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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee established in 1975 that oversees foreign investment in the U.S. economy. In 1988 CFIUS granted the Executive Office of the President nonreviewable authority to block foreign investments that may present national security concerns. In 2018 the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA). FIRRMA codified, among other things, CFIUS' jurisdiction over transactions arising from bankruptcy [...]

Over the last two years, much of the healthcare world has been watching the government's prosecution of Insys Therapeutics for its sales and marketing practices related to its Subsys spray. Subsys is powerful and highly addictive fentanyl spray (administered under the tongue) that was approved by the FDA in 2012 for the treatment of persistent breakthrough pain in adult cancer patients who were already receiving, and tolerant to, regular opioid therapy. On June 5, 2019, [...]

At the conclusion of a bankruptcy, the court typically enters an order discharging the debtor from personal liability for most pre-bankruptcy debts. This "discharge order" bars creditors from attempting to collect any debt covered by the order from the debtor personally. 11 USC § 524(a)(2). But after the discharge, creditors may be confused about the permissible post-discharge interactions with the debtor. So how does a court decide whether to sanction a creditor for collection activities that [...]