This article first appeared in the newly released book from NERA Economic Consulting,' The Line in the Sand: The Shifting Boundary Between Markets and Regulation in Network Industries.' With a foreword by Alfred E Kahn.

On 1 January 2010, it became possible to file consumer class actions in Italy. An explosion of media coverage, loud proclamations, and filings purportedly claiming billions of Euros in damages saluted the new law.

In the first half of 2011, securities class action lawsuits were filed at the second highest semi-annual rate in the last eight years.

Un programme pilote PPH ("Patent Prosecution Highway") va être mis en place entre l'Office européen des brevets (OEB) et l'Administration nationale chinoise de la propriété intellectuelle (CNIPA), à compter du 1er août 2026.

Thus far CMBS has had a storming year and all current indicators point towards 2018 being a bumper year for the product.

The recent financial crisis was marked by the highest unemployment rates that the US has witnessed in more than 25 years. The civilian unemployment rate increased from 4.7% in November 2007 to a peak of 10% in October 2009.

On 21 July 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank" or "Act"). The Act is a wide-ranging set of financial reforms that make the largest change in financial regulation in decades.

The pace of filings of class actions under federal securities and commodity laws held relatively steady in 2011 as compared to the past three years.

The Irish Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton recently announced plans to restructure the current system of employment law enforcement in Ireland. In essence the Minister’s intention is to streamline the current system which currently comprises various industrial relations and employment rights bodies into an integrated two tier structure.

China’s share of US toy recalls increased dramatically in the last two decades, from 10% of total toy recalls in 1988 to 98% in 2007.

On April 17, 2023, the Supreme Court held oral argument in Slack Techs. LLC v. Pirani-a case regarding standing under Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "'33 Act")...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) filed 27 professional liability suits naming 222 directors and officers of 26 banks that failed during the credit crisis ("D&O" litigation) through March 2012.

The current debate over network neutrality — in all meanings of that phrase — embodies at its core a fundamental contradiction. Some parties ("Netheads") extol the freedom of the Internet: freedom from metering and from such government interference as taxation, commercial regulation or political or moral censorship.

Legislative review and reform is seen as one of the most important steps in developing a hydrogen industry in Australia.

Auction-rate securities (ARS) are long-term variable-rate instruments with their interest rates reset at periodic and frequent auctions. They are often marketed to issuers as an alternative variable-rate financing vehicle and to investors as an alternative to money market funds.

We have prepared this White Paper to clearly state the case for availability payments to demand side resources in electric markets.

Former CFTC Commissioner Sharon Brown-Hruska criticized the removal of the requirement to demonstrate price artificiality in attempted manipulation and disruptive trading practices cases.

Pryor Cashman client Brooke Comegys, an artist whose trademark application for the mark TITTY MONSTER had been opposed by Monster Energy Company at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board...

Ofgem published a short paper on 21 March 2011, entitled "Do energy bills respond faster to rising costs than falling costs?"

Recent statements and actions suggest that the SEC is likely to re-focus its efforts on detecting, pursuing, and preventing accounting fraud.