On February 26, FERC issued an order extending through July 10, 2013, the deadline for all public utility transmission providers to submit their Order No. 1000 compliance filings with respect to interregional transmission coordination procedures as well as an interregional cost allocation method or methods.

On June 15, 2011, NERC filed with FERC for approval of the revised Reliability Standard FAC-008-3 (Facility Ratings), which would replace the currently effective FAC-008-1 and FAC-009-1 Reliability Standards

A previous Morgan Lewis LawFlash, "New Jersey Employers Face New Questions Over Employee Marijuana Use" (January 10, 2010), reported that the New Jersey Legislature had passed the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (the Medical Marijuana law), making New Jersey the fourteenth state to permit regulated use of medical marijuana.

On June 20, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, reviewing whether federal common law would support a claim that greenhouse gas emissions could give rise to a public nuisance claim that would warrant injunctive relief against future emissions.

Effective December 1, 2011, the U.S. Consulate in Chennai will be the sole U.S. Consulate in India to accept applications from foreign nationals applying for an intracompany transfer to the United States under the blanket L visa program.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions on January 26, 2011 to reach the annual cap limit for fiscal year (FY) 2011.

The potential government shutdown could have immigration-related consequences, especially for those immigration functions performed by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

On December 22, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would delay implementation of part 6 of the updated Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently issued a wave of Notices of Inspection (NOI) to selected employers requiring the employers to provide I-9 forms, payroll information, and business information for inspection.

On September 6, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) enacted new regulations that conform the executive, administrative, professional, outside salesperson, and highly compensated exemptions under New Jersey’s Wage and Hour Law with the same exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

March 31, 2011 is the deadline for the first annual reports due under the Mandatory Reporting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule (Mandatory Reporting Rule or the Rule) that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the October 30, 2009 Federal Register.

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.

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.