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Egan Exception

The Dodd-Frank Act protects any employee whistleblower—as long as he reports directly to the SEC. But a district court’s recent decision in…
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Inside Counsel

Supreme Court to finally hear ObamaCare arguments

The long-awaited day has finally come. Two years after the Obama administration passed the much-maligned Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Supreme Court today finally begins to hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the law. And the hype is so large that spectators have been queuing up...
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Inside Counsel

Court denies AstraZeneca’s bid to block generic Seroquel

A district court denied biopharmaceutical company AstraZenecas request for a preliminary injunction that would delay generic versions of its anti-psychotic drug Seroquel from entering the market.
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Inside Counsel

Johnson & Johnson heads back to court in Risperdal suit

J&J will head back to a Texas courtroom to further discuss the $158 million settlement it had reached with the state in January.
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Inside Counsel

Foreign governments seek shares of FCPA settlements

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) received a letter containing a convoluted proposal that would drastically alter the way it approaches foreign bribery cases.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

"Knowing" your Latin American customer

The Inter-American Development Bank noted that money laundering in the Latin American region was possibly the highest in the worldsomewhere between 2.5 and 6.3 percent of the regional gross domestic product."
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Inside Counsel

Regulatory: CFTC adopts rules further protecting FCM customer property

On Jan. 11, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalized the heavily debated segregation model for cleared swaps customer collateral, referred to as the Legally Segregated Operationally Commingled Model (LSOC).
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Judges dismiss cases against generic-drug makers in droves

A Supreme Court ruling last year has made it impossible for plaintiffs who experience bad reactions to generic drugs to obtain legal remedies.
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Inside Counsel

Regulatory: FAA Reauthorization Act exempts next-gen airspace redesign projects from environmental review

Superseding its own wide-ranging mandate to the executive branch of the U.S. government to carefully study the environmental impacts of that branchs administrative actions, Congress on Feb. 6 enacted the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012.
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International Edition

FSA enforcement chief joins PwC as UK GC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has hired the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) former director of enforcement and financial crime, Margaret Cole, as its new UK general counsel. Cole, who will join the accounting giant in the autumn after serving a period of gardening leave, will take over from Owen Jonathan when he retires from the professional services giant in December.
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