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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 43 - New Horizons: Impact of Recent Appellate Circuit Rulings on White-Collar Criminal Defense Law
Prelude to the Business Court and 15th Court of Appeals: More Questions Than Answers | Tyler Talbert | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Exploring Procedural Justice | Judge Steve Leben | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Focus Groups as a Trial-Preparation Tool | Elizabeth Larrick | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Tips for Persuasive Legal Writing | Luther Munford | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Winning Cases on Legal Issues Before and During Trial | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Navigating Federal Tort Claims on a National Scale | Tom Jacob | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Why Judges Should Take the Legal Accountability Project Pledge | Judge Doug Nazarian & Aliza Shatzman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Tackling Bullying in the Legal Profession | Scott Stolley | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
How Lawyers Should Approach Implementing AI into Their Practices | Tim Armstrong | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Emerging Ethical Issues For Lawyers Using AI | Derek Bauman | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
A Longtime Trial Judge’s View from the Appellate Bench | Justice Gisela Triana | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Inside the Fourth Court of Appeals’ Clerk’s Office | Michael Cruz | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Supersedeas and Other Recent Rule Changes | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Business Courts and Other Highlights of the 88th Texas Legislature | Jerry Bullard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Don’t California My Texas! | Tim Kowal & Jeff Lewis | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Checking in On the 88th Texas Legislature | Jerry Bullard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Jury Charges and Oral Argument | David Keltner | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Legal Writing for the New Generation | Chad Baruch | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
It has been just over a year since the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a challenge to California’s controversial Proposition 12, which prohibits the sale of certain meat products within the state unless the animals were raised...more
The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision last week in Esteras v. United States restricted the factors lower courts may consider in imposing prison sentences following supervised release revocations. Those awaiting the...more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit issued a highly anticipated ruling interpreting the relationship between the False Claims Act ("FCA") and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"), holding...more
On February 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its opinion in United States v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., finding that, in Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) cases, the government must...more
Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited decision in United States v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals with significant implications for health care companies facing allegations of violations of the...more
On February 18, 2025, in a closely watched decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in United States v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., No. 23-2086, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 3667 (1st Cir. Feb. 18, 2025)...more
On Feb. 18, in U.S. v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the First Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Sixth Circuit and the Eighth Circuit in holding that, for purposes of establishing that a claim for payment of items or services...more
On February 9, DOJ filed an emergency motion seeking to dissolve, modify or clarify a temporary restraining order issued by the U.S. SDNY, which prohibited certain political appointees and DOGE members from accessing the...more
As we anticipated in our October 17, 2024, blog, both the Government and the Relator have appealed the district court’s decision in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC, et al. (Zafirov), the first case to...more
In United States v. Nasri, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. government must satisfy Due Process requirements before it can seek civil forfeiture of assets located abroad. The 2-1 split panel...more
As reported by Holland & Knight on Dec. 27, 2024, companies and individuals impacted by the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA) reasonably could have believed there was a respite from the "off again, on again, off again"...more
On October 22, 2024, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Southern District of New York’s decision denying the motion of Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. (“Halkbank”), a commercial bank that is majority owned by the...more
From circuit courts to the Supreme Court, rulings from appellate courts have turned some tried-and-true principles of law on their head in 2024. How have the decisions affected the practice of white-collar criminal defense...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, applying Ohio law, has held that a warranty exclusion barred coverage for a claim arising from circumstances that were not disclosed in an insured’s application for...more
On August 1, 2022, the California Court of Appeals issued an opinion that will put a stop to website accessibility discrimination cases against online-only businesses brought pursuant to the state’s Unruh Act. The case,...more
A few weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit answered a critical inquiry in the False Claims Act (“FCA”) context: does a defendant violate the FCA when it’s reading of the regulation is objectionably...more
City of Chicago v. Fulton, Case No. 19–357 (2021). The mere retention of estate property after the filing of a bankruptcy petition does not violate the automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code. ...more
A basic tenet of bankruptcy law, premised on the legal separateness of a debtor prior to filing for bankruptcy and the estate created upon a bankruptcy filing, is that prepetition debts are generally treated differently than...more
Third Circuit Holds that False Claims Act First-to-File Bar is Not Jurisdictional - On September 1, 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the False Claims Act (FCA) first-to-file bar, 31 U.S.C. §...more
In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary...more
In the midst of the upheaval caused by social distancing and related efforts to minimize and contain COVID-19-related risks, we have been monitoring steps taken by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices...more