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Nicholas A. Giannasca, Carlos E. Gutierrez, Elizabeth A. Stern; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 9, 2012, previously published on May 2012 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued a Notice of Inquiry on April 19th ("NOI") seeking comment on its policy regarding capacity priority rights and open access on developer-owned interconnection facilities that connect generation facilities to the integrated...
| | FERC Approves Version 4 CIP Reliability Standards Containing “Bright Line” Criteria for the Identification of Critical Assets
Nicholas A. Giannasca, Carlos E. Gutierrez, Elizabeth A. Stern; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 1, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC"), on April 19, 2012, approved the eight modified Critical Infrastructure Protection ("CIP") Reliability Standards, CIP-002-4 through CIP-009-4 ("Version 4 CIP Standards"), which were developed and submitted for approval...
| | Court Approves Use of Technology that Dramatically Cuts Cost of Discovery
Ryan Cronin, Michelle Gitlitz Courtney, James V. Masella; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 1, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The early stages of large litigations have long been consumed by manual document review-namely-junior lawyers who spend weeks or months culling through mountains of documents at great expense to the client. Fortunately, such expenses could decrease substantially under a recent decision. Last week,...
| | PaPUC Establishes a New Policy that Permits Customer-Generators to Net Meter when the Alternative Energy System is Owned and Operated by a Third-Party
Christopher A. Lewis, Elizabeth A. Stern; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission ("PaPUC") issued a final order on March 29, 2012 ("Final Order") that sets forth a new policy under which the definition of "customer-generator" for purposes of net metering includes those customer-generators that contract...
| | U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Generic Pharmaceutical Companies can Counterclaim to Correct Use Codes in FDA Orange Book When Sued by Brand Companies
Brian Wm. Higgins, Jay P. Lessler; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 17, 2012, in Caraco Pharmaceutical Labs. Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S, slip no.10-844, that a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer can counterclaim to have a “use code” for a method of use patent corrected in the FDA Orange Book. Generic manufacturers...
| | U.S. Supreme Court Holds That New Evidence May Be Introduced In District Court Suits Brought Against the Patent Office for Rejecting a Patent Application
Brian Wm. Higgins, Jay P. Lessler; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The Supreme Court on April 18, 2012 held in Kappos v. Hyatt, slip no. 10-1219, that new evidence, as permissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), may be introduced in a civil suit challenging the rejection of a patent application by the...
| | FERC Conditionally Approves NERC’s “Find, Fix, Track and Report” Process
Nicholas A. Giannasca, Carlos E. Gutierrez, Elizabeth A. Stern; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 5, 2012, previously published on March 2012 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission") conditionally approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s ("NERC’s") "Find, Fix, Track, and Report" ("FFT") proposal in an order issued on March 15,...
| | PJM Market Monitor Issues State of the Market Report with New Capacity Market Design Recommendations
Nicholas A. Giannasca, Carlos E. Gutierrez; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 26, 2012, previously published on March 2012 In accordance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) requirements, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM’s”) Independent Market Monitoring Unit, Monitoring Analytics, LLC (“Market Monitor” or “MMU”) issued its annual State of the...
| | Supreme Court Issues Stunning Rebuke To EPA Enforcement Practice
Kevin J. Bruno, Heather L. Demirjian, Margaret Anne Hill, Benjamin G. Stonelake; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 26, 2012, previously published on March 2012 In a stunning rebuke to decades of EPA practice, the United States Supreme Court on March 21, 2012 changed the way many of our federal environmental laws will be enforced. The Court unanimously rejected decades of EPA practice, and overturned lower court precedent, by declaring that recipients of...
| | The PaPUC Takes Steps to Boost Competition in Pennsylvania’s Retail Electric Market
Christopher A. Lewis, Elizabeth A. Stern; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 21, 2012, previously published on March 2012 The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission ("PaPUC" or "Commission") issued an order adopting an intermediate work plan ("Intermediate Plan") on March 1, 2012, that sets forth various requirements and programs that are designed to increase the short-term customer...
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