Under a notice of proposed rulemaking to be released today, December 21, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is proposing to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)...

President Peña Nieto announces short-term plans for accelerating the reform’s implementation.

On May 29, we issued a LawFlash reporting that the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) extended the BE-10 reporting deadline for new filers to June 30, 2015.

The US Department of State recently announced that US consular posts in India are experiencing unusually long wait times for nonimmigrant visa (NIV) interview appointments.

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced a new online system for China nationals to use who hold a 10-year B1/B2, B1, or B2 (visitor) visa to facilitate international travel to the United States.

The new EB-3 China cut-off date for AOS applications that was set to take effect June 1 was implemented early as of May 9.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (the Tribe) in New York viewed these decisions as a business opportunity. Assuming its tribal government sovereign immunity would bar exposure to any IPR proceeding...

A cybersecurity breach involving theft of a company’s customer data could mean that the company has a weakness.

As anyone in the electric vehicle sector is aware, network charging infrastructure is a threshold issue to be addressed in order to get more electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads in US markets.

On August 16, FERC and NERC issued a joint report on the outages and curtailments that occurred in the southwest during the extraordinary cold snap in early February 2011.

On August 29, the Commission approved a $350,000 settlement between the Grand River Dam Authority, NERC, and FERC to settle allegations of Reliability Standard violations by the Grand River Dam Authority, an Oklahoma state agency.

In a move that will save the industry about $400,000 each year, on January 19, 2012, FERC eliminated the semiannual storage reporting requirements for (i) interstate pipelines transacting under the Natural Gas Act.

At today's open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed to approve new Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards ...

On July 19, 2011, following a lengthy consideration of the smart grid interoperability standards proposed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), FERC terminated its consideration of the five "families" of proposed interoperability standards, concluding that there was a lack of consensus regarding the standards.

The uncertainty in several Medicare and Medicaid funding issues could cause confusion for patients and providers, and potentially hinder access to care.

Individuals in the United States applying for visas to India should expect processing delays in the coming weeks and months as India transitions to a new visa services vendor.

L visas may be issued for a maximum period of 60 months; new interview waiver program and new visa processing procedures at the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Japan.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a redesigned Form I-766, Employment Authorization Document, commonly referred to as an "EAD card."

The strict Massachusetts data privacy and security regulations (201 C.M.R. 17) that took effect March 1, 2010 are designed to protect personal information of Massachusetts residents (including the combination of an individual’s name with financial, bank or credit card account, driver’s license, or social security numbers).

Long-awaited notice allows individual and corporate donations made directly to a single-member LLC to be treated as donations made to the parent 501(c)(3) organization.