A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case that has been the center of a back-and-forth court battle for nearly a decade appears to have come to an end, giving chief compliance officers and in-house counsel at least some degree of finality regarding the jurisdictional scope of the FCPA.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...