On February 28, 2013, Fulbright filed amici curiae briefs on behalf of over 60 public interest organizations with the U.S. Supreme Court as part of the Proposition 8...

Environmental due diligence as a process has the goal of providing buyers and lenders confidence that they are not purchasing a future remediation obligation...

The Supreme Court issued two important securities litigation decisions yesterday. First, in a 6-3 decision, the Court held that securities fraud plaintiffs asserting a...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has proposed new rules designed to guide purchasers of Renewable Fuel Identification Numbers (RINs) in verifying...

On February 8, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission voted to approve a consent decree filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to resolve a...

On February 4, 2013, the Treasury Department promulgated final regulations concerning the treatment of "noncompensatory options," such as warrants and...

On February 1, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission issued a staff report containing recommendations for various participants in the mobile app ecosystem: from platforms to...

In the past few years, former employees are more litigious, readily filing charges of discrimination or lawsuits. Why? Perhaps it is because, with...

On February 4, 2013, a divided California Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling addressing the scope of the state's landmark privacy law that prohibits...

As the 2013 annual meeting proxy season gets underway, companies should be aware of a new litigation tactic being pursued by certain shareholder class action plaintiffs...

Resolving a split between California appellate and federal courts, the California Supreme Court, in Aryeh v. Canon Bus. Sols., Inc., Case No. 8184929 (Jan. 24, 2013),...

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") today announced increased reporting thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (t...

On December 26, 2012, the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") published a final rule amending the Iranian Transactions and...

On January 2, 2013, the United States Department of Health and Human Services' ("HHS") Office of Civil Rights announced a settlement with the Hospice of...

Privacy and data protection are currently global hot-button concerns. To address privacy concerns in bankruptcy, Congress includes a number of privacy and data-protection...