Jan 28, 2026 | Administrative Law, Civil Rights
Claims of excessive force by federal immigration agents raise an immediate and difficult question: who can be sued? Individual agents often assert qualified immunity, while constitutional claims under Bivens have been sharply limited by the Supreme Court. In many...
Jan 19, 2026 | Civil Rights
After an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month, Vice President J.D. Vance gave a press conference during which he claimed that the officer has “absolute immunity.” Around the same time, the Department of Homeland...
Jan 18, 2026 | False Claims Act, federal investigations, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud
Last Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act report, announcing that FCA settlements and judgments had exceeded $6.8B in fiscal year 2025 (ending 9/30/25), and noting that the total is “the highest in a single year in the...
Jan 15, 2026 | False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On January 14, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that several affiliates of Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) “by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare...
Jan 13, 2026 | Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
As we have written about several times previously, billing Medicare for skin substitutes used in wound care has come under significant scrutiny by various federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG), and CMS and...
