A multistate coalition led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a verdict in New York federal court holding Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its subsidiary Ticketmaster LLC liable for monopolizing markets in...
A multistate jury verdict holds Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for antitrust violations, with a remedies phase still ahead.
The bureau rewrote its January 2025 enforcement action against the UK-based money-transfer company, cutting the civil fine by roughly 98 percent and rescinding related guidance.
A multistate coalition led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a verdict in New York federal court holding Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its subsidiary Ticketmaster LLC liable for monopolizing markets in the ticketing and live entertainment in...
The Eleventh Circuit vacated a district court's ruling that Atlanta's 1982 sign ordinance was unconstitutional, holding that the provision restricting off-site signs is content-neutral under the First Amendment. The decision vacates a lower court order that...
The D.C. Circuit upheld the Transportation Security Administration's decision to maintain Saad bin Khalid on the No Fly List, rejecting his constitutional and statutory challenges to the listing and the agency's redress process.
A relator who accused a Kentucky hospital system of billing Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary kidney dialysis and vascular procedures could not escape the False Claims Act's public-disclosure bar, the Sixth Circuit held, because a nearly identical qui t...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and FirstCash, Inc. resolved the agency's November 2021 lawsuit alleging the Fort Worth-based pawnshop operator and its nineteen subsidiaries made loans to active-duty servicemembers at rates above the Military Lendi...
The Ninth Circuit vacated summary judgment for PeaceHealth Inc. in a False Claims Act retaliation suit brought by Dr. Jonathan Adelstein, holding that a physician's internal complaints about a colleague's billing practices could qualify as protected activit...
The bureau rewrote its January 2025 enforcement action against the UK-based money-transfer company, cutting the civil fine by roughly 98 percent and rescinding related guidance.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a settlement with FirstCash, Inc. and nineteen subsidiaries, resolving a lawsuit alleging the national pawnshop operator charged military borrowers interest rates above the legal cap and buried unlawful terms...
The two agencies say the withdrawn joint statement conflicted with ECOA's express text and created unnecessary compliance burdens for lenders evaluating noncitizen borrowers.
A multistate jury verdict holds Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for antitrust violations, with a remedies phase still ahead.
Alan Hayward James, a former active-duty Master Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, pleaded guilty to a multi-year conspiracy to rig bids and defraud the U.S. government, inflating the cost of information technology contracts for the U.S. Pacific Air Forces by...
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission launched a joint public inquiry regarding potential additional guidance on collaborations among competitors, building on the 2000 guidelines that were withdrawn in December 2024.
A federal appeals court ruled that a physician's nonrenewal of contract can constitute False Claims Act retaliation even when the employer had full discretion over renewal.
A Maryland federal judge held that a federal veterinarian's complaint about a contractor employee's workplace conduct was within the scope of her employment, substituting the United States as defendant and extinguishing the contractor's defamation and torti...
The SEC has charged grain-trading giant Archer-Daniels-Midland and three former executives with fraudulently inflating the performance of ADM's Nutrition business segment — a unit the company had promoted to investors as a key growth driver.