Mike Sacks

December 08, 2015 | National Law Journal

The lawyers representing the House of Representatives in its suit against the Obama administration over the health care law oppose House Democrats from jumping into the case as a friend-of-the-court in support of the government. The House Democrats' proposed amicus brief, filed Tuesday in Washington federal district court, urges the judiciary to stay out of a dispute between the political branches.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

December 07, 2015 | National Law Journal

Two veterans of the U.S. Supreme Court bar sparred on Monday over the validity of a 36-year-old precedent that allows states to be sued in other states' courts. Las Vegas-based inventor Gilbert Hyatt, represented by Farr & Taranto's H. Bartow Farr, is fighting to hold onto a million-dollar judgment he won in Nevada state courts against the Franchise Tax Board of California. Bancroft's Paul Clement, representing the board, spent the bulk of his oral argument saying Nevada should not have been able to haul another state's agency into its courts in the first place.

By Mike Sacks

6 minute read

December 07, 2015 | National Law Journal

Two veterans of the U.S. Supreme Court bar sparred on Monday over the validity of a 36-year-old precedent that allows states to be sued in other states' courts. Las Vegas-based inventor Gilbert Hyatt, represented by Farr & Taranto's H. Bartow Farr, is fighting to hold onto a million-dollar judgment he won in Nevada state courts against the Franchise Tax Board of California. Bancroft's Paul Clement, representing the board, spent the bulk of his oral argument saying Nevada should not have been able to haul another state's agency into its courts in the first place.

By Mike Sacks

6 minute read

December 03, 2015 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected an amendment to a highway funding bill that would ban gun sales to known or suspected terrorists in the United States. The vote came a day after a husband and wife opened fire at a state-employee holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and injuring more than two dozen others, and less than a week after a man killed three people and wounded nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

December 03, 2015 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected an amendment to a highway funding bill that would ban gun sales to known or suspected terrorists in the United States. The vote came a day after a husband and wife opened fire at a state-employee holiday party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and injuring more than two dozen others, and less than a week after a man killed three people and wounded nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

December 02, 2015 | Law.com

A federal trade secrets protection bill that's championed as a safeguard of innovation and criticized as potentially harmful to unwitting employees got its first look Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Defend Trade Secrets Act gives federal courts the ability to order "seizure of property necessary" to stop the dissemination of stolen trade secrets.

By Mike Sacks

5 minute read

December 02, 2015 | National Law Journal

A federal trade secrets protection bill that's championed as a safeguard of innovation and criticized as potentially harmful to unwitting employees got its first look Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Defend Trade Secrets Act gives federal courts the ability to order "seizure of property necessary" to stop the dissemination of stolen trade secrets.

By Mike Sacks

5 minute read

December 01, 2015 | National Law Journal

A top Obama administration securities enforcer clashed Tuesday with Google Inc.'s information-security director over a proposed email privacy bill that has found bipartisan support in the House and the Senate. Andrew Ceresney, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division director, wants administrative carve-outs to the bill. Google's Richard Salgado, the company's director of law enforcement, supports the bill as written.

By Mike Sacks

4 minute read

December 01, 2015 | National Law Journal

A top Obama administration securities enforcer clashed Tuesday with Google Inc.'s information-security director over a proposed email privacy bill that has found bipartisan support in the House and the Senate. Andrew Ceresney, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division director, wants administrative carve-outs to the bill. Google's Richard Salgado, the company's director of law enforcement, supports the bill as written.

By Mike Sacks

4 minute read

December 01, 2015 | National Law Journal

Virgin America airlines prohibited prominent Dallas lawyer Robert "Bobby" Abtahi from boarding a flight home yesterday from New York. (The airline has apologized for a "misunderstanding.") The target of a a FBI national security letter is now allowed to speak about the secret demand from the feds. And a look at the lawyers in the VW emissions litigation. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.

By Mike Sacks

4 minute read