Litigation
A restaurant cook plaintiff’s attempt to pull a franchisor into a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit as co-defendant succeeded with […]
There is one glaring exception to a Department of Justice policy that considers the existence of a compliance program as a factor in determining whether to charge a corporation with a crime.
Two former professional football players are suing the players’ union. claiming the union knew for years about the serious consequences […]
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives, charged with misleading lenders and bond investors in the economic unraveling of the once-lauded firm, […]
Responding to increasingly dangerous and potentially expense cyberattacks, some companies are taking aggressive counter-measures that may either cross the line […]
A lesser-known provision of Dodd-Frank allows the SEC to pursue civil penalties for a broad range of actions through administrative actions and to impose civil penalties on its own as well as in federal court…
The District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has dismissed with prejudice a qui tam lawsuit targeting Kellogg Brown […]
A memo sent by an HR manager but “essentially” ghost-written by the firm’s in-house attorney is not subject to attorney-client […]
Amazon and Craigslist may be forced to reveal the identities of users leaving negative reviews against a company, after a […]
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), one of whose duties it is to protect the United States against the […]
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