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Litigation
Food Litigation: The New Frontier
The success of consumer advocacy groups in having companies change their labels and campaigns based on unsubstantiated product health claims has emboldened the plaintiffs' bar. All indications are that this trend toward more challenges to health claims and more FDA enforcement of regulatory standards will continue unabated.
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Narrow, Don't Abolish, FCPA Facilitating Payments Exception
While a growing chorus is calling for the elimination of the "facilitating payments" exception to the FCPA, a solution involving an outright FP ban is not the better course. Aspirationally, it is preferable for companies not to pay FPs. But theory must sometimes accommodate to reality.
