U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared ready to bolster the ability of employees to obtain accommodations at work for their religious practices in a case involving an evangelical Christian former mail carrier’s claim of discrimination against the U.S. Postal Service. Read more about the oral arguments.
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At an extraordinary hearing scheduled to take place this week in federal court in New Jersey, defense lawyers for two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions will have a chance to question DOJ lawyers and the company’s outside counsel from DLA Piper about whether the government “outsourced” the criminal investigation that led to the executives’ indictments. For the defendants, former Cognizant general counsel Steven Schwartz and former president Barry Coburn, the hearing is a long-shot bid to dispose of the DOJ’s entire Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case by claiming violations of their Fifth Amendment rights. But for the Justice Department, the hearing could have consequences well beyond this case, with DOJ lawyers telling U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty that the defendants’ “flawed and unprecedented” theories “would seriously hamper the government’s ability to investigate and prosecute corporate crime.” Alison Frankel explains the potentially dramatic stakes for both sides.
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