A California-based mobile imaging company agreed to pay at least $8.3 million to resolve allegations it paid above-market fees to cardiologists for patient referrals.
Mobile PET Scan Provider to Pay $8.33 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims Act Violations Based on Unlawful Kickbacks to Medical Practices
The Justice Department launched its ninth lawsuit in a national campaign to block states from offering in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented immigrants, arguing the benefits discriminate against U.S. citizens.
The Justice Department Files Complaint Challenging New Jersey Laws Providing In-State Tuition and Financial Assistance for Illegal Aliens
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division opened investigations into 36 Illinois school districts to determine if they are teaching sexual orientation and gender ideology content without notifying parents of their right to opt out.
Justice Department Launches Investigations Concerning Gender Ideology in Pre-K-12 Schools in 36 Illinois School Districts
A Missouri property owner spent years allegedly demanding sex from female renters in exchange for housing benefits, federal authorities said.
Justice Department Secures Settlement in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Springfield, Missouri Landlord
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled that Arizona's statewide voter registration list is not the kind of document Congress required states to preserve — and hand over — under a 1960 civil rights law.
United States of America v. B&G Trading LLC et al
A Connecticut federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the Bureau of Prisons of terminating a union contract covering roughly 30,000 members in retaliation for the union's opposition to Trump administration budget cuts.
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., Defendants.
The ruling is the latest in a string of defeats for the Justice Department's nationwide campaign to force states to hand over their statewide voter registration databases under a 1960 civil rights law.
United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Adrian Fontes, Defendant.
The drugmaker, which pleaded guilty to federal fraud and kickback charges in 2020, was ordered to pay a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling more than $5 billion.
Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma Sentenced for Fraud and Kickback Conspiracies
A federal grand jury charged James Comey with two criminal counts after he posted an image reading "86 47" on Instagram last year.
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Threats to Harm President Trump
A federal magistrate judge found that more than 90% of transgender women in Oregon state prisons are housed in men's facilities by default — and that the state knew it was putting them at serious risk.
S.D. et al v. Rees et al
A Manhattan federal judge denied cross-motions to exclude expert testimony in the securities fraud prosecution of former Western Asset Management Chief Investment Officer S. Kenneth Leech II, but ordered both sides to agree on trial...
The United States of America et al v. The Children's Village Inc.
A Massachusetts federal judge kept alive a national bank's breach-of-contract and fraudulent-concealment claims against its loan-participation partner, while dismissing two other fraud counts, in a dispute over alleged concealment of...
U.S. Bank National Association v. Pittman et al
A Manhattan federal judge denied cross-motions to exclude expert testimony in the securities and commodities fraud prosecution of S. Kenneth Leech II, ruling that none of the six proposed experts crossed the threshold for exclusion under...
United States of America v. Town of Beekman
A six-year dispute over three days of port closures during the pandemic ends with a federal appeals court upholding the agency's freight-fluidity framework for evaluating carrier fees.
Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) Corp. v. FMC
A Manhattan federal judge has denied cross-motions to exclude six expert witnesses in the securities and commodities fraud prosecution of S. Kenneth Leech, II, the former Chief Investment Officer of Western Asset Management Company...
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. S. KENNETH LEECH, II, Defendant.
A Manhattan federal judge has denied cross-motions to exclude expert testimony in a complex financial fraud prosecution, allowing all six competing statistical experts—four from the government and two from the defense—to testify in a...
United States of America v. Zahabian et al
A Washington federal court has denied the Department of Justice’s motion to alter or amend its judgment in a dispute over administrative subpoenas for Seattle Children's Hospital records, reinforcing the finding that the government’s...
IN RE SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM NO. 25-1431-016
Lopez Martinez v. Bondi
The Western District of Washington has denied the Department of Justice’s motion to alter or amend its judgment in a dispute over administrative subpoenas issued to Seattle Children’s Hospital for patient records related to...
Seattle Children's Hospital et al v. United States Department of Justice
Antitrust Division Approves Department of Energy Defense Production Act Consortium’s Updated Voluntary Agreement and Plans of Action
Betancourt-Colon et al v. City of San Juan
The Justice Department’s Scam Center Strike Force announced coordinated enforcement actions targeting transnational criminal organizations operating fraud compounds in Southeast Asia, including the unsealing of criminal complaints...
Scam Center Strike Force Takes Major Actions Against Southeast Asian Scam Centers Targeting Americans
Justice Department Places FDA-Approved Marijuana Products and Products Containing Marijuana Subject to a Qualifying State-issued License in Schedule III, Strengthening Medical Research While Maintaining Strict Federal Controls
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a suit by infant sleep product maker Keezio Group, LLC against the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), ruling that a CPSC press release warning consumers about...
KEEZIO GROUP, LLC, Plaintiff, v. U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISION, et al., Defendants.
The Justice Department has filed a civil forfeiture action targeting a Beverly Hills mansion it says was purchased and renovated with proceeds from a scheme to defraud the Pentagon and bribe a senior Kurdish military official.
Justice Department Seeks to Forfeit Beverly Hills Mansion Purchased with Proceeds of Scheme to Defraud U.S. Military and Bribe an Iraqi Official
A federal magistrate judge denied the government's eve-of-trial motion to depose Agri Stats about settlements it reached in three related private antitrust MDLs, ruling the request was both untimely and procedurally defective.
United States of America v. Agri Stats, Inc.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a challenge by AT&T and Verizon to the constitutionality of Federal Communications Commission fines totaling more than $100 million, with justices appearing skeptical of the...
Court appears skeptical of right to jury trial in FCC proceedings
A federal grand jury has charged the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, alleging the civil-rights nonprofit secretly funneled more than...
Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
The Ninth Circuit vacated Shahriyar Bolandian’s insider trading conviction and ordered a new trial after finding that the district court failed to properly investigate a juror who expressed uncertainty about his impartiality.
United States v. Bolandian
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the civil forfeiture of over 700,000 barrels of crude oil seized from two tankers in the Mediterranean Sea, holding that the United States adequately pleaded its claim against a Turkish commodities trading company.
United States v. All Petroleum-Product Cargo Onboard the M/T Arina
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority and the District of Columbia for Clean Water Act violations stemming from the collapse of the Potomac Interceptor, which released...
Justice Department Files Clean Water Act Complaint Against DC Water for Potomac Interceptor Failure
The Tenth Circuit denied Frontier Airlines' petition for review of a final order by the Transportation Security Administration upholding a liability of $5,377,584.15 for unpaid security service fees. The dispute centered on whether the...
Frontier Airlines v. Department of Homeland Security
The Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara suggest deep skepticism toward the Trump administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship by redefining the 14th Amendment’s “subject to the jurisdiction” clause.
Why the Supreme Court’s birthright-citizenship decision may depend on the meaning of “domicile”
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office announced charges against 21 defendants accused of conspiring to bill Medi-Cal approximately $267 million for hospice services that prosecutors say were never rendered, with allegations...
The Justice Department has entered into a voluntary settlement agreement with the Concord-Carlisle, Massachusetts School District to address a pattern of antisemitic harassment of students by their peers. The agreement resolves a federal...
The Justice Department unsealed indictments against a Georgia man and a UK-Nigeria resident, charging them with orchestrating a five-year scheme to defraud the IRS of more than $100 million by filing over 300 false tax returns using...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California on Friday issued a preliminary injunction requiring Nexstar Media Group to preserve TEGNA Inc. as a separate entity pending trial, finding DIRECTV and eight states are likely to...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction halting Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of TEGNA Inc., finding that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the deal...
In Re: Nexstar-TEGNA Merger Litigation
U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso granted a preliminary injunction in Rosado v. Bondi, holding that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin likely violated the First Amendment by coercing...
Rosado et al v. Bondi et al
A federal judge in New Hampshire held that genuine factual disputes preclude summary judgment on claims that the state's systemic failure to deliver authorized home and community-based services places disabled Medicaid waiver...
Fitzmorris v. NH Department of Health and Human Services, Commissioner
A former U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant has pleaded guilty to a nine-year conspiracy that the Justice Department says inflated information technology contracts for Pacific Air Forces installations by at least $37 million, with proceeds...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Justice on April 15 rescinded a 2023 joint statement that had warned lenders considering borrowers' immigration status could run afoul of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act...
The Justice Department filed a civil antitrust suit against New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Thursday, alleging the system violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act by imposing contract terms that prevent insurers from offering budget...
Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang were sentenced in the District of Massachusetts to a combined 200 months in prison for running a laptop-farm operation that placed North Korean IT workers on the payrolls of more than 100 U.S. companies using...
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a civil antitrust suit against The New York and Presbyterian Hospital on March 26, alleging that its contracts with...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that multistate negotiations have reached an agreement in principle requiring grocery chain Albertsons to pay up to $773,787,782.93 to address its role in the opioid epidemic.
A jury found Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary liable for violating federal and state antitrust laws after a five-week trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and 33 other state attorneys general, the New York...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction Friday blocking the proposed merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. while litigation brought by a coalition of eight state attorneys...
The Supreme Court will decide whether the Federal Communications Commission can impose multimillion-dollar fines on telecommunications carriers in administrative proceedings without providing a jury trial, a question that splits the...