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What’s New in Wireless - September 2025

The wireless industry has revolutionized the way we connect, from facilitating teleworking, distance learning, and telemedicine to allowing the American public to interact virtually in almost all other aspects of their daily...more

WilmerHale

PTAB/USPTO Update - August 2025

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On July 31, 2025, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Coke Morgan Stewart issued a memorandum indicating that the USPTO “will enforce and no longer waive the requirement of...more

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FMCSA To Accept Public Comments In Response To Petitions Seeking Waiver Of Meal And Rest Period Preemption Determination On Behalf...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 26, 2023, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”) announced they would be accepting comments from the public in response to multiple petitions requesting waivers from the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

CMS Takes a Preliminary Step to Make Certain COVID-19 Waivers Permanent

On August 4, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to update its payment policies under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for calendar year 2021. The proposed rule was...more

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes

FERC Announces Proposal to Tighten Policy on Tariff Waivers

FERC issued a proposal on May 21 to modify its policy regarding requests for waiver of public utility tariff provisions that are subject to FERC’s review and approval under the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

DEA Initiates Rulemaking to Waive Separate Registration for Mobile NTP

On February 26, 2020, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), which proposes waiving the requirement of a separate DEA registration at each principal place of business or...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Organic Waste Regulation Cost Impacts

CalRecycle Study Makes Recommendations to Local Agencies - The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery released a draft report of cost impacts to local agencies to implement Senate Bill 1383 and reduce...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Managing Your Supply Chain Just Got Trickier: Interim FAR Rule Prohibiting Contracting for Telecommunications and Video...

Continuing threats to the supply chain pose increasing risks to our national security. The new interim Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule published on August 13, 2019, seeks to address certain of these threats by...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Sprinting to Coordinated Care: Healthcare Industry Urges Stark Law Relief as OIG Solicits Feedback on Changes to the Anti-Kickback...

August 24, 2018 marked a busy day for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) self-designated "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care," an initiative aimed at dismantling the regulatory barriers to providers...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: A New Proposed Pathway for the Medicare Shared Savings Program Part 2, in a 2-Part Series

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently proposed a major redesign of its Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”) under a new plan it calls “Pathways to Success.” In this Part II of the two-part series...more

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Revisions Planned For The FDIC’s Statement Of Policy For Section 19 Of The Federal Deposit Insurance Act

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The FDIC is accepting comments until March 9, 2018 on the proposed revisions to the Statement of Policy for Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; the FDIC is seeking, among other things, to...more

Genova Burns LLC

IRS Proposes Restrictions on Employer Opt-Out Payments for ACA Coverage Waivers

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In early July the IRS issued proposed regulations addressing the effect that employer payments to employees who waive employer-sponsored health coverage, known as Opt-Out Payments, have on determining whether an ACA-covered...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo Tax Talk - Volume 8, No. 3

Final and Temporary Dividend Equivalent Regulations Issued – Some Good, Some Bad, And Some Ugly: On September 17, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released final and temporary regulations under Section 871(m),...more

King & Spalding

Also In The News - Health Headlines - September 2015 #2

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Final ACO Fraud Waiver Under OMB Review – The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reported on September 9, 2015, that it began its review of the final rule (CMS-1439-F; RIN 0938-AR30), titled “Medicare Shared...more

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