The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. has agreed to pay more than $26.1 million to resolve charges that its former Chinese subsidiary bribed Chinese government officials with lavish gifts to obtain outdoor advertising contracts in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
A California federal judge said Wednesday he will likely grant Sutter Health a win in a physician's sprawling lawsuit alleging the nonprofit paid doctors lucrative kickbacks to steer low-income patients to other hospitals, saying the claims appear to be time-barred and doubting there is evidence linking the kickbacks to the physician's injury.
The Tenth Circuit ordered an industry group representing pharmacy benefit managers Monday to respond to the Oklahoma attorney general's recent en banc rehearing petition that claims a three-judge panel's decision to overturn portions of a state statute regulating PBMs is "unsettling" and creates circuit slips.
A California judge presiding over a bench trial involving a Sutter Health whistleblower's $519 million double-billing claims excluded portions of testimony Monday offered by the whistleblower's compliance expert after Sutter's counsel repeatedly called into question the hospital administrator's experience working as a nurse in acute-care hospital facilities.
A Sutter Health whistleblower's compliance and billing expert testified over Sutter's numerous objections Tuesday in a $519 million California bench trial that the Golden State hospital nonprofit has overcharged patients and insurers for unnecessary recovery room and operating room services for years.
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday vacated a $124.5 million award to the tenant of a Lake Charles, Louisiana, seaport in its yearslong contract fight with the port, finding that allegations the magistrate judge never disclosed her longtime friendship with the seaport's counsel raise "serious doubts" about the port's consent for the jurist to hear the case.
Counsel representing a retired Sutter Health orthopedic surgeon told a California state judge during bench trial openings in his whistleblower suit Wednesday that the nonprofit owes $519 million after allegedly double-billing for certain operating-room services without documentation, while Sutter's counsel defended its billing practices as proper.
A California federal judge approved Tuesday Juul's $255 million deal resolving multidistrict litigation over the company's alleged marketing to children, but held off on awarding attorney fees and refused to let the controversial ClaimClam website, which uses AI to identify potential class members, submit thousands of claims "en masse."
A New York federal judge has refused to grant a new trial to a former Locke Lord LLP partner convicted in 2019 of laundering over $400 million tied to the global OneCoin cryptocurrency scam, finding a key witness's perjury — and prosecutors' awareness of the perjury — likely had no impact on the jury's verdict.
The D.C. Circuit on Friday unsealed more documents in X Corp.'s fight over a $350,000 sanction for refusing to produce former President Donald Trump's Twitter account records, revealing that X produced 32 direct messages while prosecutors argued Trump can't know about the warrant because he could obstruct the investigation and "precipitate violence."