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By Todd Hinnen, Michael Sussmann |
May 18, 2012
While no one is optimistic about seeing progress from Congress on immigration reform, deficit reduction and most other big-ticket policy issues, the smart money may be on Congress actually passing some cybersecurity legislation within the next year, perhaps even before the November election.
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By Barbara Lichman |
May 16, 2012
The U.S. Forest Service and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), an organization representing ski areas throughout the U.S. are going head to head over a clause recently inserted in permits that allows NSAA members to operate on national forest system lands.
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By Barbara Lichman |
May 2, 2012
The Obama administration has taken the first regulatory action toward development of offshore wind energy projects in the Great Lakes by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with certain states bordering the Great Lakes to expedite environmental review of proposed projects.
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By Alex Vorro |
April 25, 2012
The past few years have been hard on bailed-out insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG). Adding to its already full plate of hassles is a lawsuit it filed yesterday against Los Angeles billionaire Steven Udvar-Házy, the former head of its International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) aircraft leasing business, which...
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By Alex Vorro |
April 11, 2012
Lying to the IRS typically isn’t the best way to ingratiate oneself with the federal government and its employees. Therefore, it should come as little shock that Judge Andrew Guilford of the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., yesterday ruled in favor of Swiss bank UBS AG in a...
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By Ashley Post |
April 10, 2012
The federal government just tackled beloved former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon.
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By Barbara Lichman |
April 4, 2012
With the long awaited passage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 658 (FAA Reauthorization Act), on March 6, 2012, the increasing pace of expansion of both commercial and general aviation airports, and the FAA’s new airspace redesign initiatives to reduce delay, airport noise...
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By John Fagg, Valecia McDowell |
March 29, 2012
When you think about secretive law enforcement techniques such as wiretaps and reliance on confidential informants, you probably imagine gritty TV dramas like HBO’s “The Wire” and “The Sopranos” or Fox’s “24.” And understandably so. Historically, the government has used wiretaps and informants to snare “blue-collar” criminals in investigations related...
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By Cathleen Flahardy |
March 28, 2012
A judge in Texas has finalized the $158 million settlement Johnson & Johnson (J&J) reached with the state in January over the marketing of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
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By Cathleen Flahardy |
March 13, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a $45 million agreement with the federal government to settle claims the financial giant charged veterans hidden fees in mortgage refinancing transactions.
