The US National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are the centerpiece of the US Clean Air Act (CAA) and establish allowable concentration levels for six "criteria air pollutants"

If there’s anything we’ve learned from this Great Recession, it’s that better loans make better asset-backed securities.

On Thursday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act, the GOP's bill designed to repeal the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"). The bill narrowly passed by a vote...

A discussion on the changes brought by the America Invents Act to U.S. patent law.

In re Gorelik, No. 2016-1432 (Fed. Cir. June 14, 2016) (non-precedential). On appeal from P.T.A.B. Before Prost, Bryson, and Stoll, per curiam.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently approved the .XXX top-level domain ("TLD") for use by the adult entertainment industry.

The California Department of Justice will host six public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") to provide the general public an opportunity to participate in the CCPA rulemaking process.

As reported in BNA Privacy Law Watch, a California legislative proposal would allocate additional resources to the California Attorney General's office to facilitate the development of regulations ...

On September 25, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority published the first results of its factual assessment of the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation in France and in Europe.

On February 27, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission announced a record $5.7 million civil penalty against popular video creation and sharing app Music.ly

On August 3, 2018, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 220 (the "Bill"), which provides covered entities with an affirmative defense to tort claims ...

On February 27, 2019, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing titled "Privacy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States."

The Internal Revenue Service has ended its year-long moratorium on issuing MLP qualifying income rulings under Section 7704 of the tax code.

On August 28, 2018, as reported in Business Insurance, Lloyd's of London underwriters have agreed to insure digital currency storage company, Kingdom Trust Co

On November 1, 2018, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") announced its approval of the first virtual currency license for an operator of Bitcoin teller machines ("BTM").

New cybersecurity rules for insurance companies licensed in South Carolina are set to take effect in part on January 1, 2019

On September 1, 2011, Andrews Kurth issued an alert advising of two recent filings by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board ("MSRB") with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in which the MSRB had proposed important new standards of conduct for municipal advisors under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

In an article appearing in Electric Light & Power, Hunton insurance recovery lawyers, Lawrence Bracken, Sergio Oehninger and Alexander Russo discuss the insurability of losses

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reported receiving enough petitions during the first five business days of April 2019 to meet the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) governs petitions for interlocutory appeals of orders that grant or deny class certification and requires that a petition for permission to appeal must be filed