The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it's speeding up the agency's review of whistleblower complaints accusing contractors of defrauding state-administered benefits programs that are funded by the federal government, in violation of the False Claims Act. 
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TOP NEWS

DOJ To Speed Up Review Of Qui Tam Benefits Fraud Claims

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it's speeding up the agency's review of whistleblower complaints accusing contractors of defrauding state-administered benefits programs that are funded by the federal government, in violation of the False Claims Act. 

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Brief

UnitedHealthcare Unit Settles PrEP Coverage Fight

By Kelcey Caulder

A UnitedHealthcare subsidiary and two customers who alleged its failure to approve full coverage for PrEP violated the Affordable Care Act have agreed to settle their dispute, parties told a Minnesota federal court.

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Brief

Delta, Retirees Fail To Reach Accord In Benefits Battle

By Kelcey Caulder

A proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts will move forward after the airline and former workers failed to settle during mediation earlier this month.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Fla. Businessmen File Bid To Seize Ex-Official's $770K Payout

By David Minsky

Two Miami businessmen asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to garnish a former city commissioner's $770,000 settlement from a state court lawsuit as payment toward a multimillion-dollar political retaliation judgment, arguing the funds can't be shielded under state law as they are compensatory in nature.

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LITIGATION

9th Circ. Won't Revisit FCA Ruling Over Drug Price Program

By Ganesh Setty

The Ninth Circuit has said it will not disturb its March ruling allowing a hospital chain to pursue a False Claims Act lawsuit against various pharmaceutical companies for allegedly causing the government to overpay for drugs under a discount program.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Fried Goldberg

AXS Law Group

Allegaert Berger

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Bailey & Glasser

Baron & Budd

Carlton Fields

Castagna Scott

Claggett & Sykes

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Dorsey & Whitney

Fisher & Phillips

Freiwald Law

Gilmartin Magence

Gupta Wessler

Hogan Lovells

Izard Kindall

King & Spalding

Lennon Murphy

Ligris & Associates

Lockridge Grindal

McCarter & English

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Munger Tolles

Nix Patterson

Powers Pyles

Richard J. Diaz PA

Ropes & Gray

Ross LLP

Townsend Law Firm

Walden Macht

Watts Law Firm

Wiggin & Dana

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Yetter Coleman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AbbVie Inc.

Adventist Health System Inc.

Affordable Care LLC

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services

AstraZeneca PLC

Audi AG

Banyan

Boston University

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CATIC Financial Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Council on Criminal Justice

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Genworth Financial Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Harvard University

LinkedIn Corp.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Quince

Sanofi

Snap Inc.

Stavvy Inc.

The Florida Bar

TikTok Inc.

UMR Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Miami

Volkswagen AG

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Florida Supreme Court

Health Resources and Services Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Supreme Court of Nevada

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Nevada