November 1, 2011 to file Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs) with respect to those accounts.

Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee signed legislation that significantly revises parts of the city’s Health Care Security Ordinance (Ordinance).

On July 5, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) issued their joint Implementation Proposal for the National Action Plan on Demand Response.

On November 9, President Obama signed Executive Order 13558 requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security to create an interagency "Federal Export Enforcement Coordination Center" (Center).

New law imposes heavy sanctions on individuals and companies offering money and gifts to obtain an advantage in the procurement of public contracts.

The Swiss private offering rules may soon require foreign funds to appoint Swiss distributors in order to sell fund interests to Swiss investors.

On July 12, in California v. Safeway, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, held that a mutual strike assistance agreement among four supermarket chains was subject to challenge under the "rule of reason" standard.

On October 9, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 459, which prohibits employers from willfully misclassifying workers as independent contractors.

A recently enacted Connecticut state law, H.B. 5204, increases the civil penalty imposed upon employers that are found to have engaged in the improper classification of independent contractors.

New ordinance has a number of provisions that may impact employers doing business in the city.

Most employers are aware by now that state and federal governments are cracking down on worker misclassification.

On July 27, in Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. v. Botticella, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the issuance of a preliminary injunction preventing the former Bimbo Bakeries vice president of operations for California, Chris Botticella, from beginning work in a similar position for Hostess Brands, Inc. (Hostess) in the Eastern United States.

On October 21, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) denied rehearing of its ruling in "Arizona Public Service Co. (APS)", 132 FERC ¶ 61,064 (2010), where it announced that the prohibition against buy/sell transactions applies equally to intrastate pipelines engaged in NGPA Section 311 transactions and to Hinshaw pipelines.

Countering an earlier remand from the Seventh Circuit, the Commission explains why a regional transmission organization should use a postage stamp methodology to allocate the costs of its new high-voltage transmission lines.