Here's an interesting companion to yesterday's entry about the EPA making it easier for manufacturers to market alternative-fuel engine conversions.

The Existing Commercial Building Energy Performance Ordinance in San Francisco will require some interesting changes for existing commercial buildings in that city.

An intriguing vignette from the New York Times on the booming bicycle culture in London.

In a cross-agency effort, today the federal government outlined proposed actions relating to Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key component of the healthcare reform legislation (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) enacted in March 2010.

Healthcare providers and other HIPAA covered entities have until Wednesday, February 29, 2012 to submit notice of breaches of unsecured Protected Health Information which affected fewer than 500 individuals during 2011.

Breaking news out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: a three-judge panel has ruled California's controversial Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

Indemnity agreements operate as risk-transfer devices where one party (the indemnitor) promises to assume the liability of another.

Under Section 134 of the Patent Act of 1952, if a patent application is denied by the USPTO, the applicant may file an administrative appeal with the PTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, with appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit under Section141. Another option is the applicant may file a civil action against the PTO Director under Section 145.

Websites including the English version of Wikipedia, Reddit and BoingBoing have gone dark for a period of twenty-four hours today, in protest of anti-piracy bills currently making their way through the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

Article from Waller's Media Mentions

Article from Waller's Media Mentions

Bryan Howard, the Legislative Director of the USGBC, has detailed the proposed GOP budget cuts that could impact green building in commercial real estate.

Article from Waller's Media Mentions.

Article from Waller Law.

As noted in the Waller Lansden bulletin circulated on July 10, 2009, the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), expanded the 242 Hospital Mortgage Insurance Program to permit eligible hospitals to use 100 percent of loan proceeds from the HUD 242 Program to refinance existing debt.

According to reports, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is in discussions with the United States Postal Service to return some of the sponsorship monies earned during his tenure on the team.

This week Senator Elizabeth Warren made a speech on the Senate floor praising the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new slate of mortgage rules.

Article from Waller Law

A discussion on the Affordable Care Act, which represents a massive change to the country’s healthcare system.

The Fourth Circuit recently held that electronic signatures are permissible for copyright transfers, in its July 19, 2013 decision in Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. v. American Home Realty Network Inc.