July 2, 2025, 11:35 a.m. | bgarrett
The Corporate Prosecution Registry is constantly being updated – and we have just completed the addition of number of cases from recent years. We have been updating the Registry and reviewing cases from 2023 (95 cases) and 2024 (91 cases), as well as adding cases with resolutions that have occurred to date in 2025 (31 cases). We thank Duke Law research assistants Jared Danaher and Gabrielle Stratton for their hard work this past Fall. These updates were conducted by searching federal district court dockets for entries involving organizational defendants, as well as press releases reporting ...
Jan. 10, 2022, 9:51 a.m. | bgarrett
It has been twenty years since U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) first published guidelines for the criminal prosecution of corporations, in the fall of 2019. American law on corporate criminal liability dates back to the 19th century. However, it was not until the end of the 20th Century that investigating and prosecuting corporations and their employees became a major feature of criminal justice in the United States, chiefly at the federal level. Billion-dollar fines are now routine, where they were unimaginable two decades ago, across a range of industries, from banking, to pharmaceutical ...
Jan. 3, 2022, 6:25 a.m. | jashley
Shortly before Christmas, the Dept. of Justice responded with a batch of documents in response to the suit we filed to obtain copies of a dozen NPAs and a list of all such agreements. Those agreements have been added to the Registry and include:
Cantor Gaming / CG Technology
Celerity Educational Group
Nov. 19, 2021, midnight | jashley Nearly a 1.5 years ago, Head of the Legal Data Lab and Business Librarian Jon Ashley filed a FOIA request for a dozen non-prosecution agreements and a list of all such agreements the Dept. of Justice has struck since 2009. The list is of particular importance to reveal both the scale of the DOJ's practices and the parties involved in these agreements. Without a list the American public has no idea how often NPAs, which do not have to be filed in a federal court, are struck. Given the DOJ's non-response to the FOIA request and with the help of UVA Law's First Amendment Clinic (run by the Rep ...New FOIA Suit
March 14, 2021, 8:05 p.m. | jashley
Over the years, practitioners and scholars have asked if they could be alerted when new material hits the Registry and we're happy to announce the creation of a new Twitter account exclusively for this purpose. Whenever new items are entered, a tweet including the company name, disposition, a link to the agreement (if any), and a link to the database record will be generated to keep users up-to-date. The feed can be found here: https://twitter.com/corp_pros_reg. ...