The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the long-awaited issue of whether corporations can be liable under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), enacted by the First Congress more than 225 years ago.
September 02, 2017Lanier Saperstein and Carol Lee
A look at a case in which the first trader charged and convicted under Dodd-Frank's anti-"spoofing" provision lost his appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
September 02, 2017ljnstaff | Law Journal NewslettersAnalysis of a case in which a German national admitted to taking part in a 2001 to 2004 scheme to pay roughly $3 million in bribes to Haitian officials in return for favorable treatment from Teleco, a state-owned telecommunications company.
September 02, 2017ljnstaff | Law Journal NewslettersThe Supreme Court as a whole appears aligned and motivated to review critically federal and state asset forfeiture procedures. In addition, Attorney General Sessions last month restored the federal forfeiture of property seized by state and local law enforcement ("federal adoptions"), but with certain additional safeguards.
August 01, 2017Edmund W. SearbyA look at a recent case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled to narrow the scope of criminal asset forfeiture.
August 01, 2017ljnstaffAnalysis of a case involving Social Security disability fraud.
August 01, 2017ljnstaffAnalysis of a case in which a jury in New York convicted the former Minister of Mines and Geology of the Republic of Guinea, Mahmoud Thiam, on one count of transacting in criminally derived property and one count of money laundering in the amount of $8.5 million.
July 02, 2017ljnstaff | Law Journal NewslettersAnalysis of a case in which a jury in New York convicted the former Minister of Mines and Geology of the Republic of Guinea, Mahmoud Thiam, on one count of transacting in criminally derived property and one count of money laundering in the amount of $8.5 million.
July 02, 2017Monique Agnes O. LadejiThis article provides critical background on DOJ policy and practice, and highlights some of the steps corporate counsel can take during leniency or plea negotiations to secure non-prosecution protection for the company's employees as part of any antitrust corporate disposition.
July 01, 2017Marc SiegelDid you know that certain employment practices could violate antitrust law? This is the message to be gleaned from joint guidance recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division
July 01, 2017Robert G. Brody and Alexander Friedman
