by Chaikin & Sherman | Mar 24, 2016 | Criminal Law
On March 18, a Florida jury sent a message that the American public will not tolerate invasions of privacy. The jury awarded Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea) $115 million in compensatory damages after the gossip website Gawker published a sex tape of the famous...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Mar 19, 2016 | Medical Law
The National Football League has finally acknowledged that there is a link between football-related head trauma and serious degenerative brain diseases like CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). The NFL’s executive vice president of health and safety policy, Jeff...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Mar 2, 2016 | Medical Law
A new report by ESPN’s Outside the Lines has suggested that the NFL, one of the largest funders of brain research in the United States, has worked to subtly influence research efforts and downplay the link between football and traumatic brain...
by Chaikin & Sherman | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
The law incentivizes whistleblowers (who are termed “relators” under the federal False Claims Act) to bring fraudulent activity to the government’s attention. Under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers can receive substantial monetary awards for reporting fraud that...
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