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.

The New York State Department of Financial Services is expected soon to issue "first-in-the-nation" cybersecurity regulations that will apply to life insurance companies, financial institutions...

The IPA was introduced in response to recommendations that David Anderson QC made, in his capacity as the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation...

Two private sector organizations will likely have a greater impact on disclosures by public companies now that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding.

Regulators and others have been increasing their focus on audit committee performance, noting the importance of the committees to the credibility of financial statements.

The decision highlights the US government's focus on effective compliance programs.

The D.C. Circuit concluded that sovereign immunity prevents FERC and NERC from imposing monetary penalties on federal agencies that violate Reliability Standards.

If adopted, a proposed Accounting Standards Update from the FASB relating to accounting for insurance contracts would apply to many companies that are not insurance companies because of a broad proposed definition of an "insurance contract."

The enforcement action highlights the importance of complying with FCC rules with respect to a company's wireless facilities and devices.

Due to the varying methods of state conformity to the Internal Revenue Code, both the prior and current versions of Section 162(m) continue to be a consideration for state taxes.

Nineteen states have asked FERC to modify public utilities' FERC-regulated cost-of-service revenue requirements to reflect the recent reduction in the federal corporate income tax rate.

The new law applies to employers with at least 10 employees in the state at all times during the previous calendar year.

A capacity resource may not take economic outages, but a resource may be considered physically unavailable if it cannot obtain natural gas or transportation.

Electric generators’ increased reliance on natural gas in recent years prompted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the Commission) to issue a set of three orders on March 20, 2014 addressing the interdependency of the gas and electric markets.

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices recently issued a technical assistance letter stating that employers that share Form I-9 or E-Verify data with third parties, may be in violation of both the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The U.S. Department of State, Office of Private Sector Exchange, will begin conducting random J-1 host site visits during the coming weeks.

Retailers that allow website users to generate and post content on their websites are required to reregister their Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) agents with the US Copyright Office...

Commissioner Kieff will work to determine the effects of U.S. intellectual property rights violations on U.S. industry.