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As we recently discussed, in Stein, et al. v. Buccaneers LP, No. 13-2136 (M.D. Fla.), the Bucs filed a motion to dismiss a putative TCPA class action on the ground that its pre-certification offer of judgment mooted the named plaintiffs’ claims.

A federal district court judge in Maryland gave a clear endorsement of the FCC’s regulation limiting fax broadcasters’ liability under the TCPA.

A district court in the Northern District of Ohio recently denied a plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a TCPA blast fax case.

Two significant tax acts affecting the federal tax treatment of regulated investment companies (RICs) have been signed into law in the past week.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued Release No. 34-66203, which seeks comments on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) Partial Amendment No. 1 (the Amendment) to proposed FINRA Rule 5123 (the Rule), which was released in October 2011.

As you may know, the requirements for obtaining a favorable determination letter for a "qualified" retirement plan are prescribed in detail by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in published guidance.

Employers should be thinking about how the individual mandate and the Federally-facilitated Marketplace will affect their employees.

On March 15, 2011, the Department of State (State) published a Proposed Rule in the Federal Register amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which addresses two very real frustrations faced by exporters of defense articles.

After years of contentious proceedings, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization responsible for coordinating the Internet's naming system, has finally approved the creation of the .xxx top-level domain (TLD).

When the Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with the White House, promulgated its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights in February 2012, one of the more intriguing considerations was that the FTC appeared to be setting up a matrix by which a company’s voluntary decision to adopt that matrix could become the basis for an FTC enforcement action.

Apart from one brief regulation issued several years ago, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has never issued comprehensive guidance for 457(f) plan sponsors.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced an opportunity to request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China.

The SEC issued responses on March 7, 2012 to a series of no-action requests related to shareholder proposals on the right of shareholders to include director nominees in a company’s proxy materials, often referred to as proxy access.

When funds flow in and out of 401(k) and other ERISA plans, they are sometimes held on a short-term basis in general accounts established by a service provider.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Announcement 2011-21 officially designated Form 8955-SSA, which the IRS developed in coordination with the Social Security Administration (SSA), as the replacement for Schedule SSA to Form 5500, effective for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2009.

On April 17, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the Chamber, and together with the ICI, the Organizations) filed suit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) challenging the legality of newly amended CFTC Rule 4.5 (the Rule).

Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance coverage for people who are age 65 or older.

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its first Global Health Strategy.