October 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected petitions by an Alabama fertility clinic and disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, among others, in a set of denial orders issued Monday. Meanwhile, in Texas, major drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers have been hit with a suit by the state alleging they conspired to artificially hike the price of insulin medications.
October 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether a "willful" act under federal anti-kickback law requires a defendant to know their actions violate the law.
June 18, 2024
Does a "willful" act under federal anti-kickback law require a defendant to know that the conduct violates the law? That's the question a whistleblower is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to answer in order to resolve what the petition calls a circuit split on a key question of federal fraud prosecutions.