Mediation is quickly becoming an even more important form of adjudication as courts have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the second surge in reported cases, courts across the nation have been...more
Irving v. California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, No. B243417 (September 12, 2014): The California Court of Appeal recently held that a former employee was not entitled to unemployment insurance benefits after being...more
Hell hath no fury like a regulator (allegedly) lied to. This week, the SEC brought civil charges, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York brought criminal charges, against a broker-dealer and its founder...more
We all have “fond” memories of lying as a child. Our backs were against the wall, and we were forced to admit we had done something wrong. Our parents almost expected us to lie about our bad behavior. In the end, we did...more
On April 1, 2014, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin issued a press release accusing Adroit Films of fraud. Manchin had agreed to be interviewed by the media company for a documentary about the Upper Big Branch mine disaster,...more
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund (13-435), an appeal in which Omnicare has asked the Court to clarify the meaning of...more
Section 753 of the Dodd-Frank Act added a new section to the Commodity Exchange Act to make it unlawful “for any person to make any false or misleading statement of a material fact to the Commission … or to omit to state in...more
According to a recent case, a witness in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigation could be similarly condemned to oblivion – or at least enforcement action and a hefty fine – for giving false testimony,...more
The SEC is taking a number of bold steps to promote the importance of compliance. The SEC already offers companies meaningful compliance carrots as part of its cooperation program, and other enforcement initiatives including...more
In one of the most high-profile cases of its time, Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice as a result of her intentional misrepresentation to Securities and Exchange Commission and FBI investigators regarding the...more
Sometimes, cases that seem like a no-brainer are anything but. Just ask the Town of Stratford which finally won an appeal to the Connecticut Appellate Court. The case, Stratford v. American Federation of State, County...more