Critical Infrastructure Sectors, Railroads

Railway Fails to Establish Right to Use Eminent Domain

Nossaman LLP on 5/2/2023

In eminent domain cases, it is uncommon that right to take challenges are upheld, and when they are, it is typically a procedural deficiency that can be cured. It is even more unusual where a right to take challenge is...more

For OT Cybersecurity, Extra Time is Running Out

Polsinelli on 12/22/2022

Operational technology (OT) is hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets, processes and events. By design, OT underpins many critical...more

DOT Releases Policy Recommendations Targeting Supply Chain Disruption

K&L Gates LLP on 3/10/2022

Dozens of ships anchored outside of America’s busiest ports, steadily spiking freight rates, and frustrated consumers inheriting both the paralyzing delays and the exorbitant price increases: these have been the painful...more

TSA Rail Cybersecurity Directives Show Increasing Government Regulation of Critical Infrastructure and the Private Sector

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/6/2021

What: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued two Security Directives aimed at passenger and freight railroad cybersecurity, continuing the government’s move to an increasingly regulatory approach to...more

Big Changes in the Village of Westbury: Zoning Amendment Sows the Seeds for New Transit-Oriented Development

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 12/31/2019

On December 5, 2019, the Village of Westbury Board of Trustees adopted legislation creating the Maple Union Transit-Oriented Development District (or “Maple Union TOD”)....more

Rail Issues Before the New Administration

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/16/2017

There was a plenty of rail-related activity during the 114th Congress and the last two years of the Obama Administration. Amtrak and the Surface Transportation Board (STB) were reauthorized with major changes to Amtrak's...more