Last month, President Bush signed into law new amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (”ADA”). The amendments were a bipartisan effort and compromise between disability rights groups and business groups, including the Society for Human Resources Management, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers. Overall, Congress made clear its legislative [...]

According to Amerigroup’s website, they are a company “dedicated exclusively to caring for the financially vulnerable, seniors and people with disabilities through publicly-funded programs”. This past Tuesday they settled the largest jury verdict ever awarded under the False Claims Act to the tune of $234 million
In 2006, Cleveland Tyson, a former Amerigroup VP of government [...]

Last week the Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. The 5-4 decision struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns and became the Court’s first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The Second Amendment, ratified in1791, reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary [...]

The class-action law suit giant Milberg Weiss finally admits criminal conduct and agrees to pay $75 million and not fight federal charges of paying kickbacks to several clients. The agreement ends a seven year probe into the practices of the law firm (renamed Milberg LLP). To date four former Milberg partners including trial bar barons [...]

In recently deciding CBOCS West Inc. v. Humphries, the U.S. Supreme Court takes a surprising excursion back to the Civil War era and examines the Nation’s first major civil rights law¾ the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The case raises the issue: does the Act’s first section (now codified as 42 U.S.C. 1981), guaranteeing equality [...]