Supreme Court rules that juries - not judges - must determine facts supporting large criminal fines *

USA - July 20 2012
Criminal fines in white collar, antitrust, environmental, health care, and other cases can balloon into the millions – or even hundreds of millions – of dollars if certain facts are found.

Co-authors: Efrem M. Grail.

In Re Grand Jury, No. 12-1697 (3d Cir. May 24, 2012) *

USA - June 13 2012
A federal district court’s order that a corporation produce documents to a federal grand jury – despite objections that the materials are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine, and that the documents are held by the corporation’s outside attorneys – cannot be immediately reviewed by a federal court of appeals, unless the corporation first willfully defies the order by refusing to produce and is held in contempt by the district court.

Co-authors: Efrem M. Grail.