Fourth Circuit upholds lengthy “stent” for interventional cardiologist *

USA - April 25 2013
Can a cardiologist be sent to prison for performing medically unnecessary stent procedures, even though he stented a considerably lower percentage of…

Employer-employee reimbursements - 4th Circuit approves burden-shifting instruction in criminal tax case *

USA - June 29 2012
In a criminal income tax evasion case, the government must of course prove every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt, including the defendant's willful failure to report income. 

4th Circuit upholds convictions of trademark infringers for combining two separate “Burberry” marks on bogus luxury goods *

USA - April 20 2012
Can a would-be trademark-infringer evade the trademark laws by superimposing facsimiles of two different trademarks of the same company into a single combined image, and maintaining that the combined image is legally distinguishable from the true ones? 

Federal Appeals Court limits SOX whistleblower protections to employees of public companies *

USA - February 13 2012
In a case of first impression in the federal appellate courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes Oxley Act extend only to employees of “public companies”.

Co-authors: Mary E. Pivec.