The <I>Washington Post</I> recently reported that the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) rejected warnings from consultants who said, as early as 1994, that lead contamination was a threat due to the two agencies’ mismanagement of the District’s water supply. The revelation comes following the discovery that of the 6,118 homes tested by WASA in 2003, more than 4,000 came back with lead levels above the federal limit of 15 parts per billi

Payola and plugola have been violations of FCC regulation and frequently considered actionable fraud for at least a generation, but recent events have returned them to the public eye.

On August 5, 2005, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted an order redefining wireline broadband (i.e., high speed) Internet access services, usually referred to as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service, as an "information service."

A recent amendment to Rhode Island’s workers’ compensation law extends personal liability for failure to maintain workers’ compensation insurance to partners (both general and limited) of general and limited partnerships and members and managers of limited liability companies (LLCs).

The Supreme Court’s December 10, 2003 decision to uphold the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) cleared-the-way for the new campaign law’s full implementation for the 2004 federal elections. The Court’s unexpected decision to sustain BCRA’s political advertising provisions in their entirety, only one month before the Iowa Caucuses, left many broadcasters scrambling to understand and comply with the law’s complex – and sometimes inconsistent – requirements.

While much has been written about the impact of The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015, which was signed into law on December 18, 2015, one short yet valuable provision has often been overlooked.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) continues to deny registration to many slogans, rhyming word combinations, double entendres, incongruous word combinations and alliterative expressions on descriptiveness grounds. In many instances, such rejections are unwarranted. However, the USPTO Examining Attorneys will not advise applicants of the ways in which such refusals of registration may be overcome.

On December 3, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act (S. 150). The Act reinstates and extends until November 1, 2007, the moratorium on taxes on Internet access and multiple and discriminatory taxes on e-commerce imposed by the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA).

"Privatization," sometimes referred to as "public-private partnerships," has achieved increasing prominence among public and private universities and colleges seeking to improve their delivery of various services. Privatization has already become relatively common in the operation of school bookstores, dining services and laundry services. More recently, use of privatization has expanded to address one of the greatest challenges currently confronting higher education – providing attractive, "tec