In Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), the Supreme Court held that attorneys must advise their noncitizen clients of the risk of deportation arising from criminal conviction, and that the failure to do so violates the...more
On June 16, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in United States ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., that (i) under the False Claims Act, the government may move to dismiss a False Claims Act (“FCA”) action...more
On June 1, 2023, the United States Supreme Court decided two consolidated cases, United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. and United States ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, 589 U.S. ___ (2023), holding that a defendant’s...more
The United States Supreme Court (Alito, J.) issued a unanimous decision today affirming the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Salman v. United States, an insider trading case concerning tippee liability. The Court held that the...more
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided a major insider trading case, Salman v. United States, 15-628. In Salman, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its prior ruling in Dirks v. SEC and held that a jury could infer that a tipper...more
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court decided Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar et al., holding that the so-called “implied certification” theory is viable under the False Claims Act...more
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On February 25, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Yates v. United States.1 This case involved the interpretation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1519, a statute that was added as part of the...more
On January 21, 2015, the Supreme Court decided a narrow but important issue of appellate jurisdiction in cases that have been consolidated for pretrial proceedings by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. A...more
On January 21, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a highly anticipated decision in a LIBOR-based antitrust class action suit allowing a plaintiff to immediately take a direct appeal from an order dismissing...more