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Whether you’re manufacturing widgets or rubber bands, paper products or cheese, one thing most manufacturers have in common is being subject to various regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Manufacturers often experience regulation...

Roundtable Discussions to Spur Dialogue on Possible Rule Changes Roughly eighteen months have passed since the USPTO’s implementation of the new post grant patent challenges of the America Invents Act (AIA). Since the rules for implementing these...

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 7 / Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering making regulatory changes to the EB–5 Immigrant Investor Regional Center Program. Based on decades of experience operating...

"USCIS is seeking public comments on a proposed rule that would expand eligibility for provisional waivers of inadmissibility based on the accrual of unlawful presence. The proposed rule would expand eligibility to all foreign nationals who are statutorily...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 07/21/2016 - "Pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS or Department) is adopting a process under which interested persons may petition...

"A new rule governing the H-2B labor certification process is being reviewed by the Office of the Federal Register and could be published as soon as next week, lawyers for the U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security told a Florida...

" At the recently concluded CIS Second Annual Conference in Washington DC on October 18, 2012, Cyrus D. Mehta addressed key issues ripe for rulemaking involving unlawful presence, American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (known as "AC...

by James E. Earle Esq. and Mark D. Perlow Esq. Excerpt: On March 30, 2011, seven federal financial regulators (each, an " Agency ," and collectively, the " Agencies ") published a proposed rule (the " Proposed Rule "...

Our firm is working on a comment letter to submit to the SEC, but in the meantime I thought I would deliver some thoughts that are purely my own as the SEC pursues the massive rulemaking job put upon it by the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS...

by James E. Earle Esq. and Mark D. Perlow Esq. Excerpt: On March 30, 2011, seven federal financial regulators (each, an " Agency ," and collectively, the " Agencies ") published a proposed rule (the " Proposed Rule "...

One of the strange splits in US financial regulation is that many swap and derivatives are regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission instead of the Securities and Exchange Commission. I think of the CFTC, I think of Trading Places and with...

In many instances, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act merely set a framework for financial reform and left much of the heavy lifting to the financial regulatory agencies. The SEC published their agenda for the implementation...

by Keith R. Fisher The Federal Reserve has extended the comment period on its Basel III regulatory capital rulemaking from its original September 7 deadline until October 22, 2012. The rulemaking, which was the subject of a previous Ballard Spahr legal...

Excerpt: On June 30, 2010, the House adopted the conference report on H.R. 4173, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Bill" or "Bill"). The Senate is expected to follow suit when it returns from...

This morning, the three federal bank regulatory agencies announced that their proposed new capital rules based on Basel III (and other Basel standards) would not take effect on January 1, 2013, a date previously proposed apparently in order to adhere...