Tracking the Decision’s Impact by Looking at a Recent Bankruptcy Court Opinion on Enforcing the Automatic Stay Without a Jury Trial
A recent Supreme Court case has brought a long-standing question in bankruptcy practice back to the fore: When do parties have the right to a jury trial? In the summer of 2024, the Supreme
On Friday, the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments in United States ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC regarding the constitutionality of the qui tam provisions in the False Claims Act, which allow private persons, known as relators, to file civil enforcement actions for violations of the FCA. The panel consisted of Trump-appointed Judges
The Trump Administration has launched a coordinated, whole‑of‑government strategy to “totally eliminate” transnational cartels and affiliated criminal organizations. Two major steps have significantly reshaped the risk landscape for companies with operations in Mexico or that engage in cross-border flows between Mexico and the United States.
First, effective February 20, 2025, the administration designated eight organizations
On December 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved a settlement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a broker-dealer for policy and procedure violations and a $2.5 million penalty. As part of the settlement, the SEC also abandoned negligence-based fraud claims against the broker-dealer and
In an announcement made earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department unveiled “a comprehensive audit of all contracts and task orders awarded under preference-based contracting, totaling approximately $9 billion in contract value across Treasury and its bureaus.” The Treasury Department added that “[t]he audit will examine potential misuse of the Small Business Administration’s [SBA] 8(a)
On November 1, 2025, the most recent amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual went into effect. Among other changes, the amendments streamline the sentencing process from three steps to two by eliminating the requirement that sentencing courts consider departures, which have now been removed from the operative text of the guidelines. As amended, the
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained several cybersecurity-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements totaling more than $50 million dollars. Collectively, these settlements reflect a clear message: Cybersecurity is an enforcement priority for the second Trump administration, and any organization that contracts with the federal government is a potential target.
On June 6, 2025
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sweeping new sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector, citing the Kremlin’s continued refusal to engage in good-faith negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. The action designates Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft Oil Company (Rosneft) and Lukoil OAO
The public-disclosure bar is a defense to the False Claims Act (FCA) that prevents relators from pursuing fraud and false claims allegations that have already been publicized, unless the relator is the original source of the information. As statutorily defined, a relator is an “original source” if they voluntarily disclosed the information to the government
On August 27, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion highlighting that, when public companies disclose risks using hypothetical language, those disclosures may be deemed misleading if the risks have already materialized. See City of Hialeah Employees’ Ret. Sys. v. Peloton Interactive, Inc., — F.4th —, 2025 WL