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Fraud
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SDNY Blog
Judge Koeltl Finds No RICO Standing For Claim That Competitor Gained Unfair Advantage by Defrauding Customers
In an opinion today, Judge Koeltl partly dismissed a RICO case accusing a home action company called Concierge of deceiving customers about its “auction results, sales statistics, and track records,”…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Upholds Fraud Penalties for Ex-GlobeTel Executives
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently upheld a summary judgment decision granted in favor of the US Securities and Exchange Commission against three former GlobeTel Communications…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
$ 30 Million at Stake and Too Late For Legal Malpractice
AQ Asset Mgt. LLC v Levine 2014 NY Slip Op 30489(U) February 27, 2014 Sup Ct, New York County Docket Number: 652367/2010 Judge: Shirley Werner Kornreich is the story of…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
The “Bright Star” Fades: The NC Business Court On Letters Of Credit
I've resolved this year to blog about every numbered decision of the Business Court, as opposed to past years, where my lack of enthusiasm about the more boring decisions has…
In The (Red)®
What The U.S. Supreme Court’s Unamimous Decision In A Homestead Exemption Case Says About The Power Of Bankruptcy Courts In Business Cases
It seems that most bankruptcy decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court involve individual debtors, and the Supreme Court's latest opinion is no exception. Even though the decision is not in…
GlobalTort
AIG Insurers Seek to Reopen the THAN Bankruptcy to Assert Audit Rights to Look for Fraud in Claiming
By Kirk Hartley
The THAN bankruptcy was and remains a poster child for some of the many flaws in chapter 11 handling of mass tort bankruptcies. In fact, back in the day (fall…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
SDNY Finds Ecuador Judgment Unenforceable in Chevron Environmental Litigation
By joetort
Judge Lewis Kaplan entered judgment today in favor of Chevron in the long-running dispute concerning environmental liability for oil pollution in the Oriente region of Ecuador. The court, after a…
Subject to Inquiry
Corporate Sentencing
By Government Investigations Group
With DPAs being introduced in the UK this week there is clearly every prospect that the trend towards bringing corporate offenders to book will continue, as it has done in…
Elder Law Prof Blog
The Science of Being a Scam Victim?
By rmorgan
Did you ever think about why elders are targeted for scams? An article by Dr. Bruce H Price and Dr. Ekaterina Pivovarova, with Dr. Judith Edersheim, brings science to the…
GlobalTort
The Most Unusual Litigation Preservation Issue – A Man’s Heart, or Is It?
By Kirk Hartley
This article tells an amazing story about possible fraud by a hospital related to a man's heart (the cause of his death was at issue). The events in litigation never…