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March 05, 2025
Revived Bill To Add Judges Teed Up For Another House Vote
The House Judiciary Committee voted out of committee three bills on Wednesday along party lines, including legislation to add more federal judgeships that the federal judiciary says are needed desperately but has become subject to partisan fighting.
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March 05, 2025
Ex-DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark Returns To Trump Administration
Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who is facing criminal charges in Georgia and fighting to save his law license over claims that he helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has returned to the federal government.
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March 05, 2025
Water Main Co. Will Pay $1M After Chemicals Killed Fish
A sewer and water line maintenance company was sentenced to pay $1 million and will spend three years on federal probation after knowingly dumping pollutants into a Connecticut waterway, killing over 150 fish and contaminating the area, acting U.S. Attorney Marc H. Silverman has announced.
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March 05, 2025
Senate Confirms Todd Blanche To Be Trump's Deputy AG
The Senate voted 52-46 on Wednesday to confirm Todd Blanche, one of President Donald Trump's former criminal attorneys, to be deputy attorney general.
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March 05, 2025
Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Fried Frank In DC
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced that a Cooley LLP attorney who previously spent more than 15 years in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner.
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March 05, 2025
Atty's Vanity Plate Gets Spotlight In Fatal Shooting Trial
A Connecticut prosecutor has zeroed in on the vanity license plate that was on Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s car when he fatally shot an attacker in June 2021, asking the defendant's character witnesses Wednesday if they knew about it, and if so, what they thought of it.
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March 05, 2025
Atty Who Repped Trump And Bannon Joins Brownstein Hyatt
Evan Corcoran, who represented President Donald Trump in his classified documents case and Steve Bannon in his contempt of Congress trial, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
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March 05, 2025
Combs Prosecutors Deny 'Outrageous' Race Bias Claim
Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge that hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' claims that no white defendant has ever faced a similar case in an effort to dismiss one of the criminal counts against him were "outrageous" and "illogical," and conveniently ignored the allegations of a yearslong pattern of violence and sexual coercion.
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March 05, 2025
Ex-Girlfriend Of $36M Crypto Schemer Admits Hiding Profits
The ex-girlfriend of a cryptocurrency founder who evaded taxes on a $36 million hacking scheme admitted to hiding profits from the IRS and participating in the ploy by heading shell companies and paying Los Angeles sheriff's deputies to target his enemies, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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March 04, 2025
Gov't Says 2 Lab Owners Billed $40M In COVID Test Scheme
Federal prosecutors opened their case Tuesday against two laboratory owners, telling jurors in Florida that they ran a more than $40 million scheme to submit medically unnecessary COVID-19 testing claims to healthcare benefit programs.
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March 04, 2025
House GOP Push WH Right To Send State Cases To Fed. Court
House Republicans on Tuesday rallied behind a bill that would let current and former presidents move state cases against them to federal court, calling the legislation a response to weaponized prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
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March 04, 2025
AG Asks Mich. High Court To Preserve Anti-Terrorism Law
Michigan's attorney general asked the state Supreme Court to put on hold a ruling striking down the state's anti-terrorist threat law as unconstitutional, saying the ruling threatens to unravel ongoing prosecutions and hamper future responses to threats of violence.
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March 04, 2025
2nd Circ. Mulls Blackmail Case's Effect On Fraud Conviction
Second Circuit judges looked tempted Tuesday to let Scott Tucker, who is incarcerated on charges that he ran a $2 billion payday lending scam, file a new appeal — after hearing that Tucker's trial counsel faced blackmail from an unrelated client during Tucker's $2 billion fraud trial.
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March 04, 2025
Bondi Taps NY Atty To Lead Northern District
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that longtime Westchester County attorney John Sarcone III has been tapped to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York.
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March 04, 2025
Ohio Workers' Chrysler-UAW Conspiracy Suit Gets Tossed
Employees who claimed Fiat Chrysler and the United Auto Workers conspired to keep about three dozen of them classified as part-time temps for years despite them often performing full-time work had their case tossed Tuesday by an Ohio federal judge, who said they sued too late.
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March 04, 2025
Atty Says He Feared For His Life Before Killing Attacker
Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. said Tuesday he was afraid for his life when he fatally shot a man who attacked him in the parking lot of his Connecticut law firm, and felt that he could not retreat from the confrontation.
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March 04, 2025
Trump Asks 2nd Circ. To Take Over Hush Money Appeal
President Donald Trump asked the Second Circuit to take over his New York state court appeal of his hush money conviction, saying the "extraordinary" case implicated official acts from his first term.
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March 04, 2025
Kan. Man Says 80s Pot Conviction Can't Block Gun Purchase
A man who was convicted of a cannabis crime in 1984 is suing the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, alleging he was wrongly denied an application to purchase a firearm even though he completed his sentence in 1987 and his conviction was expunged in 2018.
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March 04, 2025
Career DOJ Atty, Civil Division Chief Of Staff Joins Jenner
Jenner & Block LLP has hired the former chief of staff of the Justice Department's Civil Division, who is joining the firm after spending her entire career in public service, the firm announced Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Ex-Texas US Atty Hamdani Joins Bracewell In Houston
Bracewell LLP announced Tuesday that Alamdar S. Hamdani, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, has joined the firm as a Houston-based partner in its government enforcement and investigations practice, bringing 17 years of Department of Justice experience to the team.
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March 04, 2025
Lead Testing Operations Chief To Admit Misbranding Charge
The former chief operating officer of Magellan Diagnostics will admit to defrauding the public by hiding flaws in the company's lead testing devices for years, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.
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March 04, 2025
Feds Seek 40 Mos. For Husband Of Ex-Takeda Exec
The husband of a former Takeda Pharmaceuticals vice president should spend more than three years in custody for his role in a fraudulent invoice scheme that netted the couple $2.3 million, prosecutors have told a federal judge in Massachusetts.
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March 04, 2025
Ex-Mass. US Atty Heads Back To Ropes & Gray
A former Massachusetts U.S. attorney is returning to Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston, the firm announced Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Former Prosecutor, Enviro Leader Tapped As US Atty For NJ
President Donald Trump has tapped a former federal prosecutor and onetime partner at Archer & Greiner PC to serve as U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
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March 04, 2025
New US Atty Wants 6-Month Pause Of Cognizant Bribery Trial
A federal judge has ordered the parties in a long-running Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case to file their positions Wednesday about how a 180-day adjournment would affect the Speedy Trial Act clock after a newly anointed U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey asked to delay the trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives.
Expert Analysis
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.
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Private-Bidding Compliance Lessons From Siemens Plea Deal
Siemens Energy’s recent wire fraud conspiracy guilty plea shows that U.S. prosecutors are willing and able to police the private, domestic bidding market to protect the integrity of the competitive marketplace, and companies will need a robust compliance program to mitigate these risks, say attorneys at Foley Hoag.
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Kansas Bank's Suit Could Upend FDIC Enforcement Authority
Should CBW Bank's federal lawsuit in Kansas challenging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s enforcement authority gain traction with a post-Chevron U.S. Supreme Court, it could have profound implications for the FDIC and the banking industry at large, says Jack Harrington at Bradley Arant.
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FCA Enforcement Would Make Trump's Tariffs More Effective
In implementing its trade policies, the Trump administration is likely to employ the False Claims Act, a powerful enforcement tool that would give tariffs and customs duties teeth, help raise promised revenue and prevent evaders from gaining a competitive advantage, says Sam Buffone at Buffone Law.
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End-Of-Year FCPA Enforcement Surge Holds Clues For 2025
The last three months of 2024 saw more Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions than any quarter in the previous four years, providing lessons for companies — even as a new administration raises doubts about whether this momentum will continue, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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Artfully Conceding Liability Can Offer Defendants 3 Benefits
In the rare case that a company makes the strategic decision to admit liability, it’s important to do so clearly and consistently in order to benefit from the various forms of armor that come from an honest acknowledgment, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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What's Next For Accounting Enforcement After SEC's Big 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration will likely continue to focus enforcement efforts on many of the same accounting and auditing issues that it pursued over the past year — but other areas, such as ESG, internal controls and cryptocurrency cases, may fall out of focus, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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The Most Important Schedule I Drug Regulatory Shifts Of 2024
In 2024, psychedelics and cannabis emerged as focal points in medical research, marking a pivotal year in their legal and regulatory journey, but these developments presented both opportunities and challenges within this evolving field, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Stephen Kim at Avicanna.
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UPS Penalty Demonstrates Goodwill Impairment Red Flags
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $45 million penalty against UPS for withholding reports of goodwill impairment should warn investors to watch for the telltale signs of companies inflating their worth by delaying tests that would reveal similar declines in the value of intangible assets, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Despite Political Divide, FEC Found Common Ground In '24
The Federal Election Commission, although evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, reached consensus in consequential advisory opinions, enforcement actions and regulations last year, offering welcome clarity on some key questions facing campaigns, PACs and parties, say attorneys at Covington.
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For Accounting Integrity, Start With The Rank-And-File
Macy's acknowledgment of an employee's accounting mistake underscores a valuable lesson for company leaders in fostering compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by cultivating a culture committed to strong accounting integrity and robust oversight, say Keerthika Subramanian and Jon Mantis at Winston & Strawn.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.