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Investigation and Disclosure Best Practices

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 06.06.16

In Importance of Disclosures and Cooperation During and After Internal Investigations, Crowell & Moring attorneys review several recent regulatory changes and highlight the growing importance of targeted communication with the government before, during, and after internal investigations. Among other things, the article lists suspension and debarment statistics taken from the System for Award Management for the first half of fiscal year 2016 to demonstrate the importance of, and benefits that may be achieved from, targeted communication to the government by experienced government contracts investigations attorneys.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.01.26

Supreme Court Rejects “Mere Knowledge” Standard for Contributory Copyright Infringement in Cox v. Sony, Reverses $1 Billion Judgment Against Cox

On March 25, 2026, in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion verdict against Cox. The judgment was the result of a jury trial in which Sony claimed that Cox was liable for contributory copyright infringement because it knew that its customers were using its service to infringe yet did not respond with sufficient diligence to prevent that infringement....