On June 16, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) issued a Notice of Inquiry in Docket Nos. RM11-24-000 and AD10-13-000 seeking comments on two separate but related issues.

The D.C. Circuit clarifies that FERC may prohibit manipulative trading only in markets outside of the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction over commodity futures contracts.

On March 15, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to revise the Electric Quarterly Report (EQR) Data Dictionary so parties can more accurately report simultaneous exchanges.

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.

FERC concludes that MISO’s proposed tariff revisions do not provide a new service to GFA customers and that MISO failed to meet the public interest standard necessary to modify the services under GFAs.

At the NERC Board of Trustees meeting this week in Vancouver, Canada, NERC outlined a new initiative intended to reduce the administrative burden on Registered Entities associated with the processing of Reliability Standard violations.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to begin accepting applications this summer for waivers of environmental compliance.

Protocol provides clues regarding areas of focus for ongoing HIPAA audits assessing compliance with the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has stopped accepting H-1B petitions subject to the 2014 fiscal year H-1B cap or the advanced degree exemption.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the allotment of 20,000 H-1B petition approvals available to foreign nationals holding a U.S. master’s or higher degree has been exhausted for fiscal year 2011.

Now is the time for employers to assess their FY 2013 H-1B needs and to get petitions ready.

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.

Program to include H-1B and individual L-1 visas; eligible visa holders no longer required to have in-person interviews with U.S. consular officers.

For cases filed before enactment of the America Invents Act, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has clarified that unrelated defendants may be joined together in a single patent case only if claims are based on the same product or process.

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.

On October 20, the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued Advisory Opinion 2011-09A (AO 2011-09A), in which it concludes that relief under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 80-26 (PTE 80-26) is not available for an indemnification arrangement involving a futures trading agreement for an individual retirement account (an IRA), raising the question as to whether such indemnification arrangements would be non-exempt prohibited transactions.

On December 7, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued new temporary regulations providing sourcing rules for "fails charges" that may arise in the delivery-versus-payment market for Treasury securities.

According to Department of Labor (DOL) officials, the agency will soon publish a "final" final regulation on required disclosures by plan service providers under the statutory prohibited transaction exemption provided by Section 408(b)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).