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Supreme Court Rules That Arbitrators Must Decide Whether A Dispute Is Arbitrable, Not Courts, When The Contract So Provides

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Spotlight on Public Finance: Rule 15c2-12 Amendments

Webinar: Disability Law Developments 2018 – What Employers Need to Know

Department of Defense's "Other Transaction Authority"

IRS Provides Issuers Of Tax-Advantaged Debt with New "DIY" Tools to Fix Nonqualified Use

On April 11, 2018, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2018-26 (“Rev. Proc. 2018-26”), which provides an expansion of the remedial actions available to issuers of tax-advantaged bonds. Specifically Rev. Proc. 2018-26 provides: Additional options for issuers seeking to remediate private...

The CFTC and Virtual Currencies: Amidst All the Hype, Don’t Forget “Commodity” is still a Defined Term

The Internet recently erupted with news reports and law firm legal alerts broadcasting the endorsement by a federal court of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) position that virtual currencies (a/k/a cryptocurrencies) are commodities subject to...

FERC Approves Settlement of Alleged Market Manipulation Suit

On April 10, 2018, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) approved a stipulation and consent agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) between FERC’s Office of Enforcement (“Enforcement”) and ETRACOM LLC and Michael...

Bracewell Tax Report: Week of April 9

-- Differing Objectives and Consequences of Recent MLP Conversions to Corporations -- From Hollywood to the Gray Lady: The Impact of Tax Reform on Film, Television and Print Media - Part 2 -- The New Partnership Audit Rules, Part 3:...

“Why Matters” – In Texas, Proving Same-Sex Harassment “More Complicated” than Proving Opposite-Sex Harassment

On April 6, 2018, the Texas Supreme Court issued a decision assessing what evidence is necessary to support an actionable same-sex sexual harassment claim. In an opinion totaling over 100 pages, the six-justice majority and two-justice dissent sparred over the...

U.S. Futures Exchanges Disciplinary Actions Alert: March 2018

The Bracewell U.S. Futures Exchanges Disciplinary Actions Report is a monthly report that provides summaries of certain disciplinary notices by U.S. exchanges during the prior month. The report has a...

Court Provides Further Clarity Regarding Scope of FERC’s Enforcement Authority

On March 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued an opinion granting in part and denying in part motions to dismiss the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) action seeking to enforce its assessment of civil penalties against Coaltrain...