Victims of state-sponsored terrorism will more readily be able to recover damages from terrorist states as a result of a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which was signed into law today.
Client Alert | January 28, 2008
On September 14, 2007, the President signed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (S. 1). This legislation makes important changes in federal election and lobbying laws, as well as the House and Senate rules.Most of the House rules described below were adopted unilaterally by the House on January 5, 2007 as part of H.
Client Alert | September 14, 2007
With the newly installed, Democrat-controlled Congress comes a greater focus on aggressive congressional scrutiny of private- and public-sector behavior.
Client Alert | May 14, 2007
In the days after the Dubai Ports World deal failed, more than twenty different pieces of legislation were introduced in the Congress. In recent weeks, there have been a series of Committee hearings on these various legislative proposals that would affect foreign investment in the United States, including the interagency process by which such investments are overseen.There are two main pieces of legislation that will bear watching in coming weeks and are likely to be enacted into law this summer.
Client Alert | April 11, 2006