Second in a series of four primers on the key legal regimes incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers who report fraud: the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower programs.
Baker & Hostetler attorneys discuss the DOJ investigation into price-fixing in the chicken industry.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws that prohibit mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims.
A recent Philadelphia Court ruling rejected a new land valuation method used by the city to assess the property tax burden of condominium owners. In rejecting the city’s approach, the court embraced the traditional valuation process more commonly used to assess the amount of property tax condominium owners must pay.
Ballard Spahr associate, Dina Bleckman (LAW ’18), unpacks Philadelphia’s ten-year real estate tax abatement debate.
With the 2019-20 school year kicking off, The Temple10-Q offers advice for first-year law students.
Temple Law alumna Sara Lima, along with her co-authors Joseph Carr and Michael Kenehan, explore issues of duplicate liability for companies holding unclaimed property.
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently in Taggart v. Lorenzen that a creditor in a bankruptcy case may be held in civil contempt, and subject to sanction, where there is “no fair ground of doubt” about whether the discharge order barred the creditor’s conduct. Creditors engaging with consumers post-discharge often face litigation for
The Editors of the Temple 10-Q share some quick tips on how to make the most of the interview process.
Fox Rothschild partner, Nevena Simidjiyska (LAW ‘07), reports on the Dept. of Commerce addition of Chinese Tech companies to its restricted entity list for national security concerns.