A federal judge in Texas has found that gate attendants who logged traffic in and out of oil and gas field drilling sites were properly designated as independent contractors.

We continue to take notice of recent antitrust litigation activity in the healthcare industry involving specialty and physician-owned hospitals.

The modern workforce is everywhere, even in your employees' homes. Sometimes those homes are in different states from your headquarters.

The risk of fractures propagating from shale formations to overlying aquifers is very low provided that shale gas extraction takes place at depths where it is typically most feasible.

On December 7, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that "reverse-payment" agreements — whereby brand-name drug companies settle certain patent litigations brought against generic drug rivals — do not violate federal antitrust laws.

On March 26, 2012, in 3M Co. v. Avery Dennison Corp., No. 2011-1339 (Fed. Cir. March 26, 2012), the Federal Circuit clarified the facts sufficient to establish subject matter jurisdiction for declaratory judgment actions under the post-MedImmune "actual case or controversy" standard.

On July 9, 2012, the Federal Circuit issued a split panel decision in CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp., in which the majority attempted to make 35 U.S.C. Section 101’s prohibition on patenting "abstract ideas" more concrete

In this era of widespread government success in the FCA arena, the Williams decision provides some comfort to FCA defendants that have begun to feel that they have little recourse as DOJ seeks to employ overly aggressive or unfounded theories of liability.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has released its Annual Report to Congress for 2009.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 20, 2011, that it intends to develop new wastewater discharge standards for shale gas extraction and coalbed methane extraction.

On October 12, 2011, a federal district judge in Pennsylvania dismissed with prejudice a Clean Air Act (Act) lawsuit against current and former owners and operators of the Homer City power plant, brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Pennsylvania, and New York (collectively, "plaintiffs").

Following the lead of Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader, the Eastern District of Texas recently proposed its own Model Order Regarding E-Discovery in Patent Cases.

In a rare holding, the Federal Circuit in "Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc.", held that objective evidence of nonobviousness was so strong that it rebutted a prima facie case of obviousness.

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars annually on contracts covered by the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act.