EPA’s Ozone NAAQS Largely Survives: CASAC Still Rules
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If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck, It May Still Not Be Sauce for the Gander
Countdown to CCPA: Foley Hoag Podcast Series
The passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was a seismic event in U.S. data privacy law. CCPA has an expansive, rights-based approach to privacy, with national and international ramifications.
Foley Hoag attorneys Colin Zick, Chris Hart, Christina Hioureas, Yoni Bard and Scott Bloomberg present a podcast discussing what you need to know about the CCPA.…
More Detail on the Massachusetts DG Interconnection Docket
Upcoming Event: Boston Trademark Roundtable with the USPTO (September 17, 2019)
As a Public Charge Rule is Finalized by DHS, Concern Over Upcoming DOJ Rule Grows
Last Fall, we wrote about a proposed regulation issued by the Department of Homeland Security that involved one of our favorite topics: the intersection of immigration and health care law. My colleague Christian Springer and I have been following this proposed regulation very closely, and last week, it was issued in final form. Because it has generated enormous press attention and because it has significant implications for the Medicaid program, we thought we would use…
What Do Pumpkin Spice Lattes and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Have in Common?
D.C. Circuit Reverses District Court in DSH Case
We have long covered the handful of lawsuits that have been filed over the past several years concerning Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (“DSH”) payment policies. These lawsuits all revolve around some steps that CMS had taken in recent years to exclude payments made for dual-eligible (Medicaid and Medicare) patients and payments made by private insurers from DSH hospitals’ uncompensated care costs. CMS promulgated a rule to this effect, which became effective June 2, 2017. (“2017…
TMDL — It Means Total Maximum Daily Load. Literally.
SEC proposes rule changes intended to streamline disclosures of business operations, risk factors and legal proceedings
The SEC recently proposed revisions to Regulation S-K to streamline public companies’ disclosures of their business operations, risk factors and legal proceedings. The proposed revisions affect Items 101(a) and (c), 103 and 105 of Regulation S-K.
Among other changes, the proposed rules would revise the requirements related to the general business description by adopting:
a more principles-based approach that will require each company to address matters material to its business, such as revenue-generating activities, dependence…