On Friday, September 20, 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill regulating hydraulic fracturing operations and other "well stimulation treatments" within the state.

California employers should take note of the recently approved increase in California’s minimum wage, which will raise California’s current rate of $8.00 per hour to $9.00 per hour by July 1, 2014, and to $10.00 per hour by January 1, 2016.

The SEC and various federal banking and housing agencies recently re-proposed the rules for retention of credit risk in securitizations that originally were proposed in 2011.

On September 9, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Martin Gaynor will serve as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics starting October 1.

On September 23, 2013, China’s Ministry of Commerce published a new trial measure jointly issued by it and eight other ministries that aims to collect and publish a list of Chinese and non-Chinese enterprises, organizations and individuals who have committed bad acts or engaged in foul play in connection with outbound investments or other commercial activities.

On April 7, 2006, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rendered a decision in the ongoing litigation challenging two aspects of the Securities and Exchange Commission's governance rule for mutual funds.

On June 21, 2005 Equitas, the entity set up to reinsure and run off the 1992 and earlier non-life liabilities of Lloyds of London syndicates, issued its Report and Accounts for the year ended March 31, 2005. The results are mixed.

On May 18, 2005 the Internal Revenue Service issued a Notice which permits sponsors of flexible spending account plans ("FSA plans") to extend, by up to 2½ months after the end of a plan year, the period during which employees may incur expenses that can be reimbursed from funds in the employees’ flexible spending accounts contributed for the plan year

Senior enforcement officials and the heads of enforcement authorities for the European Union and six nations that have taken the lead in pursuing international cartels and price-fixing conspiracies have committed to greater coordination and increased sanctions, criminal fines, and prison sentences to deter future international cartel and price-fixing efforts.

Many employers provide Internet access to their employees, allowing them to use the company email system for occasional personal use. When employees abuse that privilege and engage in unlawful conduct over the employer’s email system, is the employer liable?

In Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, No. 05-1126, 2007 WL1461066 (May 21, 2007), the United States Supreme Court clarified the standard for motions to dismiss a complaint alleging an agreement or conspiracy in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act.

Federal patent law allows courts to award attorneys’ fees to prevailing parties in "exceptional cases."

The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has recently issued an Order adopting a mandatory data collection in the special access proceeding.

The Kanto Local Finance Bureau is currently issuing inquiry notices to entities that have made a filing to operate under the "Exemption for Special Business Activities Directed at Qualified Institutional Investors" as set forth under Article 63 of Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan.

On September 18, 2013, a divided SEC voted 3-2 to propose rules requiring U.S. public companies to disclose the ratio of the annual total compensation of the CEO to the median annual total compensation of all employees, better known as "pay ratio" disclosure.

On September 11, 2013, California moved significantly closer to adopting a statewide regulatory framework for hydraulic fracturing operations after both the State Assembly and the Senate voted to approve Senate Bill 4.

On September 16 and 17, 2013, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced 22 settled cases and one litigated case involving violations of Rule 105 of Regulation M.

The Securities and Exchange Commission held an open meeting on December 13, 2006, to consider, among other things, certain regulatory changes affecting investments in hedge funds and also affecting mutual fund governance.

Like Tom Cruise in the movie Jerry Maguire, federal, state and municipal taxing authorities are asking IP enabled voice and video services to ‘show them the money.’