by Christine Stackhouse | May 22, 2025
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memo on May 19, 2025 launching the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. (FCA), to pursue claims against recipients of federal funds who violate federal civil...
by Gabrielle Giammattei | May 21, 2025
Kenley Stark co-authored an article titled, ‘Recent Tax Court Decision a Good Reminder of Qualified Appraisal Exception,’ published by Wealth Management. This article examines the U.S. Tax Court decision that upheld a charitable deduction for donated...
by Mallory Schowe | May 16, 2025
What Is an Intrafamily Loan? Intrafamily loans, or loans between family members, can be an effective estate planning tool to transfer potential growth on loaned funds between generations without reducing the lender’s lifetime gift and estate tax exemption. The...
by Mallory Schowe | May 13, 2025
Last month, in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., the Federal Circuit affirmed the Delaware district court’s dismissal of a patent infringement suit, holding that four machine learning-based patents were ineligible for protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This...
by Christine Stackhouse | Apr 30, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) first Robinson-Patman Act (“RPA”) suit in decades has survived a motion to dismiss. The Honorable Fred W. Slaughter in the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled on the papers that the FTC’s...
