Obama administration

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  Public approval of Supreme Court reaches new low

  By Alex Vorro  |  May 2, 2012

  Public approval of major social phenomena, the economy, politicians and appointed officials is always apt to wax and wane with time. For the U.S. Supreme Court, though, public opinion is currently waning like a crescent moon.

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  Regulatory: The Obama administration agrees to expedite development of Great Lakes offshore wind projects

  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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  Keynote roundup: SuperConference day 2

  By Julie Beck  |  April 24, 2012

  The second day of SuperConference kicked off with a keynote panel on how general counsel can shape government policy.

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  Joe Wayland named acting assistant AG of DOJ’s Antitrust Division

  By Ashley Post  |  April 6, 2012

  After just a year and a half at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Joe Wayland is getting a big promotion.

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  U.S. airlines drop lawsuit against EU carbon emissions law

  By Alex Vorro  |  March 28, 2012

  A group of U.S. airlines have dropped their private lawsuit against the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, which implemented a law January 1 that taxes airlines for carbon emissions on transatlantic flights.

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  EU updates data protection rules

  By Melissa Maleske  |  March 27, 2012

  Data Protection Regulation expands EU's jurisdiction

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  Supreme Court to finally hear ObamaCare arguments

  By Alex Vorro  |  March 26, 2012

  The long-awaited day has finally come. Two years after the Obama administration passed the much-maligned Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Supreme Court today finally begins to hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the law. And the hype is so large that spectators have been queuing up...

• Regulatory: Financial industry may get its wish to scrap the Volcker Rule

  By Matthew Ingber  |  March 15, 2012

  Last week a group of about 100 CEOs asked the Obama administration to slash a number of Dodd-Frank provisions expected to roll out in July.

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  Judge says Big Tobacco’s free speech rights were violated

  By Cathleen Flahardy  |  March 1, 2012

  A U.S. judge yesterday ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) requirement that tobacco companies include graphic labels on cigarette packaging is unconstitutional.

• FTC aggressively seeking to block provider consolidations while making way for ACOs

  By Logan Breed, Corey Roush, Leigh Oliver  |  March 1, 2012

  For the past several years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) have acted aggressively to protect competition in the health care industry. For example, the FTC has filed complaints to enjoin three separate proposed hospital consolidations in the last year.