Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.

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Justices To Resolve Split On Supervised Release Fugitives

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case poised to resolve a sharp circuit split over whether the "fugitive tolling" doctrine barring criminal defendants from earning credits to reduce prison sentences while they are not behind bars also should apply to defendants who abscond from supervised release.

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High Court To Hear Fight Over Investment Fund Suits

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could limit the ability of private parties to assert contract violations against investment funds, with one activist investor accusing several closed-end funds of shutting it out of its voting rights.

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Ex-Ohio Speaker Calls 6th Circ. Bribery Ruling A 'Stretch'

By Ryan Harroff

Former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink its decision to stand by his bribery conviction over the FirstEnergy nuclear bailout scandal that got him 20 years in prison, arguing the panel made "an illegal stretch" in assuming the jurors undertook proper analysis despite allegedly improper instructions.

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9 Charged With Cyberfraud In Aid Of North Korea

By Julie Manganis

Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S. Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday.

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Beasley Is Latest Player Scrutinized In NBA Gambling Probe

By David Steele

The National Basketball Association's Malik Beasley is at least the third player in the league to be investigated by federal prosecutors for his role in gambling on performances in games, sources confirmed Monday to Law360.

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9th Circ. Nixes Suit Against Allianz Over $6B Fraud Sentence

By Ganesh Setty

A man can't bring securities fraud claims against Allianz SE after one of the German financial services giant's former businesses pled guilty to investment fund fraud and was ordered to pay roughly $6 billion, the Ninth Circuit ruled, finding he failed to sufficiently allege Allianz SE itself acted fraudulently.

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Brief

Judge Hits Pause On Civil RICO Suit Against NJ Power Broker

By Ryan Harroff

A New Jersey judge has entered a consent order pausing a real estate developer's civil racketeering suit against influential South Jersey businessman George Norcross III, holding the parties' dispute in stasis until an appeal over the dismissal of a related criminal indictment can be resolved.

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UMich Hacking Suit Adds NFL Head Coach Jim Harbaugh

By Elaine Briseño

Jim Harbaugh, head football coach for the Los Angeles Chargers, has been named as a defendant in the civil rights lawsuit against former University of Michigan coach Matthew Weiss, who is accused of pilfering the personal information of thousands of female athletes.

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Philly-Area Law Firm's Bookkeeper Jailed For Embezzlement

By Matthew Santoni

The former bookkeeper at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, law firm has been sentenced to one to two years of incarceration for embezzling more than $820,000 from the firm, state prosecutors announced Friday.

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Lin Wood Can't Avoid Legal Costs In Defamation Case

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has found that retired attorney L. Lin Wood can't escape paying his former law partners $750,000 in attorney fees and costs related to a $3.75 million defamation verdict against him, rejecting his argument that the statute governing attorney fees was unconstitutional.

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DOJ Says Over 300 Charged In $14.6B Healthcare Fraud Sting

By Mark Payne

A healthcare fraud operation conducted by federal and state law enforcement groups netted more than 300 defendants in a slew of schemes amounting to $14.6 billion in potential false claims, the Justice Department announced Monday.

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Brief

FCC To Screen Regulatory Offenses For Criminal Liability

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has outlined criteria to decide when regulatory offenses should lead to criminal liability, responding to a White House executive order issued to federal agencies in May.

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Yoga To The People Founder Gets 4 Years For Tax Evasion

By Stewart Bishop

A Manhattan federal judge Monday sentenced the founder of Yoga to the People to four years in prison for dodging more than $1 million in taxes over an eight-year period, during which the once-popular fitness chain did not file a single corporate tax return.

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DOJ Allowed To Protect Antitrust Probe Of Fragrance Market

By Matthew Perlman

A New Jersey federal court on Monday granted the U.S. Department of Justice permission to intervene in a case against several fragrance companies after enforcers said they need to protect an ongoing criminal probe of the industry over a conspiracy to reduce competition.

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Husch Blackwell Adds Ex-US Atty, DOJ Public Integrity Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Todd Gee, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi and an ex-member of the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, has joined Husch Blackwell LLP as a white collar partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

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Opinion

FCPA Shift Is A Good Start, But There's More DOJ Should Do

The U.S. Department of Justice’s new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act guidelines bring a needed course correction amid overexpansive enforcement, but there’s more the DOJ can do to provide additional clarity and predictability for global companies, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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Prepping For SEC's Changing Life Sciences Enforcement

By proactively addressing several risk areas, companies in the life sciences sector can position themselves to minimize potential exposure under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's return to back-to-basics enforcement focused on insider trading and fraud, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Series

Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

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Trump Admin Appeals Perkins Coie Case To DC Circ.

By Daniel Connolly

The Trump administration announced in D.C. federal court on Monday that it's not giving up on its effort to punish Perkins Coie LLP through an executive order, even after losing four court rulings that found its actions in this and three similar cases are unconstitutional.

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Dunn Isaacson Now In NY, Calif. With Latest Paul Weiss Hires

By Alison Knezevich

Two more litigators from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP who have represented top technology companies and other clients in court battles have joined Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP.

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Seyfarth Lands 22 Transactional Attys From Morris Manning

By Tracey Read

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it has added a 22-lawyer transactional team from Morris Manning & Martin LLP, including 11 partners in the real estate, corporate and employee benefits groups, while the latter firm indicated it's in talks to expand its ranks.

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Fox Rothschild Beats RICO Suit From 2 Former Clients

By Rose Krebs

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed federal racketeering and state law claims lodged against Fox Rothschild LLP by two former clients who accused the firm of "knowingly and willfully robbing their immigration clients."

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Justices To Review Persecution Standard In Immigration Appeal

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look at whether the First Circuit was right to give deference to the Board of Immigration Appeals' conclusion that a Salvadoran family failed to show it suffered persecution back home and is therefore ineligible for asylum.

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Tillis Doesn't Plan Roadblocks On Judiciary Nominations

By Courtney Bublé

Following his announcement on Sunday that he won't be seeking reelection, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who previously sank President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told Law360 on Monday that his approach to judiciary nominations won't change.

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High Court Takes GOP Challenge To Election Spending Limits

By Carolyn Muyskens

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would review caps on how much political parties can spend on elections in coordination with candidates in a case brought by Vice President JD Vance and Republican organizations.

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Analysis

Supreme Court May Shape Future Of ISP Liability In Cox Case

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to take on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. could set new liability boundaries for internet service providers that have faced significant damages for allegedly not curbing users who repeatedly download songs illegally.

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Calif. Panel Chides Attys Who Hid Opponent's Inactive Status

By Emily Sawicki

In a precedential ruling, a California appellate panel found a party whose counsel's license was made inactive should have been treated as though the attorney had died or been suspended, overturning a $70,000 fee award levied against a woman who was not informed that her lawyer was inactive.

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Roundup

4 Arguments Sessions Bias Attys Should Watch in July

By Amanda Ottaway

The Third and Sixth Circuits are scheduled to hear a quartet of oral arguments in July as a fired bus driver, professor, human resources executive and school dean each plan to argue that their terminations violated federal anti-bias law. Here, Law360 looks at those cases. 

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