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hile all eyes are on the Supreme Court today for the oral arguments in Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Hunt, the Court ....

The Jeffrey Epstein matter has roiled the political world in profound and unexpected ways. Amidst this tumult, Senate Democrats are invoking a rarely used law — 5 U.S.C. § 2954 (Section 2954)...

On November 30, 2020, the Supreme Court heard arguments in its first consideration of the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act(CFAA),

Between 2010 and 2020, the Court decided 28 civil procedure cases from the First District: five from Division One, six from Division Two, four from Division Three, three from Division Four and five each from Divisions Five and Six.

This week, we're continuing our deep dive into the data on amicus briefs, looking at two questions.

This time, we're reviewing the same questions on the criminal side that we looked at yesterday on the civil: (1) what areas of law tend to draw the most amicus briefs...

Between 2010 and 2020, the Supreme Court decided 36 tort cases from Chicago's First District: three from Division One, six from Division Two, eight from Division three, nine from Division Four,...

Madison and St. Clair counties account for well over half of the population of the Fifth District counties which produced cases in the past decade – 29.09% in Madison, 28.17%...

This time, we're reviewing the geographic distribution of civil cases from the Fourth District during the 1990s.

Today we begin a new series, looking at the geographic origins of the Supreme Court's civil docket from the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts of the Appellate Court.

This week, we're concluding our series tracing the origin of the civil cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, District by District, since 1990.

With this post, we're reviewing the distribution of civil cases from the Third District for the years 1990 through 1999. First, let's look at the population distribution.

Earlier this week, the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against nine registered investment advisers (RIA) for advertising hypothetical fund...

=On May 11, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Alaska's largest telecommunications provider, GCI Communications Corp. (GCI), had agreed to pay US$40 million to settle a False Claims Act action...

On March 13, 2018, the United States Internal Revenue Service issued News Release 2018-52 announcing that it will begin to ramp down the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in December 2017, offers new tax incentives for taxpayers investing through special vehicles known as "qualified opportunity funds" in certain economically distressed areas ...

On September 1, 2021, the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against several individuals and entities associated with the now-shuttered cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect...