Navigating Civil Standing Requirements for Defense Success — RICO Report Podcast
Supreme Court to Settle Circuit Split Regarding RICO Damages Arising From Personal Injuries — RICO Report Podcast
RICO Vicarious Liability — RICO Report Podcast
RICO Damages — RICO Report Podcast
AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - Breaking Down Ongoing Litigation Against Trump and Colorado’s Primary Ballot
RICO Lawsuit Against Shein — RICO Report Podcast
RICO and Foreign Arbitration Enforcement - RICO Report Podcast
State RICO Statutes - RICO Report Podcast
Unlawful Debt Collection Claims - RICO Report Podcast
Mail and Wire Fraud Claims - RICO Report Podcast
Defining the RICO Racketeering Element - RICO Report Podcast
The “Pattern” of Racketeering Activity - Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The "Pattern" of Racketeering Activity - RICO Report Podcast
Understanding the RICO Enterprise Requirement - RICO Report Podcast
The Intersection of RICO, Trade Secrets, and the Defend Trade Secrets Act - RICO Report Podcast
RICO Conduct (18 U.S.C. §§ 1962(a-d)) - RICO Report Podcast
The Justice Insiders: FIFA Corruption Trial – Will the Feds Score Another Goal?
Second Circuit Decision Potentially Broadens RICO Proximate Cause Element - RICO Report Podcast
Introduction to RICO: What You Need to Know - RICO Report Podcast
Anatomy of a Successful Motion to Dismiss in RICO Case
Join Troutman Pepper White Collar and Litigation Partner Cal Stein for a special podcast series, discussing the legal landscape surrounding the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In this installment,...more
Celsius pushes back on FTX customer payback plan | Bloomberg Law - The Celsius administrator and liquidators of Three Arrows Capital objected to FTX's Chapter 11 plan, arguing it aims to compensate people who had accounts...more
The widespread and debilitating impacts of the recent faulty Crowdstrike® software update has caused businesses to evaluate processes and examine potential claims and defenses related to the deleterious commercial impacts of...more
On June 18, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California entered an order granting plaintiffs’ motion for entry of final judgment against a large for-profit educational institution that has since gone...more
Supreme Court to Resolve Availability of RICO Claims to Personal Injury Plaintiffs - On April 29, 2024, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn, No. 23-365, 2024 WL 1839091 (U.S. Apr. 29,...more
In a recent unpublished memorandum opinion in a putative class action, Carpenter et al. v. Opportunity Financial, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an arbitration clause in an agreement governing...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in four cases: Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn, No. 23-365: This case involves interpretation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act...more
“This case (and its many state-court siblings) has a tortured history,” is the opening line in Judge Subramanian’s decision. The “siblings” are five or so related lawsuits filed in New York State Supreme Court beginning in...more
A federal court in California recently granted partial summary judgment in favor of a distributor of wine corks for breach of an exclusivity provision following the supplier’s sale of certain corks in the United States. M.A....more
Defendant and his co-conspirators firebombed an informant’s house and killed several individuals. Six weeks into their trial on related charges, the Government disclosed that one of the defense attorneys previously worked as...more
In the House, lawmakers continue to make progress on the Clarity for Stablecoins Act (H.R. 4766). On March 19, at a press event hosted by Punchbowl News on the policy landscape for digital payments, outgoing House Financial...more
On February 21, the Minnesota Attorney General settled an action against executives of a Montana-based tribal lender for alleged predatory lending practices. In its complaint, filed in October 2023, the AG alleged the company...more
On June 22, 2023, in Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al., the United States Supreme Court held that the determination of whether a nonresident plaintiff suffered a domestic injury for...more
On February 1, 2024, Senior United States District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado denied Mackie A. Barch (Mackie) and Trellis Holdings Maryland, Inc. (Trellis and...more
On January 29, a Missouri-based bank and its Kansas-based fintech loan servicer filed a joint motion to dismiss a purported class action filed against them alleging violations of the Georgia Installment Loan Act (GILA) and...more
Recently, Lead Bank and its loan servicer Hyphen, LLC, an online lending platform operating Helix Financial, filed a motion to dismiss a purported class action alleging violations of the Georgia Installment Loan Act (GILA)...more
Yet another new horizon looms for PFAS litigation. Numerous PFAS claims, like those involving deceptive trade practices due to PFAS in food packaging, seldom withstand a motion to dismiss, but the emergence of a novel...more
In this episode, Jeff Jacobovitz, AGG trial attorney, adjunct law professor at AU-WCL (Criminal Antitrust), and chair of the firm’s Antitrust group, discusses the latest updates in the ongoing litigation against former...more
Amazon to invest in Diamond Sports as part of bankruptcy deal | ABC News - Diamond Sports has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since it filed for protection last March with debt of $8.67 billion. Amazon will partner...more
The PTAB requires that all petitioners in IPR and PGR proceedings disclose the real party(ies)-in-interest. While that might seem like a mere formality, a false disclosure can lead to very harsh consequences....more
Earlier this month, in Fama v. Opportunity Financial LLC, a Magistrate Judge of the federal district court for the Western District of Washington held that the arbitration provision in OppFi’s installment loan agreement is...more