A federal appeals court ruled that a landowner is not liable under CERCLA[1] for amounts due to a subcontractor, when the owner had already paid the prime contractor for cleanup work.

Tennessee has enacted a pilot program for public transportation projects using CM/GC project delivery.

Suppose you’re a New Jersey subcontractor on a New Jersey project, where the project owner is based in New York and the prime contractor in Wisconsin.

Common sense suggests that when a lien has been bonded off, the owner of the real estate need no longer be a party to the lien claim lawsuit.

As of recently, the Cook County Use Tax returns are required to be filed for all businesses in Cook County, Illinois, and individuals in Cook County who owe such use tax for purchases made in April 2013 from sellers located outside of Cook County.

Every year, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Tax Equalization Board ("STEB") establishes a common level ratio ("CLR") of assessed value to market value of real estate for each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties for the prior calendar year, which are to be issued by the July 1 effective date.

Revenue Procedure 2014—12 (the "Rev Proc") issued by the Internal Revenue Service creates a safe harbor for investors in the Federal Historic Tax Credit.

These publications (Book 1: Doing Business in Vietnam – Investing in Vietnam - The Basics and Book 2: Tax Guide Vietnam) provide an overview of Vietnamese laws affecting investment, including coverage of topics such as enterprises, land, securities, and contract and taxation.

The project, located off Ca Mau Province, will add about 1.1 billion kWh to Vietnam's electricity network each year.

We are pleased to present the Duane Morris Quarterly Financial Regulatory Enforcement Report—our analysis of key regulatory developments, enforcement actions and criminal cases that shape the complex and constantly evolving financial regulatory environment.

On January 1, 2019, several new laws that were enacted in the wake of the #MeToo Movement will take effect in California.

Duane Morris Takeaways: Complex wage & hour litigation has long been a focus of the plaintiffs' class action bar. The relatively low standard by which plaintiffs can achieve conditional certification.

On May 5, 2008, the FDA published for public comment a draft drug safety five-year plan entitled "Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) IV Drug Safety Five-Year Plan."

Baxter International has recalled thousands of vials of its blood thinner, Heparin, after it was linked to four deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued interim rules to implement the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the United States - Singapore Free Trade Agreement, entered into by the United States and the Republic of Singapore.

The Illinois Franchise Tax is a capital-based tax on corporations transacting business in Illinois. An amnesty is currently under way to give corporations the ability to pay past taxes owed without penalty or interest.

The IRS published Notice 2020-58 on 7-30-20 to provide additional COVID-19 relief to taxpayers in satisfying the "substantial rehabilitation" test for the historic tax credit (HTC).

The DOJ's decision to proceed criminally against such agreements is significant.

On September 17, 2024, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation separately finalized previously proposed policy statements on their review of bank mergers under the Bank Merger Act and its implementing regulations.

The FCA creates liability for persons or entities found to have knowingly submitted false claims to the government or having caused others to do so.