Mike Scarcella

April 08, 2011 | Legaltech News

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

November 30, 2009 | Law.com

Federal prosecutor Daniel Zachem has a lot riding on a pro se civil suit against him that alleges he participated in a conspiracy to violate the rights of a Washington, D.C., grand juror. But the suit has far-reaching implications for all federal prosecutors, so Zachem's lawyer, Crowell & Moring partner Michael Martinez, wants the U.S. Supreme Court to pick up the case and reverse a federal appeals court ruling this year that narrowed the scope of prosecution immunity from the suit.

By Mike Scarcella

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November 19, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Jamie Gorelick calls Merrick Garland the Democratic version of Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

By Mike Scarcella

6 minute read

November 02, 2009 | Law.com

Calling it the "only responsible choice," Justice Department officials are invoking the state secrets privilege in trying to thwart a suit that challenges the government's secret wiretapping program. The Justice Department on Friday night issued a statement from Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in which he said the suit, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, cannot move forward without jeopardizing national security.

By Mike Scarcella

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January 26, 2010 | Law.com

The DOJ's decision to appeal the dismissal of charges in the Blackwater manslaughter case is drawing rebuke from the criminal defense lawyers who represent the accused guards. In December, Judge Ricardo Urbina lashed the DOJ for its mishandling of the prosecution of the guards, who were charged in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad gunfight in 2007. But Urbina declined to dismiss the indictment with prejudice last week, which would have barred the pursuit of a new indictment against the guards.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

March 01, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Department of Justice has turned to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., in the hope of forcing the accounting firm to turn over tax-related documents that government lawyers say aren't protected by the work product privilege.

By Mike Scarcella

2 minute read

September 06, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal appeals court sides against the U.S. Department of Justice in upholding the public release of information about court cases in which the authorities used cellphone location data to track criminal suspects.

By Mike Scarcella

4 minute read

October 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Mike Scarcella

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January 24, 2011 | National Law Journal

When the Democratic Republic of Congo ran afoul of two court orders in Washington last year, a federal judge imposed a monetary sanction that doubled every month, topping out at $80,000 per week. The fine has now grown to more than $2 million, and the Central African nation is looking for a way out on legal and foreign policy grounds.

By Mike Scarcella

5 minute read

February 22, 2011 | Law.com

Lawyers for Exxon Mobil want the D.C. Circuit to absolve it from any liability stemming from human rights allegations that its security force -- foreign government soldiers hired to protect personnel and facilities -- brutalized a group of villagers in Indonesia.

By Mike Scarcella

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