October 14, 2026 On May 13, 2026, a bicameral coalition of Democratic lawmakers—led by Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut in the Senate and Congressman Pat Ryan of New York in the House, and joined by several others—introduced the Let Kids Play Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that would effectively ban private equity from the
June 17, 2026 In a sign of the times, Union Pacific Railroad Chairman Jim Vena visited President Trump in the Oval Office to receive a blessing after announcing Union Pacific’s historic agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway to combine and create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. The visit was followed by Union Pacific donating several million
May 6, 2026 For more than 160 years, the False Claims Act (FCA) has been the federal government’s primary tool to combat fraud. In 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced $6.8 billion in recoveries driven largely by health care fraud cases. Now, the Trump administration is using the FCA to target what it
March 17, 2025
AJ Rudowitz (LAW ’17), Bryan Shapiro (LAW ’20), Sean P. McConnell, and Leigh M. Skipper discuss the growing relationship between college sports and private equity firms.
February 7, 2025
Allegra Abramson, postdoctoral fellow at Temple Law’s Center for Compliance & Ethics, discusses the current administration’s changing stance on cryptocurrency following the launch of President Trump’s meme coin.
July 26, 2023
Hannah Travaglini (LAW ’21) of Montgomery McCracken outlines the newly introduced tax regulations and deductions for the New Jersey cannabis industry.
Sonya Bishop (LAW ’18) of Baker & McKenzie co-authored an article with Ethan Kroll, Stewart Lipeles, and Julia Skubis Weber discussing the need for change in federal money laundering laws criminalizing tax practitioners from representing marijuana enterprises that operate legally under state law.
James Mangiaracina (’20) of Ballard Spahr describes the new amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) which includes a version of the “Establishing New Authorities for Business Laundering and Enabling Risks to Security Act.”
Three former Directors of the SEC Division of Enforcement, all Temple Law alumni, discussed developments from insider trading to crypto scams and the evolution of securities enforcement past, present, and future at a roundtable moderated by Professor Tom C. W. Lin.
Professor Jonathan Broder assesses the impact of the recent SCOTUS decision against the Environmental Protection Agency on the power of administrative agencies over regulated industries.