State and local governments, including cities and counties, 在处理医疗保健和消费者欺诈问题上是否被赋予了独特的权力和责任, environmental hazards and other wrongdoing that impacts their citizens. When unfair, unsafe, or deceptive business practices jeopardize the public interest, 政府实体提起的诉讼可以确保重大的经济赔偿和禁令救济, prevent and deter illegal practices.

我们的公共客户业务致力于支持公共机构进行旨在保护消费者的调查和诉讼, patients, workers and public funds. We focus on cases that have a strong public interest and policy dimension, including representing Hawaii and the U.S. 在维尔京群岛的高田安全气囊诉讼中寻求民事处罚和赔偿据称受到伤害的消费者.

Motley Rice's Opioid Litigation Leadership

Motley Rice is working with multiple state Attorneys General, 地方政府和其他公共实体帮助调查和起诉阿片类药物流行病, which is reported to claim 175 American lives each day. The firm’s co-founder Joe Rice 在俄亥俄州北部地区协调的国家处方阿片类药物诉讼中担任联合首席律师, 并领导了一项2.6亿美元的和解谈判，解决了MDL对原告萨米特县和凯霍加县的首次领头羊审判. In addition, in 2014, Motley Rice的公共客户业务负责人琳达·辛格(Linda Singer)与圣克拉拉县和芝加哥市密切合作，在一系列指控药品制造商欺骗性营销阿片类药物的诉讼中提起了第一起诉讼, including Purdue Pharma, Endo, and Janssen, is the primary cause of the opioid crisis. Read more about this opioid-related litigation.

We take on cases that not only pursue recoveries, but aim to advance the law, make markets and market-players more fair, honest, and transparent, and help to save lives. 我们在复杂的诉讼和解决方案方面拥有丰富的资源和经验，可以协助政府律师解决他们的问题, efficiently and effectively.

认识到协助政府执法者的特殊责任, Motley Rice maintains the highest ethical standards. 我们认识到，我们的角色是支持而不是取代政府决策者.  该公司也不向客户或潜在客户代表的竞选活动提供财务捐助. 

Our Public Client Litigation Team

我们的律师对公共机构面临的挑战有第一手的了解. Linda Singer, head of the Public Client practice group, 将她的职业生涯奉献给了公共服务，并且是哥伦比亚特区的前司法部长.

Attorney Mimi Liu has worked as senior lawyer for a national public interest group, 在州和联邦的审判和上诉法院诉讼许多宪法民权问题.

With this experience, we bring not only a deep understanding of the legal issues, but of the tools and objectives involved in government enforcement. The firm’s diverse practice areas also bolster our Public Client work, lending knowledge in areas such as securities, antitrust, qui tam, pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices.

Our Experience

我们的公共客户律师在针对美国一些最大的金融服务和医疗保健公司的开创性消费者欺诈案件中具有丰富的诉讼经验, including:

  • Credit Bureaus:代表密西西比州总检察长处理对国家信用报告机构违反州和联邦法律的诉讼和调查，这些机构被指未能采取适当措施防止数百万消费者的信用档案中出现错误数据, jeopardizing their ability to obtain access to credit and employment. 
  • Nursing Homes:在诉讼和调查中代表几位总检察长，指控许多营利性连锁养老院的欺骗性营销和虚假声明，这些连锁养老院承诺并收取费用, but allegedly failed to provide, basic care to their elderly residents.
  • Financial Crisis协助民事执法部门调查导致2008年金融危机的欺诈贷款行为. 
  • Wall Street在第一波针对主要金融机构的调查中代表州检察长，这些金融机构涉嫌买卖欺诈和注定要破产的抵押贷款, recovering more than $60 million in relief.
  • For-Profit Colleges:为声称自己被连锁营利性大学欺骗的学生追回款项，并获得了先例般的禁令救济.
  • Worker Rights在对一家财富100强公司的调查中代表一个州，该公司涉嫌将其员工错误地归类为独立承包商, denying them key legal protections and avoiding state tax obligations.
  • Bank of America代表内华达州和亚利桑那州对美国银行提起的消费者欺诈诉讼，指控美国银行在大约50万笔抵押贷款服务中存在不公平和欺诈行为, securing financial payments, 抵押贷款修改和其他救济的承诺价值近10亿美元.
  • Hess Oil: Represented the U.S. 维尔京群岛对赫斯石油公司提起诉讼，指控其未能履行经济承诺并违反环境法, resulting in an $800 million resolution.

“Big Tobacco” Litigation

In the 1990s, Motley Rice co-founders Ron Motley (1944-2013) and Joe Rice, 该公司的许多律师代表24个州检察长和多个市政当局，在具有里程碑意义的诉讼中担任首席律师，这些诉讼要求烟草业对其对公众健康的影响负责. 最终，美国四家最大的烟草生产商达成了2460亿美元的总和解协议，向各州偿还了公共资助的医疗保健费用，并对烟草公司实施了广告和赞助限制. The agreement remains the largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history.

*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.