United States, Petitioner v. Helaman Hansen

  1. July 24, 2023

    High Court Didn't Shrink Kickback Law's Scope, DOJ Insists

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday broke its silence on efforts to wield recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions against a prohibition on health care kickbacks, accusing a drugmaker-backed coalition of twisting the high court's words.

  2. July 14, 2023

    Justices Quietly Added Ammo To Big Pharma's Kickback Blitz

    The pharmaceutical industry's ambitious assault on an increasingly formidable law against health care corruption is suddenly equipped with powerful ammunition in the form of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in seemingly unrelated areas, according to attorneys leading the industry's attack.

  3. July 11, 2023

    Justices Hand Down 2023's Top Immigration Decisions So Far

    The U.S. Supreme Court delivered four major immigration decisions in the first half of 2023, including narrowing when states have standing to challenge federal immigration policy and broadening when obstruction of justice offenses are cause for deportation.

  4. June 23, 2023

    Justices Revive Immigration Speech Law Killed By 9th Circ.

    The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Ninth Circuit's finding that a 70-year-old law is unconstitutionally overbroad, ruling instead that the statute that criminalizes the encouragement of unauthorized immigration does not flout the First Amendment.

  5. March 27, 2023

    Gorsuch Balks At Potential Chill Of Immigration Speech Law

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed unpersuaded Monday that a 70-year-old law that criminalizes "encouraging or inducing" unauthorized immigration flouts the First Amendment, since it has never been used so broadly to prosecute protected speech.

  6. March 24, 2023

    Up Next At High Court: Inducing Migration, Speech Or Crime?

    This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a major patent battle between pharmaceutical giants, as well as a challenge to a statute making it a crime to encourage illegal immigration that has vexed the justices in recent years.

  7. March 18, 2023

    50 Years In, Industry Has Knives Out For Potent Kickback Law

    After 50 years of existence, the nation's signature statute criminalizing health care corruption faces a moment of truth amid industry-led legal challenges and new circuit splits — an inflection point with clear echoes of the landmark law's turbulent evolution into a formidable fraud fighter, attorneys told Law360.

  8. March 17, 2023

    Feds Tell Justices Flap Over Immigration Law Overblown

    The Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court Friday there is no real danger that part of an invalidated federal immigration law that penalizes individuals for encouraging unlawful entry into the country will be used to prosecute protected speech.

  9. March 08, 2023

    Justices Are Told Immigration Law Silences Journalists

    A group of press organizations urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to affirm an appeals court ruling exonerating a California man for encouraging unlawful immigration and invalidating a statute criminalizing its encouragement, arguing that the law's "overbroad" language endangers press freedom.

  10. February 24, 2023

    Myriad Groups Ask Justices To Keep Immigration Law Axed

    A slew of media associations, local governments, social services groups and law experts urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a ruling that partly cleared a California man of encouraging unlawful immigration, claiming that rejecting the decision would overstep First Amendment rights and criminalize the act of soliciting civilly punishable conduct.