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Document(s) published by this organization: 105
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....
| | FERC Issues Notice of Inquiry regarding Open Access to Generator-Owned Interconnection Facilities by Third Parties
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...
| | Coast Guard Issues Final Rule on Ballast Water Management
Jeanne M. Grasso, Tara L. Leiter, Dana S. Merkel, Jonathan K. Waldron; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 1, 2012, previously published on April 2012 On March 23, 2012, the Coast Guard issued a long awaited Final Rule, Standards for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters, amending the existing ballast water management (“BWM”) regulations and creating a standard for the allowable concentration of...
| | 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...
| | Maryland Legislation Would Prohibit Employers from Requesting Facebook, Twitter Passwords
Margaret Elizabeth Patterson; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 16, 2012, previously published on April 2012 Maryland recently became the first state to pass legislation prohibiting employers from requesting or requiring user names or passwords for the social media accounts of employees or job applicants. If Governor Martin O’Malley signs the legislation, the new law will take effect on October 1,...
| | 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...
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