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With no fanfare, the U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its controversial audit of 2,500 green card cases handled by the nation’s largest immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy. In June, the department issued a press release to announce its audit of the firm’s permanent labor certification applications based on information that the firm might be violating regulations. The firm sued the DOL in August, claiming that the audit had “inflicted massive injury” on the firm’s reputation.

The scope of a property owner’s obligation to make a public accommodation accessible to the disabled when alterations are made to the property was fleshed out Thursday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Reversing a lower court, the circuit said a resort in Montauk, N.Y., underwent significant enough renovations so that it might be required under the Americans With Disabilities Act to make changes to allow access to customers who use wheelchairs.

In October 2006, Gary Swanson, an executive with Hynix Semiconductor, was charged with joining a criminal conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory industry. The right trial technology made Gary Swanson, the last man standing in this litigation, a free man.

Corporate general counsel expect increased company risk management and more regulatory enforcement in the wake of collapsing financial institutions, such as Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers and American International Group. State government regulatory oversight will rise with more attorney general probes, and federal oversight will expand in step with the next presidential administration, said some general counsel attending the Argyle Executive Forum in Chicago this week.

Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, AIG: As Wall Street’s woes continue, Law.com presents ongoing coverage of the financial meltdown from across the globe, with updates on the firms handling the bankruptcies, the fate of in-house legal teams, the legal implications of the Fed’s fix and other ramifications for the law firms and lawyers involved. Check back for daily updates from all Incisive Media publications.

After a federal judge warned that “heads will roll” in the McAfee case, a Howrey counsel explained that critical e-mails in a stock option prosecution against McAfee’s former GC weren’t turned over sooner because contract lawyers at the firm had marked them “not relevant,” and the problem wasn’t spotted by more senior lawyers. The explanation came after a full trial day as the government kicked off its case against Kent Roberts. A Howrey partner characterized the omission as inadvertent, though defense lawyers from Cooley Godward Kronish expressed astonishment.