Well done Jon Ashley the Head of the Legal Data Lab and Research Librarian at the University of Virginia Law Library, we say.
Reuters reports..
A lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court seeks greater public access to non-prosecution agreements between the U.S. Justice Department and corporations that have faced misconduct allegations.
The public records complaint filed on Friday asks a court to force the Justice Department to release 12 case files from 2015 and 2019 in which the government signed non-prosecution agreements with an array of corporate defendants. The complaint also demanded a list of all corporate non-prosecution and deferred prosecution agreements since 2009.
Non-prosecution and deferred prosecution agreements are pre-trial alternatives to resolving alleged corporate misconduct. They often require a corporation’s voluntary and substantial cooperation with prosecutors, in addition to a company’s move to implement remedial measures addressing underlying misconduct. Non-prosecution agreements are not formally filed in court.
Plaintiff Jonathan Ashley, a business reference librarian at University of Virginia School of Law, created the Corporate Prosecution Registry website in 2017 with law professor Brandon Garrett, now at Duke University School of Law.
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