Criminal Prosecution, Willful Violations

Northern District Of California Finds Willful Violation Of Injunction By Apple, Orders Enforcement and Refers Matter For Criminal...

A&O Shearman on 5/8/2025

On April 30, 2025, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion by Epic Games, Inc. to enforce a 2021 injunction against Apple Inc., finding that a...more

Ninth Circuit Applies Willful Violation of Law Exclusion in Professional Liability Policy To Preclude Coverage for Wrongful Death...

Carlton Fields on 12/7/2020

In National Fire & Marine Insurance Company v. Hampton, No. 19-17235 (9th Cir. Oct. 21, 2020), the Ninth Circuit held that a doctor’s guilty plea to the unlawful distribution of a controlled substance barred insurance...more

Doctor’s Guilty Plea Establishes Basis for “Willful Violation” Exclusion from Coverage in Wrongful Death Case

Wiley Rein LLP on 11/12/2020

Applying Nevada law, the Ninth Circuit has held that a professional liability insurer did not have a duty to defend or indemnify a doctor for a wrongful death action because the doctor’s guilty plea triggered an exclusion for...more

Could New Legislation on Insider Trading be on its Way?

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 2/26/2020

The SEC and DOJ have long prioritized insider trading prosecutions. Moreover, insider trading cases frequently involve parallel investigations in which the SEC and DOJ share information and coordinate efforts to collect...more

Ignorance of OSHA Requirements Does Not Preclude Willful Violation

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/11/2018

Employers found to have committed repeat or willful violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards are subject to citation penalties of 10 times those for ordinary violations, and in some cases...more

One of Our Employees Died at Work – Am I Going to Jail?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/3/2017

Most know that lawsuits against an employer based on an employee’s workplace injury are barred by the applicable State’s Worker’s Compensation Act. However, did you know that in some circumstances, an employer may be...more

Criminal Conviction Upheld for Modifying Videogame Console

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/19/2014

USA v. Reichert - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently affirmed a defendant’s criminal conviction under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for trafficking technology that modifies technological...more

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