We are pleased to share Hogan Lovells' summary of H.R.4173, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("the Act"). View the report. The Act, which was passed by Congress last week, is scheduled to be signed by President Obama on July 21.

Aerospace, defense, and government services (ADG) companies are not new to game-changing technology innovations.

On 14 September 2010 California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) proposed a regulation that would allow the Department to identify and prioritize chemicals of concern and regulate consumer products containing those chemicals.

Many companies are only beginning to grapple with the United States' export control implications of "cloud computing," a method of using the Internet to access third-party information technology resources for using and developing software applications and for obtaining storage, processing, and bandwidth resources.

On 15 February 2011, Hogan Lovells Partner Stephen Propst issued an independent legal analysis regarding the authority of the President to modify the U.S.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued two Dear Colleague Letters (DCL) addressing aspects of the federal student financial aid program integrity regulations published on October 29, 2010, and an electronic announcement regarding trial three-year cohort default rates (CDRs).

On September 17, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a notice describing a new, voluntary parallel review process under consideration by these agencies for medical products.

In a development that should be of great interest to all lawyers and companies – foreign and domestic – involved in litigation in the United States, a recent Ninth Circuit decision confirmed that the risks associated with bringing foreign-originating evidence into the U.S. – even for what is believed to be a limited purpose – are very real and could result in that evidence being subpoenaed for use in a criminal investigation.

Florida's Third District Court of Appeal has held that Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) properly exercised its discretion in denying a home health agency.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau requested public input on a recent report on Cybersecurity Risk Management and Best Practices.

On 9 December 2010 President Obama announced the publication of proposed rules, requests for comments, and other developments to advance the Administration's Export Control Reform Initiative.

The New York Department of Labor issued a new wage order that raises minimum wages for tipped hospitality industry workers and clarifies that hospitality industry employers may mandate tip pooling.

Today the Supreme Court ruled that the Bayh-Dole Act, 35 U.S.C. §§ 200-212, does not automatically vest a university with title to a faculty invention made in the course of federally-funded research. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Case No. 09-1159 (June 6, 2011).

On 7 April 2011 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) unanimously adopted an Order that significantly revamps its regulations governing the rates, terms, and conditions on which wireless and wireline communications providers attach their facilities to utility poles.

The scope and use of the federal healthcare program exclusion authority continues to evolve. Over the past few weeks, a federal district court upheld the exclusion of three former pharmaceutical industry executives based on their responsible corporate officer doctrine convictions.

On 16 June the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered a civil penalty of US$50,000 against Mr. Moussa Kourouma after finding that he misrepresented facts concerning his new power trading venture called Quntum Energy LLC (Quntum). See Moussa I. Kourouma d/b/a Quntum Energy LLC, 135 FERC ¶ 61,245 (2011).

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in a majority decision issued in an action brought against Shell alleging complicity in human rights violations in Nigeria, held that because corporate liability is not recognized under customary international law, federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases brought against corporations under the U.S. Alien Tort Statute.

It's now been almost two months since Part 107, the Federal Aviation Administration's new rule for the first time broadly authorizing commercial drone operations in the United States, went into effect.

On 24 January 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP (No. 09-291), that an employee allegedly discharged because his fiancée filed a charge of sex discrimination against their mutual employer has a cause of action against the employer for retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

On July 15, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Act), which President Obama signed into law on July 21.