Our Federal Tax Group considers the unclear tax powers of the bankruptcy courts and how the IRS won’t take any determinations too kindly. Prepetition tax claims The IRS’s constitutional and ...

To illustrate, in a white paper titled “United States Patent Invalidity Study 2012”, of the 283 district court cases that made patent validity determinations between 2007 and 2011, 243 cases ...

Key provisions in the Clean Water Act are now under the control of one person at the US Environmental Protection Agency – Administrator Scott Pruitt, according to a leaked memo obtained by CNN.

Expert determinations are a valuable, but overlooked and misunderstood dispute resolution option. When employed correctly, however, expert determinations can be just the right tool for the job.

“Between 1997 and 2012, financial conflicts of interest were ubiquitous in determinations that an additive to food was GRAS”, claim Neltner et al. “ The lack of independent review in GRAS ...

The EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee (CDDC) has been asked on Monday whether a potential failure to pay occurred on Russia's hard-currency bonds, possibly bringing payout on ...

The Davis-Bacon Act [1] requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their work­ers the prevailing wage in the same locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government ...

Determinations are requests for approval that providers are required to submit before providing a service. Far fewer prior authorization reviews for traditional Medicare beneficiaries were submitted ...

Inconsistency with market practice – Even though the SEC has emphasized the company-specific nature of materiality determinations, widespread 8-K disclosure of the same or similar incidents may ...

The EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee (CDDC) on Tuesday accepted a request to address the question of whether a potential failure to pay occurred on Russia's hard-currency bonds ...