A U.S. District Court has handed a victory to Oxfam America in its efforts to compel the SEC to complete rulemaking on the Dodd-Frank mandate regarding resource extraction disclosures (Section 1504).... By: Cooley LLP
Guidelines Will Drive Funding Process; Comments Due Oct. 5 - With the passage of the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1), California voters authorized the issuance of $7.1 billion in general obligation...
The U.S. Department of State imposed sanctions on September 2, 2015, against 23 companies around the world for involvement in the transfer or purchase to or from Iran, North Korea or Syria of goods, services or technology listed on multilateral...
Sarif Biomedical LLC v. Brainlab, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 13-846-LPS, August 26, 2015. Stark, C.J. Claim construction opinion. The following terms of U.S. patent No. 5,755,275 were construed...... By: Morris James LLP
Federal Agency Alleged School Fired Employee Because It Considered Him Too Old and Preferred Females for the Job - MILWAUKEE -The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller has...
With the prevalence of companies providing ‘‘on demand’’ services today, the temptation to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees has perhaps never been greater, attorneys Keith Covington and John P. Rodgers say in this BNA...
We've all been warned about protecting ourselves from identity theft, but one group of victims can't take action to protect themselves—the dead. Identity thieves steal the identities of more than 2 million deceased Americans a year, according to...
Delays have been reported between the approval of a client’s I-765 or I-485 and the client’s receipt of the employment authorization document (EAD) or lawful permanent resident card. USCIS confirmed that the card production facility in Corbin,...
Jon Stewart will sign off from “The Daily Show” for the last time tomorrow. His 16-year rise to prominence — on what some still call a “fake news show” — provides some lessons worthy of more than a few “Moments of Zen” for the content-generating...
The “Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015? (P.L. 114-41, “the Act”) became law on July 31, 2015. Designed as a 3-month extension of the Highway Trust Fund and related measures, the Act includes a number of...
