On November 4, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Large Business and International Division released a much anticipated directive on its new Information Document Request enforcement process. Scheduled to take effect in January 2014, the IRS is...
Last week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB" or "Board") issued the first inter partes review opinion in case IPR2012-00001, Garmin USA, Inc. (Petitioner) v. Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC (Patent Owner). In what is being considered good news...
In two separate no-action letters, the SEC staff quietly expanded the ability of business development companies (BDCs) to invest in registered investment advisers. Section 12(d)(3) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 generally prohibits...
Today the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services met at noon. Mr. Joe Cooper, DHHS’ Chief Information Officer, spoke on behalf of DHHS. He began by explaining that NCTracks is not NC Fast, which I believe we already...
Physician-owned hospitals that seek to avail themselves of the “whole hospital” exception or “rural provider” exception to the federal physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark Law, should carefully review their Medicare enrollment...
Harkening back to a more traditional familial structure, more seniors are living with their children and relatives, according to two new Census reports. If you think it's because of the economy, guess again: It's because of changing demographics.
A 28-year-old highway worker lost his life when a Tampa Bay woman’s silver pickup truck swerved off the road into a series of construction barrels that filled the closed lane. The young man was busy painting fresh lines on Suncoast Parkway when the...
On Friday, November 8, 2013, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which comprises Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, affirmed a $3.2 million damages award for copyright infringement in favor of Kipp Flores Architects,...
Environmental and Policy Focus - California Court Upholds State's Authority to Sell Carbon Allowances at Auction: Reuter's - Nov 14 -- The California Air Resources Board (ARB) can sell carbon emission allowances at quarterly auctions as part of...
On November 14, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Divisions of Clearing and Risk, Market Oversight and Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (the Divisions) issued guidance to swap execution facilities (SEFs) and applicants for registration...
