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Carr Vows to 'Promote Transparent Government' in Records Training Report

“Openness and transparency are critical to an efficient and well-functioning government,” said state Attorney General Chris Carr. “As public officials, we are simply trustees of the people's documents.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

How #ReleaseTheMemo Could Undermine DOJ in FOIA Cases

If the president authorizes the release of a House memo about the FBI, some plaintiffs suing for Justice Department records could get a boost.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

DOJ's New FCPA Enforcement Policy: Clarity for Companies and a Warning for Individuals

The new FCPA policy provides the much-needed assurance that fulsome voluntary self-disclosure of FCPA violations will likely serve to avoid criminal prosecution. At the same time, the new FCPA policy signals that the government will continue to combat corporate misconduct by focusing on individual misconduct.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJSPCA Subject to Open Records Law, NJ Court Rules

The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals must comply with the Open Public Records Act despite its status as a private, nonprofit group, a state appeals court ruled Friday in a published decision.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Trump's US Attorney Pick Reports $1.2M Partner Share at Drinker Biddle

William McSwain, the president's nominee for U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, detailed his pay and some clients in government disclosure documents.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Deep Data Dive Lets Miami Firm Accomplish What Erin Brockovich Couldn't

MSP Recovery Law Firm and its affiliated data engineering company developed an in-house algorithm to query massive federal and state health care spreadsheets and win preliminary approval of a $5 million class action settlement.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Federal Judge Sides With Florida House in Subpoena Battle

A federal judge refused to block subpoenas issued by the Florida House of Representatives demanding documents from broadcasting executive Pat Roberts and his production company, MAT Media, related to contracts with the tourism-marketing agency Visit Florida.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Wells Fargo, Ending Its Appeal, Settles Whistleblower's $577K Retaliation Case

Wells Fargo & Co. has reached a settlement with a former branch manager who claimed she was fired for blowing the whistle on employees who had been opening accounts without permission. Federal regulators earlier ordered the whistleblower be paid $577,000. Wells Fargo had appealed that order.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Journey Back in Time at the Municipal Archives

Cloth-bound books of convictions from the late 1800's and early 1900's are kept on shelves next to cracked leather-bound books of Flatbush Town Board meetings and School District No. 9 tax lists from Brooklyn, circa 1875, at the Municipal Archives.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Part of DOJ's Criminal Discovery 'Blue Book' Unsealed for First Time

The unsealed pages are "broad statements of the government's public criminal discovery policies," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in an unsealing order.
4 minute read

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