Wash. Healthcare Firm's Ex-CEO Admits To Embezzling $24M
A former chief executive officer of Washington-based Community Clinic Network has pled guilty to wire fraud in Washington federal court, admitting he drained almost $24.4 million from the healthcare company's ... (more story)
Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Paul Weiss, Kirkland
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Germany's Merck KGaA acquires life sciences tools supplier Bio-Techne Corp., drugmaker AbbVie buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Apogee Therapeutics, and bui... (more story)
4th Circ. Says Supply Co.'s Foreign Member Kills Diversity
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a medical supply company's contract dispute against a U.K. corporation over COVID-19 test kits, after finding that the lack of a U.S. citizen on the supply ... (more story)
11th Circ. Urged To Toss Convictions In $1.4B Hospital Fraud
Two brothers convicted in a $1.4 billion scheme to bill insurers inflated rates for drug tests told the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence to support their convictions and that ... (more story)
A Midyear Look At Antiterrorism Act Jurisprudence And Policy
Plaintiffs have filed comparably fewer new actions under the Antiterrorism Act this year, though a handful of key decisions further defined the statute’s aiding-and-abetting standard and highlighted continuing... (more story)
Cassava Investors Ink $31M Drug Suit Deal Alongside Appeal
Cassava Sciences investors have asked a Texas federal judge to preliminarily approve a $31 million settlement that ends their claims the pharmaceutical company inflated its stock prices with misleading informa... (more story)