Anti-Kickback Statute Does Not Require But-For Causation
A proper interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute clearly indicates that but-for causation is not required for False Claims Act Liability, and courts that hold otherwise will make it significantly...
View ArticlePolicy Rider Saves Hospital's Pandemic Claim, 1st Circ. Rules
The First Circuit on Wednesday partially reinstated a Massachusetts hospital's COVID-19-related claim against insurer Continental Casualty, citing a policy rider that specifically covered the costs of...
View ArticleMass. Facility Using Once-Barred Shock Devices Sues FDA
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for allegedly flouting federal open records laws, adding that the agency worked to resurrect its ban on electric...
View ArticleEx-Defender Says Impostor Syndrome Affects Women More
A former assistant federal defender followed up on claims she made about impostor syndrome during her sexual harassment trial against the judiciary, telling the court that academic studies and a Ninth...
View ArticleHedge Fund Priest Seeks Atty Fees After Mixed SEC Verdict
A Greek Orthodox priest and hedge fund manager who fended off certain claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at trial asked a Massachusetts federal judge to grant him more than $1.7...
View ArticleWynn Seeks Nix Of Back Pay Award After Worker's Racial Slur
A Wynn casino and resort in Massachusetts filed suit against two unions, seeking to toss an arbitration award that ordered the reinstatement and compensation of back pay to an employee who was fired...
View ArticleEBay Pays $3M Criminal Penalty For Cyberstalking
EBay Inc. has agreed to pay the maximum $3 million criminal penalty for a campaign of terror that its security employees rained down on a Massachusetts couple to squelch their online reporting on the...
View ArticleAtty's Mid-Trial Naps Wipe Away Client's Murder Conviction
Massachusetts' top appellate court on Wednesday tossed a murder conviction and ordered a new trial after the defendant argued that his lawyer slept through critical portions of his first trial.
View ArticleHarvard Ignores 'Rampant, Severe' Antisemitism, Suit Says
Harvard University "has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment" and has failed to address "particularly severe and pervasive" antisemitism on campus in the months following the...
View ArticleMass. Broker Commission-Fixing Suit Delayed For DOJ Input
A Massachusetts federal court has paused a class action against multiple listing services over their broker commission rules while it awaits the U.S. Department of Justice's input on a proposed...
View ArticleWalgreens Loses Bid To Reroute Pain Patch Marketing Suit
Walgreens has traveled too far down the path of litigating a customer's pain patch deception claims to be able to now steer the dispute to arbitration, an Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday.
View ArticleStablecoin Firm Circle Confidentially Files Plans To Go Public
Stablecoin issuer Circle, whose previous bid to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company failed, said Thursday it has confidentially filed plans for an initial public...
View ArticleHearst Must Face VPPA Suit Over Data Sharing On News Apps
Hearst Television can't escape a proposed class action alleging it intentionally shares users' personal information with Google's DoubleClick, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Thursday, finding...
View Article'Sophie's Choice' Writer's Family Sued Over Stage Rights Deal
A writer tasked by the late "Sophie's Choice" author William Styron to bring the Holocaust drama to the stage claims the author's family breached an agreement granting him the rights and tanked efforts...
View ArticleTriller Sidelined, Fired Exec Over Pregnancies, Suit Claims
Video platform Triller's former head of social media says in a lawsuit that she was sidelined after returning from maternity leave, then fired after revealing that she was expecting another child.
View ArticleQuest Fertility Biz Reaches $1.25M Deal In Data Breach Case
A Quest Diagnostics fertility treatment unit has reached a $1.25 million settlement, according to a Wednesday filing in Massachusetts federal court, after a 2021 ransomware attack and accusations that...
View ArticleDOJ Says FTC's IQVIA Win Backs JetBlue-Spirit Challenge
The Department of Justice is telling the Massachusetts federal judge overseeing its case against the JetBlue and Spirit Airlines merger that he should take guidance from the Southern District of New...
View ArticleChicago Rapper Avoids Prison For Credit Card Con
A Boston federal judge sentenced Chicago rapper G Herbo to three years of probation for his part in a conspiracy to use stolen credit card information bought on the dark web to finance a high-rolling...
View ArticleWind Farm Co. Wants In On Whale Disruption Permit Appeal
The developer of an 800-megawatt offshore wind farm told the First Circuit that it should be able to join a solar developer’s attempt to knock off federal agency authorizations for the project on...
View ArticleEx-Atty Among 5 Indicted In Alleged $140M Pump-And-Dump
A former California attorney and four Canadians have been indicted for an alleged $140 million pump-and-dump scheme, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Thursday.
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