Preemption. NLRA. Experts discuss the foreseeable, aggravated and imminent danger needed to remove unions from protection under the National Labor Relations Act and to allow actions in state courts to proceed.

This program provides a thorough overview of the False Claims Act and its key provisions. Our panelists, Judge Brian Cogan (Eastern District of New York), Jamie Yavelberg (Director of Commercial Litigation Branch at the US Department of Justice), David Chizewer (Chair in the Litigation Group of Goldberg Kohn) and Scott D. Stein (Partner at Sidley Austin) discuss history, provisions, changes, prominent cases, as well as practical application of the law.

Criminal Law. Venue. Double Jeopardy Clause. Sixth Amendment. Experts analyze the Supreme Court’s holdings in important criminal law cases. In Smith v. United States the Court rules that double jeopardy does not apply to trials conducted in the wrong venue. Samia v. United States addresses whether use of a non-testifying co-defendant’s confession at trial violates the right to confront witnesses. Finally, they discuss what the dismissal after oral argument of In Re Grand Jury might mean to efforts to expand the scope of the attorney-client privilege.

Civil Rights. Title VII. §1983. Experts discuss the greater religious accommodation requirements for employers the Supreme Court outlines in Groff v. DeJoy, and the continuing availability of §1983 to enforce some private rights created by statutes adopted under the Spending Clause in Health and Hosp. Corp. of Marion Ctny. v. Talevski.