A federal district court in Florida earlier this month reversed a jury verdict and vacated a $350 million False Claims Act award, joining the growing number of courts to strictly apply the materiality standard set by the US Supreme Court.
As was widely reported, Congress approved legislation late Monday, January 22, 2018 to provide continuing appropriations for federal agencies through February 8, 2018, ending the government shutdown that began Saturday.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) will dramatically change the tax treatment of income from many partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations.
Thanks to the Maryland General Assembly’s override of Governor Larry Hogan’s veto, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (the Act) will go into effect on February 11, 2018, unless its implementation date is extended by the legislators.
A new administrative rule promulgated and adopted by the Attorney General for the state of New Jersey (the AG) will “regulate the receipt and acceptance by prescribers of anything of value from pharmaceutical manufacturers.”
The arrival of a new year marks the beginning of the annual proxy season. And this year, shareholders can expect to see a lot more climate change disclosure in 2017 corporate financials.
This year brought us very significant changes in patent jurisprudence from the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit affecting Chemical & Life Sciences patent practice.
In a recent European Court of Justice Ruling, the court held that a test taker’s answers and an examiner’s comments with regard to those answers are personal data, while valuable proprietary test questions are not.
Recently, the FDA announced that it does not intend to enforce certain provisions in four of the rules that implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
Late last week, the New Jersey federal court dismissed with prejudice a case where a customer challenged under the antitrust laws a car manufacturer’s requirement that he agree not to export a Jaguar Land Rover shortly after buying it.
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a case that could fundamentally reshape the rules concerning collection of sales tax on out-of-state sales.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a proposed rule soliciting recommendations for new Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbors, modifications to existing safe harbors, and new OIG Special Fraud Alerts.
In late December 2017, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the findings of a report titled "Potential Misclassifications Reported by Drug Manufacturers May Have Led to $1 Billion in Lost Medicaid Rebates."
This is one survey request you might want to open. This week, the US Department of Transportation published several notices for public comment involving automated cars, trucks, buses, and light rail.
Right before the holidays, President Trump and his Administration took significant steps toward using economic sanctions to tackle international human rights abuses and corruption.
Automakers have tasted tech and they are ready for their next course. The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance recently announced a new venture capital fund, named Alliance Ventures, that will be dedicated to startup technology investment.
On January 4, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the rescission of an Obama-era Department of Justice guidance known as the “Cole Memo” that provided guidelines for the federal enforcement of state-compliant marijuana possession and regulation of marijuana production.
The name’s Fisker, Henrik Fisker. The Los Angeles-based Danish expat known for designing the Aston Martin DB9, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the BMW Z8, and many more iconic cars is staging a comeback in the electric car industry.
The Department of Justice recently published its annual False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries statistics for Fiscal Year 2017, reporting $3.7 billion in FCA settlements and judgments in FY 2017.