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Murad Hussain, AGG partner and chair of Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”) Compliance, was quoted in a Global Investigations Review article examining the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) use of Section 951 (known as “espionage lite”) to prosecute individuals accused of acting in the United States under the direction or control of foreign governments without notifying the attorney general.

Key Takeaways The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (“OPDP”) continues active enforcement through the issuance of Untitled Letters across multiple promotional channels, addressing both healthcare professional (“HCP”)-directed emails and direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) video content in its two most recent letters.

Event Details Schedule August 13, 2026 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT Add To Calendar Location George Mason University Johnson Center 4400 University Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030 On August 13, 2026, Murad Hussain, partner in AGG’s Healthcare, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Government Investigations, and International Trade practices, will deliver a lecture on access to legal services during the plenary session of the Virginia State Bar’s Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course in Fairfax, Virginia.

Footnotes for this article are available at the end of this page. Key Takeaways The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act of 2026 (“ROAD Act”) creates new statutory categorical exclusions from certain HUD environmental review requirements for qualifying urban infill housing projects. Eligible developments may benefit from faster environmental reviews and reduced administrative burdens.

AGG Real Estate and Affordable Housing attorney Nick Tsimortos authored an article for the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing (“CARH”) July 2026 Newsletter analyzing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (“ROAD Act”), which became law on July 11, 2026. Nick explains that the ROAD Act permanently authorizes the decoupling of Section 521 Rental Assistance (“RA”) from maturing Section 514 and 515 mortgages.

Key Takeaways The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) enforcement targeting digital health prescribing practices is intensifying, as reflected in the Done Global sentencing — the first criminal prosecution to charge telehealth executives with drug trafficking based on how their platform was designed and operated.

John Bennett, a partner in AGG’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Employment practices, discussed his recent move to the firm in a Law360 article. John shared that AGG’s full-service platform and strong reputation made it the right fit to better serve his clients. “I’ve always viewed the firm as really just having a great reputation — a certain amount of cachet, I would say, especially in the Southeast, but across the country,” he said.

Footnotes for this article are available at the end of this page. Key Takeaways DOJ’s first healthcare declination under its 2026 CEP provides the clearest roadmap yet for companies seeking to avoid criminal prosecution through prompt self-disclosure, full cooperation, meaningful remediation, and victim restitution.

Key Takeaways The Sixth Circuit clarified that hospice providers may qualify for Medicare’s statutory safe harbor when they reasonably and in good faith interpret Medicare coverage requirements, even if coverage is later denied. The decision rejects a blanket rule that knowledge of a LCD automatically defeats safe harbor protection under 42 U.S.C. § 1395pp, requiring individualized reasonableness analysis instead.

Key Takeaways The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit invalidated the NLRB’s “successor bar” doctrine, allowing challenges to union representation much sooner after many business acquisitions involving unionized employees. Employers acquiring unionized businesses may now have earlier opportunities to test whether a union still has majority employee support, although successor bargaining obligations remain unchanged.