And that’s where FOIA came in. We’ll break down all three risk categories below, to illustrate how financial players like hedge funds use FOIA requests to mitigate potential risk. Five of the requests ...
The False Claims Act is among the oldest anti-fraud statutes in American law. President Lincoln signed it into law on March 2, 1863, in response to fraud by wartime contractors who sold the Union Army ...
Even before Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) walked into a March 11 news conference to kick off an effort to ban the abortion drug mifepristone as unsafe – and days before he opened an investigation into its ...
Months before Boston Scientific expanded its urgent warning this month about the risk of sudden death from its Accolade pacemakers, something quieter was happening inside the U.S. Food and Drug ...
In December, a retired California Highway Patrol officer named Wilma Stone filed an unusual Freedom of Information Act request with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stone asked the agency for ...
Litigation involving the world’s three largest memory-chip manufacturers — Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology — has become a recurring feature of the federal court system in the ...
FOIAengine: Signals From a FOIA Request After a Landmark Settlement Six days after Judge Conway’s settlement order was issued, on January 13, Lawrence Cody of the Normand firm submitted a broad ...
Federal courts are increasingly grappling with the legal status of prediction markets, as exchanges offering contracts on political, economic, and social events test the boundaries of federal ...
A new tranche of just-released Freedom of Information Act requests from news organizations shows how reporters are using the act as an investigative tool to reconstruct internal decision making, trace ...
The past year was one of profound economic uncertainty; the new Presidential administration introduced unprecedented changes in the administrative state. Tariffs signaled a new era of trade policy, ...
When most people think about the Freedom of Information Act, they imagine journalists prying loose hidden facts or activists holding officials accountable. But FOIA is also a workhorse tool for ...
FOIAengine: Was the FTC Involved in Operation “Arctic Frost”? The conservative Heritage Foundation continues to flood federal agencies with Freedom of Information Act requests seeking detailed records ...