In United States v. Martoma
,a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a key holding of its previous decision in United States v. Newman and significantly loosene...
On June 26, 2017, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
split down the middle
over whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appointment of Administrative ...
On June 5, 2017, the Supreme Court decided Kokesh v. SEC, and unanimously held that the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462—which governs any “action, suit or proce...
On April 18, 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kokesh v. SEC to resolve a circuit split on the issue of whether the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462—wh...
Today, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Somers v. Digital Realty Trust Inc., No. 15-17352 (9th Cir. Mar. 8, 2017), deciding that Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-retaliation provision “sho...
The Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Criminal Division (the “Fraud Section”) recently published an Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (the “Evalu...
On January 17, 2017, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that British multinational manufacturer Rolls-Royce plc (“Rolls-Royce” or the “Company”) had entered into a De...
On January 13, 2017, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Kokesh v. SEC to resolve a circuit split on the issue of whether the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462—w...
The Tenth and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal have come to opposite conclusions in response to constitutional challenges to the Securities Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appoin...
In late December 2016, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (“Teva”), the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical manufacturer, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA?...
