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News & Analysis as of May 23, 2013

Airline Management Newsletter - March 2013

by Lilia Bell, Linda Cavanna-Wilk, Doug Hall, Sarah Pierce Wimberly | FordHarrison on 3/29/2013

In This Issue: - NMB Announces Voting Procedures Changes - Second Circuit Weighs In On AIR21 Burden-Shifting Framework - DOL Issues Final FMLA Crewmember Regulations ..Flight Crew Eligibility Standards ...more

Sending the Privilege Away: Attorney-Client E-Mails in the Corporate Setting

by Amy Garrigues, Bryan Rohm, Mark A. Rush, Joseph Valenti | K&L Gates LLP on 1/8/2013

In a pending False Claims Act (“FCA”) case involving allegations of noncompliance with the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, the United States District Court for the Middle District of...more

Quinn Emanuel D.C. Litigation in Brief -- Spring 2012

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 5/22/2012

In This Issue: The Supreme Court Confronts Controversies Overseas, But Will Congress Have the Final Word? Cover; When in Rome...(U.S Law Still Applies): Lessons of Wal-Mart, News Corp. & the Foreign Corrupt Practices...more

Draft guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/93) published - Bargate Murray Review

by PHILIP HENSON on 4/1/2011

Draft guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/93) published The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (“BIS”) has published draft guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 SI 2010/93, which...more

Ninth Circuit Weakens Rule 9(b) In False Claims Act Litigation

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/16/2010

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently weakened the impact of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) in False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases. The FCA allows whistleblowers (called “relators”) to bring lawsuits...more