In March, World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer was charged with soliciting a male prostitute. Raymer was one of six men arrested in a police prostitution sting at a Wake Forest hotel. Local police said the men responded to an advertisement...
On January 21, the California Court of Appeal, Second District, held that short-term, small-dollar credit businesses owned by certain federally recognized Indian tribes are sufficiently related to their respective tribes to be protected under the...
House GOP Discusses immigration and Border Security at Retreat - At the House GOP’s annual retreat on January 30-31, the caucus debated a broad set of immigration and border security principles drafted by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert...
SGR Reform Negotiations - Staff negotiations on a package to overhaul the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula are gaining steam as the Committees of jurisdiction tackle a significant hurdle left unaddressed to date: how to pay for reform. Last...
Congress Examines A Series of Regulatory Reports - Last week, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing to explore the annual report and oversight of the Department of Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR)...
The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requires EU-counterparties to all derivative contracts, whether traded on- or off-exchange, to report certain information and details relating to the trade to a registered trade repository (TR)....
In This Issue: Leading the News; United States – Africa Relations; North Africa; East Africa; West Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; and General Africa News. Excerpt from Leading the News - African Union Summit: On January 26th, the State...
Addressing a finding of obviousness by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (now the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) (Board) following inter partes reexamination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...
Governor’s State of the State Address Scheduled for Next Week: On January 24th, the Governor’s Office announced that Governor LePage will deliver his annual State of the State Address on Tuesday evening, February 4th. In this speech, the Governor...
In previous posts (Proposed Changes to UK's TUPE will impact outsourcing deals, The UK Government consults on proposed changes to the TUPE regulations) we highlighted the UK Government's proposed changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of...
