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You are the Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Pharmaceutical Company ABC. For years, you have been responding to multiple subpoenas from the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in your District. You have produced hundreds of thousands of documents in response. You have held multiple meetings with Assistant U.S. Attorneys and representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), during which the government has asserted that it is investigating whether ABC has been defrauding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Lessons from the Insider Trading Prohibition Act After Its Likely Demise In the Senate
By Telemachus P. Kasulis
For a moment there, it really looked like it was going to happen. After a long and winding road, insider trading reform had reached the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote. The Insider Trading Prohibition Act (ITPA) had support on both sides of the aisle and on Dec. 5, 2019, the House voted to pass the ITPA. Then the bill went to the Senate and vanished. We should take this opportunity to learn what lessons we can from the successes and failures of the ITPA as a bill with an eye toward fashioning the best possible legislation next time — whenever that may be.
An Ounce of Prevention: Preparing for CARES Act Fraud Investigations
By Nekia Hackworth Jones
The government appears to be fulfilling its commitment to rooting out PPP fraud, even when the amount at issue falls below the $2 million threshold. No matter the size of the loan, a company that obtained PPP funds is not immune from a possible government investigation or audit. Borrowers have already started to submit loan forgiveness applications, and many more will be submitted in the weeks ahead, and both lenders and the government will be scouring these submissions for red flags.
Survey Says: Tips On Getting Over the Daubert Hurdle
By Rebecca Kirk Fair, Peter Hess and Vendela Fehrm
This article draws on a review of over 300 U.S. court rulings in cases involving surveys, including over 150 Daubert motions, and provides suggestions for getting survey evidence admitted for consideration in court. Our recommendations fall under two broad categories: relevance and reliability.
By Scott Pink and John Dermody
COVID-19 Contact Tracing v. Protecting Personal Privacy
As states roll back stay-at-home orders, contact tracing has quickly emerged as an essential tool to manage the spread of the coronavirus and allow the country to return to work safely. But innovative contact tracing methods raise a host of privacy concerns, forcing a reckoning with how we balance privacy and public health.
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