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Blank Rome LLP Philadelphia, PA Document Search Results (58) Show: results per page Sort by:  | National Labor Relations Board’s Controversial Union Election Rule Declared Invalid
Tara G. La Fiura; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2012, previously published on May 2012 A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled Monday that the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”) controversial rule aimed at streamlining union elections is invalid because it was enacted without the required three-member quorum. (Chamber of Commerce v....
| | 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...
| | IRS Issues Guidance on FATCA/Form 8938 Foreign Asset Reporting Requirements Form 8938 Must Be Filed With Form 1040 due April 17, 2012
Matthew D. Lee, Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 10, 2012, previously published on April 2012 As a follow up to its release of a final version of IRS Form 8938 and instructions on February 29, 2012, the IRS released Basic Questions and Answers on Form 8938 (the "FAQs"). In a previous alert, we discussed some of the general filing requirements with respect to Form 8938 which is...
| | Are You Prepared?: Compliance Programs for Health Care Providers Now Mandatory
Angela M. Guarino, Nicholas C. Harbist; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 5, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The days of voluntary compliance plan adoption are rapidly drawing to a close. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted on March 23, 2010, mandates that health care providers enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid adopt a health care compliance plan. Even if the Supreme Court...
| | 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...
| | NJ LSRPs-Speaking with the Enemy?
Heather L. Demirjian, Benjamin G. Stonelake; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 12, 2012, previously published on March 2012 With limited exceptions, on May 7, 2012, New Jersey's requirement to use Licensed Site Remediation Professionals ("LSRPs") will be expanded to apply to all persons remediating sites in New Jersey. The LSRP program will definitely result in more timely and cost effective remediation of...
| | Secured Lender Loses to IP Owner in Dispute Over Proceeds of Trademarked Inventory
Kory Grushka, Robert B. Stein; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 2012 In an unorthodox ruling, a North Carolina appellate court recently held that a factor of trade receivables had neither a valid ownership interest nor security interest in certain of its borrower's accounts receivable, or the proceeds thereof, because those accounts receivable were generated from...
| | U.S. EPA Issues Long-Awaited Final Health Assessment for Perc, Classifies It as a “Likely Human Carcinogen”
Kevin J. Bruno, John J. DiChello, Margaret Anne Hill; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 2012 For the first time since 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated its health assessment for tetrachloroethylene (more commonly known as perc, and also known as perchloroethylene) by formally classifying the chemical as a "likely human carcinogen" and identifying...
| | Not a Paper Tiger: Current Trends in Health Care Fraud Enforcement
Joelle Epstein, Nicholas C. Harbist; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 15, 2012, previously published on February 2012 The war against health care fraud will wage on in 2012. The federal government made it a national priority. Beginning in February 2011, The Medicare Fraud Strike Force announced a massive enforcement action, which led to charges against 111 defendants for participation in a Medicare fraud scheme...
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