Top 10 Government & Public Sector Headlines from All Regions After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) decided last Tuesday, August 3, to cancel a vote on oil spill legislation (S. 3663) after he became concerned that there would be several Democratic defections, renewable energy supporters are preparing to bring the legislation to a vote when the Senate returns in September. Once a rabid dog tastes blood, it is only a short matter of time before it bites again.The initial victim of expropriation was the flagship Half Moon Bay Resort, located on what the Travel Magazine consistently lists as one of the top four beaches in the world, developed and owned by US investors for over thirty five years. In the following case, the court had to consider whether the grant of an interim injunction should be upheld to prevent a contracting authority proceeding with the award of a framework agreement. Range Resources Corporation recently announced it will disclose the chemicals used in its natural-gas fracking process, which hydraulically fractures rocks to free natural gas for pumping. On August 10, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act of 2010 (the "Bill"). The Bill includes several U.S. federal income tax provisions affecting foreign transactions which are primarily aimed at limiting the use of foreign tax credits by U.S. taxpayers. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently released a draft amendment to the Management Methods on the Control of Pollution from Electronic Information Products. In the contest for the Republican nomination for governor, Rick Scott defeated Attorney General Bill McCollum. The unofficial final vote was 595,183 (46.4 percent) for Mr. Scott, 557,318 (43.5 percent) for Mr. McCollum, and 129,989 (10.1 percent) for retired Army Colonel Mike McCalister. Australian Government agencies (and their external lawyers) will need to carefully implement an additional process in order to ensure that methods other than litigation have been fully considered before commencing proceedings. CSA release revised staff notice regarding terrorist financing reporting obligationsAs reported in our post of July 30, 2010, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice 31-317 (Revised) – Reporting Obligations Related to Terrorist Financing on July 30, 2010 (the Revised Notice), updating their initial release of April 16, 2010 Two polls conducted just before Florida's August 24, 2010 primary elections show solid leads for Attorney General Bill McCollum in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-17th Congressional District) in the Democratic contest for the U.S. Senate. | 
