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Incident of the week: NCUA issues fraud alert based on fake NCUA fraud alert (which turns out to be part of security consultant's penetration testing)

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued an official NCUA Fraud Alert on August 25, 2009 reporting that someone was sending around a fake NCUA Fraud Alert (.pdf) with CDs purporting to contain security software updates, but instead contained malware

EPA might take another step towards regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

According to an article by BNA published this morning, EPA may soon act to apply the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) provisions of the Clean Air Act to facilities that emit more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually

Imminent and substantial endangerment under RCRA -- I know it when I see it

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

Justice Potter Stewart famously said, with respect to obscenity, that "I know it when I see it."

Dog bites man: EPA announces intent to hire more criminal investigators

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

In a story from today’s Daily Environment Report, Cynthia Giles, the new Assistant Administrator for Enforcement at EPA, stated that she was looking to increase the number of criminal investigators at EPA, noting that "Criminal enforcement is a very important part of our arsenal in achieving compliance and has a powerful deterrent effect."

Attorney general of Massachusetts announces initiative on executive and director compensation

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

The compensation practices of nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts just became subject to increased scrutiny

Senate climate bill pushed back to late September

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2009

Although we had earlier predicted that comprehensive climate legislation could reach a floor vote in the Senate as early as October, that deadline is likely to move to November or later

Massachusetts federal district court in actions alleging off-label promotion of drug dismisses fraud claims for failure to allege physicians’ reliance on a particular misrepresentation, refuses to dismiss fraudulent concealment claims as duplicative of fa

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

In In re Neurontin Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, 618 F. Supp. 2d 96 (D. Mass. 2009), numerous plaintiffs sued the manufacturers of an anti-epilepsy drug in various courts alleging that plaintiffs or their decedents suffered various injuries including suicidal behavior or ideation (“suicidality”

Massachusetts federal district court holds plaintiffs’ pharmaceutical causation experts’ opinions admissible because based on extrapolation of collective epidemiological study to drug at issue, evidence of biological plausibility and adverse event reports

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

In In re Neurontin Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, 612 F. Supp. 2d 116 (D. Mass. 2009), numerous plaintiffs sued the manufacturers of an anti-epilepsy drug in various courts alleging they or their decedents had suffered various injuries including suicidal behavior or ideation (“suicidality”

Recap browser plug-in makes on-line access to court documents free (almost)

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 8 2009

New tools are emerging that are making it a little cheaper and a little easier to access federal court filings via the judiciary's online PACER system

Massachusetts regulators propose amendments to information security regulations, delay enforcement until March 1, 2010

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 18 2009

On Monday, August 17, 2009, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) indicated that it will be modifying some provisions of the strict Massachusetts information security regulations first promulgated last year, 201 CMR 17