The National Fraud Enforcement Division's new corporate enforcement policy emphasizes the quick pursuit of certain types of fraud through data analysis and staff resources, expands the target list beyond traditional healthcare providers and highlights the division's growing dominance within the U.S. Department of Justice, experts say.
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New Fraud Division Flexes Might In Latest Enforcement Policy

By Phillip Bantz

The National Fraud Enforcement Division's new corporate enforcement policy emphasizes the quick pursuit of certain types of fraud through data analysis and staff resources, expands the target list beyond traditional healthcare providers and highlights the division's growing dominance within the U.S. Department of Justice, experts say.

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FBI Turns To UFC To Help Train Its Agents

By Courtney Bublé

The FBI is going to enlist Ultimate Fighting Championship to train its special agents in defense technical techniques focusing on mixed martial arts, the agency has said.

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Gov't Attys Could Face Sanctions Over AI Use Omissions

By Madeline Lyskawa

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has ordered four government attorneys to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for making factual misrepresentations about the U.S. Army's use of artificial intelligence to evaluate contract proposals.

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Sen. Scott Can Trim Booz Allen Tax Info Leak Suit, Judge Says

By Zak Kostro

Sen. Rick Scott can narrow his suit over an IRS contractor's leak of his tax returns to proceed only on a negligence claim against Booz Allen Hamilton in Florida federal court, a judge ruled, saying the trim avoids overlapping litigation after claims against the leaker were transferred.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Air Force Licenses Drone Capture Patent To AI Tech Co.

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Air Force is licensing one of its patents meant to trap drones and disarm their communication systems to an artificial intelligence space and defense infrastructure company to evaluate its use across various applications.

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ENFORCEMENT

Texas Clinics Settle False COVID-19 Billing Claims For $20M

By Spencer Brewer

Two Texas clinics under the same ownership have agreed to pay the government $20 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that they lied about COVID-19 billing, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Ex-Coal Exec's Bribe Sentencing Paused Amid Witness Claims

By Phillip Bantz

A Pennsylvania federal judge agreed Wednesday to reschedule an upcoming sentencing hearing for a former coal executive convicted of authorizing bribes to an arm of the Egyptian government, after his attorneys flagged new allegations against a star witness for the prosecution.

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LITIGATION

US Drops Appeal Of $49M In Grants Won By Wind Farm

By Kat Lucero

The U.S. government dropped its Federal Circuit appeal of a lower court's approval of $49.4 million in additional renewable energy cash grants for the country's second-largest wind farm, ending a 13-year dispute over the grant amount.

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DOT Tells 2nd Circ. Congestion Pricing Fight In Wrong Court

By Linda Chiem

The Trump administration doubled down on its efforts to eliminate New York's congestion pricing, telling the Second Circuit that the underlying contract dispute was heard in the wrong court and that it shouldn't be handcuffed to now-disfavored policies of earlier administrations anyway.

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Buffalo Sues Feds Over NY Tribe's Land Sale's Status

By Crystal Owens

The city of Buffalo is asking a New York district court to vacate the federal government's decision to place a 3.8-acre waterfront parcel in a restricted fee status for the Seneca Nation of Indians that could remove the property from the municipality's tax rolls.

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Colo. Landowners Sue To Block Data Center

By Benjamin Morse

Colorado landowners sued Weld County and a data center developer, alleging that the county unlawfully approved the first phase of what they say will be the state's largest data center despite concerns about its water and electricity needs, noise pollution and violations of public meeting requirements.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Mentalism Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Convincing strangers I can read their minds may seem like an unusual second career for a legal practitioner, but both disciplines share several important requirements, including trust and preparation, says Warren Biro at Manatt.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Sheppard Mullin Hit With Class Action Over Data Breach

By Jake Maher

A former Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP paralegal launched a proposed class action against the firm in California federal court on Wednesday over a cyberattack it had in August, in which she says at least 1,000 people's names and Social Security numbers were stolen.

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IP Rights Group Urges Against Litigation Funding Disclosure

By Elliot Weld

An inventor rights advocacy group has told a federal courts rules committee that requiring the disclosure of who is funding civil litigation would put independent inventors at a disadvantage when trying to enforce patents against a larger company.

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Cornell Defendant Seeks To Nix James As Special Prosecutor

By Andrea Keckley

One of the seven men accused of drugging and raping a fellow Cornell University student at a fraternity home has asked a New York state court to void Gov. Kathy Hochul's appointment of New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case.

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Split Congress Could Spur Competing Probes, Cleary Finds

By Courtney Bublé

If the new year brings an era of divided Congress, then "dueling investigations" into the same topics should be expected, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said in a report it released Thursday.

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Fla. Judge Says Oct. 7 Attack Was 'Inflection Point' For U.S.

By David Minsky

U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman addressed a small group of attorneys in a Florida law office to speak on his book about the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, saying public debate over facts surrounding the event and underlying feud has reached an "inflection point" in America.

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Buzbee Faces $970K Fee Bid In Dismissed Conspiracy Cases

By Lynn LaRowe

A Mississippi lawyer is asking a Texas state court to award her more than $970,000 in fees after defeating claims that she and her law firm conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to retaliate against prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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Dems Says GOP Broke Senate Rules In Jack Smith Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have accused Republicans of violating committee rules during a hearing last week with former special counsel Jack Smith.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Buzbee Law Firm

Cleary Gottlieb

Covington & Burling

Fox Rothschild

Gibson Dunn

Kaplan Martin

MJ Legal PA

Manatt Phelps

McDermott Will & Schulte

Miller & Chevalier

Morgan Lewis

Nesenoff & Miltenberg

Otten Johnson

Paul Hastings

Quinn Emanuel

R. McConnell Group PLLC

Reed Smith

Sheppard Mullin

Sive Paget

Strauss Borrelli

Torridon Law

Tripp Scott

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

Anthropic PBC

Atlanta Hawks

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

Cornell University

LinkedIn Corp.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

ROC Nation LLC

Toyota Motor Corp.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

United Nations Children's Fund

Yale University

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Highway Administration

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

National Park Service

New York Attorney General's Office

New York State Department of Transportation

Seneca Nation of Indians

Texas Supreme Court

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Weld County, Colorado