Topic
Enforcement
988 published works
Grand Jury Target
White-Collar Trends in 2021
By: Jaime Rosenberg A lot happened in the white-collar realm in 2021 and the Biden administration. The Department of Justice outlined a plan to increase its enforcement of white-collar crimes.…
Regulatory Oversight
Your Company May Be a Likely Target of State Attorneys General. You May Not See It Coming.
By Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., Chris Carlson
Risk and compliance teams are familiar with potential enforcement from federal regulators. But action from state attorneys general (acting alone or in coalition) can take the unsuspecting business completely by…
California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
What's The DFPI Doing In Federal Court?
Enforcement actions by the California Department of Financial Protection typically involve either administrative proceedings or civil actions in the California state courts. Recently, however, the DFPI announced that it and…
Ad Law Access
Senate Spars with FTC BCP Director Sam Levine over FTC Enforcement, Surprisingly from Both Sides
By John E. Villafranco, Donnelly McDowell, Maggie C. Crosswy
Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security held its second hearing in less than a year on COVID-19 fraud, price gouging, and related…
Health Law Prof Blog
Parallel Pandemics: The American Problem of Anti-Enforcement, Rational Distrust, and COVID-19
Najarian Peters (University of Kansas), Parallel Pandemics: The American Problem of Anti-Enforcement, Rational Distrust, and COVID-19, 52 Seton Hall L. Rev. 2 (2021):In the United States of America, we have…
SEC Actions
This Week In Securities Litigation (Week of January 24, 2022)
Enforcement continued to focus in traditional areas last week. The new actions initiated were based on insider trading claims and offering fraud type claims. Chair Gensler continued to discuss updating…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Denies Motion to Drop Enforcement Action in GreenHat Proceeding, Sparking Dissent from Commissioner Danly
By Miles Kiger
On January 5, 2022, FERC denied a motion of the Andrew Kittell Estate (“Kittell Estate”) to drop FERC’s enforcement action against GreenHat Energy, LLC (“GreenHat”) because of an October 1,…
FCPA Professor
Hats Off To Urofsky
By Mike Koehler
Shearman & Sterling recently released its annual “Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” Year in and year out, it is one of the…
Cleary Enforcement Watch
Priorities, Trends and Developments in Enforcement and Compliance
By Matthew C. Solomon, Victor L. Hou, Joon H. Kim, Lisa Vicens, Samuel Levander
2021 was a year of transition for white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement. As courthouses reopened and trials resumed, newly-installed heads of law enforcement authorities looked to reset priorities and ramp…
Cartel Capers
FTC HAS THE “HELP WANTED” SIGN OUT
The FTC is hiring a number of attorneys to beef up its enforcement effort in the Bureau of Competition. The FTC calls the hiring “Continuous.” Complete information about these openings…