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In April 2005, Mr. Steinke, the Relator in this case, filed a suit under the Nevada False Claims Act, N.R.S. § 357.010 et seq. This suit focused on the allegations in the federal action that Merck failed to include so-called nominal price.

A Short Tour Through the Mind of a Serial Killer Nevada Public Radio recently reported on the strange case of the "Grim Sleeper." According to NPR, Lonnie David Franklin preyed on prostitutes and addicts in California and Nevada in a string of.

What are the consequences of committing a federal white collar crime? For years, casual conversation included references to a “slap on the wrist” and short stints in “country club” prisons, where federal inmates reportedly enjoyed leisurely activities, including golf and tennis. Not.

Yet another Ponzi schemer has made headlines on his way to federal incarceration. Algird M. Norkus, a 67-year-old man from Aurora, Illinois, was recently convicted by the Northern District of Illinois in Rockford to a 63-month term of imprisonment after pleading guilty.

Charles Whitman and America's First Mass Shooting Anyone who was born before 1955 can remember America's first mass shooting. If not, criminal justice attorney Nick Wooldridge reminds. The shooting shook the nation's conscience. It prompted Congress to act quickly. Within months of.

We have discussed the case of U.S. v. Jones, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held in February that the attaching of a global positioning satellite (GPS) device constituted a search. Well, the government is attempting to re-try the defendant, Antoine Jones..

A cyber attack against health insurance company is a glowing reminder that large health care organizations are prone to hacking. Anthem, the country's second-biggest health insurance provider, is the most recent target of cyber hackers. Over eighty million clients, including the corporation's.

CEBU CITY, Philippines - A 54-year-old man will be spending the rest of his life in jail for selling 10 sticks of marijuana weighing 1.79 grams in 2005. Regional Trial Court Judge Gabriel Ingles Monday ordered Rosario Bayot Mahinay to pay a.

  On November 4, 2014, the voters of Nevada approved SJR 14 by a margin of 287,183 to 246,836.  SJR 14 was a measure asking whether the Nevada Constitutions should be amended to create an Intermediate Appellate Court.  This was the second.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing its pursuit of enforcement actions against insider trading, and this year is no exception. Notably, the SEC just recently filed an enforcement action against a former executive at a beverage company. The complaint.