Yesterday, Washington Legal Foundation held its annual “High Court Halftime” briefing program to look back on some decisions from the Supreme Court’s October 2011 term and to preview upcoming arguments. The video of this program is available here for on-demand viewing. Hosted by WLF advisory board chairman, The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, and headlined by veteran [...]
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Appellate Experts Assess Supreme Court at Mid-term Point
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Health Care, Regulation of Free Enterprise, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged crime, environment, Media Nosh, Supreme Court on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
WLF Web Seminar Program Delved Into Strict Vicarious Liability for Managers
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Health Care, tagged crime, DOJ, FDA, off-label, Web Seminar on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, a video of WLF’s October 26 Web Seminar program, Liability & Exclusion Without Intent: Managing to Survive Under the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine, is now available for your on-demand viewing. The speakers, Mark Calloway and Brian Stimson of Alston & Bird, prepared a PowerPoint presentation to go along with their [...]
WLF Web Seminar Program Tomorrow
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Health Care, tagged crime, FDA, Web Seminar on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Newspaper’s “Sunday Reflections” Column Authored by WLF Chairman
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Environmental Law & Regulation, tagged abusive litigation, crime, DOJ, EPA on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday Reflection: Judge orders EPA to pay up for malicious prosecution Last Friday, after five years of litigation, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered the U.S. government to pay $1.7 million in damages for maliciously prosecuting Hubert Vidrine, a used-oil processing plant manager. The facts of the case, in which the Washington Legal Foundation [...]
Judge Awards WLF Client $1.7 Million for EPA’s Malicious Environmental Prosecution
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Environmental Law & Regulation, tagged abusive litigation, crime, DOJ, EPA on October 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
In a case worthy of daytime television, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ordered on Friday, September 30, that the United States pay $1.7 million to Hubert P. Vidrine, a client of the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF). WLF worked closely with Mr. Vidrine’s local trial counsel, Gary Cornwell, to bring a [...]
DOJ’s Improved Coordination = More Antitrust + FCPA Investigations
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, tagged antitrust, crime, DOJ, FCPA on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Guest Commentary Michael Volkov, Mayer Brown LLP Cross-posted with permission from White Collar Defense and Compliance Some may wonder why my blog, White Collar Defense and Compliance, regularly reports on the Justice Department’s criminal antitrust record and trends. For white-collar practitioners, the FCPA and criminal antitrust prosecutions regularly lead to opportunities to represent companies and/or officers. Apart [...]
Update: HHS Reverses Course, Declines to Exclude Drug Co. CEO
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Health Care, tagged crime, DOJ, FDA on August 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We noted a few weeks ago impending action by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to exclude Forest Labs CEO Howard Solomon from government contracts for his company’s plea of guilty to federal law violations. Mr. Solomon hadn’t been charged with any crime nor did he personally plead guilty to [...]
Governor Rick Perry Puts “Off-label” Medical Therapy on Stage
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Health Care, tagged crime, FDA, First Amendment, off-label on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF’s contributor page Texas Governor Rick Perry is the latest beneficiary of so-called off-label medical therapy. Earlier this week, USA Today reported that Perry’s back surgery last month involved a stem cell therapy that is currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) solely for bone marrow transplants. The procedure [...]
Video of WLF Web Seminar Program on Consent Decrees
Posted in Regulation of Free Enterprise, tagged crime, DOJ, SEC, Web Seminar on August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Someone to Watch Over Me: Legal & Compliance Challenges Posed by Antitrust Agencies’ Consent Decrees, WLF’s latest Web Seminar program, is now available as an on-demand archived video file. The program featured Christine Wilson and Bilal Sayyed, partners at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Criminalization of Free Enterprise Spotlighted in Two Major Newspapers Over Weekend
Posted in Criminalization of Free Enterprise, tagged crime, DOJ on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The federal government’s pursuit of criminal sanctions against businesses and their managers and employees received high-profile coverage this weekend in two large-circulation daily newspapers. Reporters Gary Fields and John Emshwiller authored a front-page story in the Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal, As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared (subscription required). Their story focused on [...]
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