On May 27, 2020, the Treasury Department responded to Congressional requests to extend safe harbors for the renewable energy production tax credit (“PTC”) and the energy investment tax credit (“ITC”) to provide temporary relief for renewable energy developers during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. 2018 Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) guidance creates […]
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Each year we review the cyber breaches as reported to the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office. This article is the last of three articles to review the reported information. In this final article we look at the types of breaches suffered by businesses and how the breaches occurred. Types of Breaches […]
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues, requiring social distancing into the summer months, it is a good time to review procedures and methods available for persons to sign and execute documents electronically, without the need for face-to-face interactions. Two laws primarily govern the electronic signature of documents: The Electronic Signature in […]
On April 20, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in United States v. Van Buren, 940 F.3d 1192 (11th Cir. 2019), which broadly interpreted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), the main federal anti-hacking statute, as prohibiting otherwise authorized access of electronically stored information when that access […]
Since the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act was signed into law, the guidance for the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) Payroll Protection Program (“PPP”) has been changing on an almost daily basis, making compliance for both borrowers and lenders difficult. Our previous articles identified the sources that the SBA […]
