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NC Joint Legislative Commission on Energy Policy Explores LNG and In-state Oil & Natural Gas Exploration

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

Among the issues addressed during the February 4, 2014 meeting of the North Carolina Joint Legislative Commission on Energy Policy were (1) the current state of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and facilities and (2) the progress of the NC Mining...

SEC Issues Guidance on its 2014 Examination Priorities

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

Each year, the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examination's National Exam Program (NEP) issues a letter communicating to investors and registrants the areas that the staff perceives to present heightened risks. This year, the NEP published...

California Environmental Law and Policy Update - February 13, 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

Environmental and Policy Focus - Sens. Feinstein, Boxer propose emergency drought legislation: SFGate - Feb 13: Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer proposed emergency drought legislation Tuesday ahead of President Obama's planned visit to...

Health Care Reform Update -- February 18, 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

In This Issue: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act; Other Federal Regulatory Initiatives; Other Congressional and State Initiatives; Other Health Care News; and Hearings and Mark-Ups Scheduled. Excerpt from Implementation of the...

PA Tax Law News - February 2014: PA Governor's Budget Proposal Preserves Capital Stock/Franchise Tax Phase-out

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has proposed a FY2014-15 state budget that includes no new taxes and no mainstream tax increases. This would preserve the phase-out of the Capital Stock and Franchise Taxes on the stretched-out schedule adopted last...

Last Week at the FEC: Commission Asked to Approve a Framework for Acceptance and Use of Bitcoins

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

Last week the Federal Election Commission did not meet, but made public AOR 2014-02, an Advisory Opinion Request from Make Your Laws PAC ("MYL PAC") related to Bitcoins, as well as a Final Audit Report related to the North Dakota Republican Party and...

Microsoft Takes Home The Gold In Arbitration Against Yahoo!

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

For the past several years, Yahoo! has been merging its search engine and search ads system, Panama, with Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Yahoo! “paused” its efforts to integrate with Microsoft in Taiwan and Hong Kong when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...

NIST Releases Final Cybersecurity Framework

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

On February 12, the Obama Administration released the Cybersecurity Framework prepared by NIST, as called for by Executive Order 13636 issued by President Obama one year ago. The Framework organizes best practices regarding cyber risks into three...

NIST Finalizes Cybersecurity Framework For Critical Infrastructure—Implementation Next On The Agenda

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

On February 12, 2014, exactly one year to the day on which President Obama tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with creating a Cybersecurity Framework to help protect critical infrastructure, NIST released the initial...

International Ediscovery: Best Practices Around the World

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/02/14

Over six thousand athletes from eighty-five countries have gathered to compete. When you sit down to watch the events, remember that behind every flag is a unique legal system, with diverse privacy laws and ediscovery rubrics. As these laws become...

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