The few notable exceptions involve data that would allow the government to intrude upon the intimacies of people's lives by tracking their physical location over extended periods—as Carpenter found CSLI does.

Since our reports on February 20, 2019 and April 30, 2019, no states have followed California in adopting comprehensive privacy legislation but three states have enacted targeted privacy laws.

As the Court noted, its decision removes an important "Catch-22" that had hindered property owners in bringing federal takings claims.

On May 6, 2019, the Justice Department issued new policies establishing how defendants in False Claims Act matters can earn credit for voluntary self-disclosure, cooperation, and remediation, possibly reducing ...

She stressed the importance of Congress's taking action promptly.

Washington's Privacy Act, which previously seemed likely to be the first state enactment to follow in the CCPA's wake, failed to make it out of the state house before the end of the legislative session.

Continuing Congress's consideration of possible comprehensive federal privacy legislation, the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection held a hearing ...

Since the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, fraud and market manipulation have been top enforcement priorities of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission).

Legislators from both parties voiced support for comprehensive and bipartisan legislation.

This week both the House and Senate held hearings kicking off the legislative process for federal privacy legislation.

Since the beginning of the Trump Administration, and particularly in the last six months, the Justice Department has been exercising its authority to dismiss qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) cases with increasing frequency.

The enactment in June 2018 of California's sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, has both increased momentum for enactment of a general federal privacy law and spurred state legislatures ...

The enactment in June 2018 of California's sweeping new privacy law, the CCPA, has both increased momentum for enactment of a general federal privacy law and spurred state legislatures to consider privacy bills of their own.

Federal False Claims Act recoveries in fiscal year 2018 amounted to $2.88 billion, down by roughly $600 million from the prior year and dropping below $3 billion for the first time in eight years.

On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1001, which makes it illegal "for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead the other person ...