On November 28, 2017, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments (here) in Digital Realty Trust v. Sommers, a case that will determine whether employees who report suspected violations of …
J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC (“J.P. Morgan”) was recently fined $1.25 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) for how the securities firm handled criminal background checks. In particular, J.P. Morgan …
Yellowstone injunctions got their name from First National Stores, Inc. v. Yellowstone Shopping Center, Inc., 21 N.Y.2d 630, 290 N.Y.S.2d 721 (1968). A commercial tenant that is faced with the …
On November 3, 2017, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (“Thrivent”) obtained a preliminary injunction that temporarily restrains the Department of Labor (the “Department” or the “DOL”) from enforcing an anti-arbitration provision …
According to a report issued jointly by the New York University Pollack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) filed 33% …
Following months of hinting that the Department of Justice (“DOJ” or “Department”) would change its qui tam policies, Michael Granston (“Granston”), Director of the Civil Fraud Section, announced that the …
During the past year, Wells Fargo has faced a number of scandals. In addition to the bank account scandal (here) in which millions of accounts were set up under customers’ …
Many leases provide for a tenant’s option to purchase the subject real property. The recent case of Blackburn Food Corp., et. al. v. Ardi, Inc., et. al., (Sup. Ct. Suffolk …
It has been some time since this Blog has written about the False Claims Act (“FCA”). In today’s post, this Blog looks at the Seventh Circuit’s recent embrace of the …
On November 2, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) announced (here) that it had charged Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (“Osiris” or the “Company”), a Maryland-based biotech company, …
