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Defining civil RICO "enterprise" after 'Boyle'

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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September 9 2009

In Boyle v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court revisited the definition of "enterprise" in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), an issue it first decided in 1981 in United States v. Turkette

Sarbanes-Oxley “protected activity” wins a broad interpretation but is the decision faithful to congressional intent?

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 8 2011

In a case packed with allegations of the kind rarely found beyond the script of a soap opera, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Administrative Review Board (“ARB”) determined that protected activity under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) does not require a showing of fraud against shareholders

District court holds that Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection does not have extraterritorial reach--longstanding presumption against extraterritoriality may also apply to other statutes

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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July 5 2012

Global whistleblowers cannot look to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank”) for protection against retaliation, according to a recent federal court decision

Courts continue to apply RICO to immigration violations

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 28 2010

The federal courts continue to uphold claims under the Racketeer Corrupt Influenced Organizations Act ("RICO") that involve immigration violations

Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint dismissed for failure to enumerate basis of statutory protection

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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November 1 2010

An in-house patent attorney who protested that his employer knowingly assigned a $50 million value to acquire patents alleged to be worthless could not link his discharge to whistleblower activity protected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Grand jury investigates misuse of B-1 visa classification

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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June 29 2011

A federal grand jury in Texas is investigating Infosys Technologies Ltd. ("Infosys") for possible criminal violations arising out of the company's use of B-1 nonimmigrant business visas

Former paint company technical director sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for trade secret theft

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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December 13 2010

Last September, we wrote about David Yen Lee, a former technical director for a painting and coating company who pled guilty to downloading trade secrets from a secure computer system and transferring them to external thumb drives with the intention of using the trade secrets for the benefit of another

Supreme Court holds that government's FOIA response triggers FCA's public disclosure bar: relators may not use FOIA as basis for qui tam claims

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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June 23 2011

A federal agency's response to a request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") constitutes a "report" triggering the public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act ("FCA"), according to the U.S. Supreme Court's holding on May 16, 2011, in Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk (No. 10-188

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Defining civil RICO "enterprise" after 'Boyle'

Sarbanes-Oxley “protected activity” wins a broad interpretation but is the decision faithful to congressional intent?

District court holds that Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection does not have extraterritorial reach--longstanding presumption against extraterritoriality may also apply to other statutes

Courts continue to apply RICO to immigration violations

Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint dismissed for failure to enumerate basis of statutory protection

Grand jury investigates misuse of B-1 visa classification

Former paint company technical director sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for trade secret theft

Supreme Court holds that government's FOIA response triggers FCA's public disclosure bar: relators may not use FOIA as basis for qui tam claims

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