Lawsuits Dropped Setting The Record Straight

A Manhattan jury on Monday issued a split verdict in the long-running criminal case against top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, acquitting the defunct law firm’s executive director but convicting its former chief financial officer on fraud and conspiracy charges. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A federal judge has refused to acquit a Florida ophthalmologist linked to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez who was found guilty of overbilling Medicare by $ 32 million for unnecessary eye injections, finding the jury had sufficient evidence to return its verdict against the doctor. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The New England Compounding Center pharmacist convicted of racketeering in March over a deadly meningitis outbreak asked a federal judge on Monday for a new trial, saying that the government’s focus on second-degree murder charges on which he was acquitted tainted the entire trial. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Prosecutors told a California federal judge Thursday that former Major League Baseball player Doug DeCinces and his associates can’t be acquitted because there’s more than enough evidence to tie them to trading on nonpublic tips about a medical device company, but the ex-CEO in the case said the feds were twisting facts. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Former Major League Baseball player Doug DeCinces asked a California federal court Wednesday to acquit him of insider trading charges, saying the government has provided no proof, before trial or during, that he profited from nonpublic merger tips about a friend’s medical device company. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Former Barclays PLC derivatives trader Stylianos Contogoulas was found not guilty by a London jury on Thursday of dishonestly rigging a key global interest rate benchmark to boost his profits, in a result that deals a major blow to the Serious Fraud Office. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A federal jury deliberating right now in the racketeering murder trial over a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts drug compounder will have to decide whether its head pharmacist had the intent to defraud or mislead — or else must acquit the defendant on some counts. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Should Judge Neil Gorsuch be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, there may well be a paradigm shift in sentencing law, policy and practice, particularly in the area of acquitted, uncharged and unproven conduct at sentencing. His analysis of plain error review in Sabillon-Umana influenced Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in Molina-Martinez last April, say criminal defense attorneys Alan Ellis and ...

Former Jefferies & Co. trader Jesse Litvak urged a Connecticut federal judge on Friday to acquit him on the one count of securities fraud for which he was convicted by a jury last month, arguing the government’s win was rooted to a “flimsy reed” of evidence. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Pennsylvania’s highest court said Tuesday it would not hear an appeal of a decision clearing a Clinton County newspaper of libel claims over allegedly defamatory characterizations of theft charges on which a former county commissioner was eventually acquitted. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))