On October 19, 2011, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a lawsuit against Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (“Citigroup”) charging it with “a substantial securities fraud” arising out its sale of mortgage-backed securities in the year 2007. Simultaneously with the filing of its Complaint against Citigroup, the SEC and ...

In this case, a divided Supreme Court struck down a Missouri law that allowed police routinely to force drunk-driving suspects to give blood samples without a warrant and without consent. By a 5-4 vote, and in a decision that was tightly limited by the question presented to the Court, the ...

In this case, the Court was called upon to assess the substantive reasonableness of an above-Guidelines, add-on sentence of 54 months imposed on Cameron Douglas (the son of Hollywood actor Michael Douglas), who pled guilty to possession of drugs while an inmate of a Federal prison, in violation of 18 ...

uThe Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) which was enacted by the First Congress in 1789 and which is currently codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1350, states in its entirety: "The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of ...

By a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court extended a small degree of leniency (and a large dose of rationality) to the U.S. immigration laws by holding that non-citizens living legally in the U.S. who get convicted in a state court for ”social sharing of a small amount of marijuana,” are ...

Here the Court approved a two-level enhancement for “sophisticated means” in a tax fraud case, after concluding that the offense conduct “need not involve highly complex schemes or exhibit exceptional brilliance" to justify the enhancement.

This is another of a string of recent rulings that suggests it doesn’t take much ...