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A discussion on why Cyprus' large depositors in two largest banks may consider international arbitration and appeals to the European courts to recover funds lost under the bailout plan.

On September 9, Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm rendered the sequel to his landmark Victor Stanley decision.

On February 14, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that certain persons who are obligated to file Form TD F 90-22.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the Healthcare Reform Law), provides for a valuable new 50% tax credit or equivalent cash grant, for certain companies in the life sciences industry that made (or will make) a "qualified investment" with respect to a "qualified therapeutic discovery project" in a taxable year beginning in 2009 or 2010.

In AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, No. 09-893, — U.S. — (Apr. 27, 2011), the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) prohibits states from conditioning the enforceability of consumer arbitration agreements on the availability of classwide dispute resolution procedures.

In a much-anticipated opinion in the Quon matter, on June 17 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to set precedent on broad issues of employee privacy expectations in workplace communications.

The United States Department of State (DOS) has released its April 2007 Visa Bulletin. The Visa Bulletin sets out per-country priority date cut-offs that regulate the flow of Adjustment of Status (AOS) and consular immigrant visa applications.

President Barack Obama's second term will likely bring new employment protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed rule, which will implement Section 6002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, clarifies several definitions, provides further information on reporting requirements, and offers guidance on submitting required information.

In a move intended to improve the efficiency of the Reliability Standard violation enforcement process, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) yesterday approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC's) "Find, Fix & Track" (FFT) enforcement proposal.

In a sign of its increased regulatory muscle, on January 26 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued proposed rules regarding commodity pool operators (CPOs) that not only proposed eliminating the CFTC Rule 4.5 exemption, as petitioned by the National Futures Association (NFA), but also proposed removing the exemptions from CPO registration contained in Rules 4.13(a)(3) and 4.13(a)(4), which are relied on by a substantial portion of the hedge fund industry.

As part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's (Treasury's) efforts to prevent tax evasion, on April 19 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations (the New Rules) requiring the U.S. offices of financial institutions (such as commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, securities brokerages, and insurance companies) to report to the IRS deposit interest payments made to nonresident alien individuals.

Final regulations provide detail on the format, content, and delivery standards group health plan sponsors and insurers must follow when issuing this information.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a number of cases, holding that discharges of stormwater from logging roads are exempt from the Clean Water Act's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting scheme and giving deference to the Environmental Protection Agency's interpretation of its own regulations under Auer v. Robbins.

A recent California decision has held that an insurer may not take advantage of a California mechanism for forcing an attorney’s fees arbitration on its insured if the insurer breached its duty to defend its insured either by failing to pay the full amount owed or by failing to make timely payment of defense costs.

Recently a purported shareholder of certain special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) initiated derivative lawsuits asserting that the SPACs are investment companies...

Employers covered by the NLRA should prepare for the possibility of organizing campaigns with expedited representation election procedures that provide extremely limited pre-election hearings and restrictive appeal options; elections will be held much more quickly than the current median of 38 days after the petition is filed.

The futures industry's self-regulating organization proposes new requirements intended to provide better disclosure.