Significant Androphy Cases On September 22, 2022, Joel Androphy was recognized for his over twenty years of support to the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and its mission to fight fraud, waste and abuse in the Defense Contracting arena. The following cases highlight the significant contributions made by Joel and his team which led to this...
Joel Androphy will be virtually meeting with members of the National Italian American Bar Association in Rome, Italy on July 2022. He will also be meeting in-person in Naples, Italy, this September. The topic will be the current state of whistleblower laws, specifically the False Claims Act and fighting corruption. Welcome/Saluti: Francis M. Donnarumma, President of...
The DOJ filed a statement of interest on Wednesday in a suit being brought by four minor league teams jointly represented by Berg & Androphy and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP against MLB over the realignment of baseball’s minor league system that stripped 40 clubs of their big league affiliations. * * * The DOJ’s statement...
HOUSTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — DynCorp International, LLC and Damco U.S.A., Inc. have agreed to pay $25.4 million to resolve a False Claims Act suit alleging that the companies submitted false claims for payment to the Department of Defense related to freight forwarding services provided in Afghanistan as part of the LOGCAP IV program....
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the donation of the David Berg Papers, an important addition to the center’s collections on legal history and social justice. Berg is the founding partner of Berg and Androphy, with offices in Houston and New York City. In addition,...
Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees and Houston Astros must face lawsuits over their decisions to cut ties with minor league affiliates as part of a reorganization, a New York appeals court said Tuesday. The opinion by a five-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department affirmed rulings...
Nostalgic Partners LLC, owners of the Yankees’ former Staten Island affiliate, and the Tri-City ValleyCats, located in Troy, New York, both of which are represented by Berg & Androphy and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, sued MLB and its former affiliated big-league clubs in December 2020 and January 2021. The suits alleged the clubs breached...
Open Markets Institute argued in its amicus brief on Monday that the justices should do what the high court did in its 2014 decision in Lexmark International v. Static Control Components, a case involving standing to bring false advertising claims under the Lanham Act. There, the brief said, the court found plaintiffs have standing when...
The city of Oakland, California, is not giving up its fight over the loss of the NFL’s Raiders franchise, which moved to Las Vegas in 2020, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive antitrust claims against the team and the league. * * * A Ninth Circuit panel tossed the claims in December, saying Oakland...
Four minor league teams ousted by Major League Baseball urged a Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday to put the case on track for an appeal challenging the sport’s century-old antitrust exemption. * * * “Because MLB is terrified of the possibility of Supreme Court review, it half-heartedly pitches a hodgepodge of non-immunity defenses, hoping one...
