Mike Scarcella

August 11, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for what Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer calls "a superstar" to lead the fraud section. With additional resources and the strong backing of Justice higher-ups for more fraud prosecution, the new chief should become the bane of defense lawyers' existence nationwide. This "rock star" who will bring "cases of extraordinary importance" -- Breuer's words again -- will also play a "key role" in developing Justice policy and fraud enforcement initiatives.

By Mike Scarcella

7 minute read

April 13, 2009 | The Recorder

A federal judge lashed the Justice Department for prosecutorial misconduct in its case last year against former Sen. Ted Stevens. The response in Washington has been mild — so far.

By Mike Scarcella

7 minute read

April 08, 2011 | Legaltech News

Lawyers representing researchers, pathologists, and women's health groups urged the Federal Circuit to uphold a ruling that said a genetics company's patents on two human genes are invalid and unconstitutional. The court narrowly assessed whether an isolated gene is substantively different from DNA itself, and looked at the potential consequences for the biotechnology industry.

By Mike Scarcella

4 minute read

July 02, 2009 | Law.com

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

September 21, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Arent Fox has been pulled into a $20 million wrongful death suit filed by the wife of a Washington lawyer who was found stabbed to death in the home of one the firm's former partners.

By Mike Scarcella

7 minute read

July 29, 2009 | Law.com

The grandson of a murdered Iranian general won a reprieve Tuesday in a Washington appeals court, which found his suit against Iran is entitled to additional hearings. The D.C. Circuit overturned the dismissal of the suit and told the lower court to take a look at French law. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the assassination of Gen. Gholam Ali Oveissi in Paris in 1984. Two decades later his grandson, Amir Reza Oveissi, sued the Iranian government in the U.S. for an alleged state-sponsored terrorist act.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

April 14, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Mike Scarcella

5 minute read

November 11, 2009 | Daily Business Review

A panel discussion among defense lawyers, prosecutors and academics addressed discovery obligations at the American Bar Association's office in downtown Washington.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

December 16, 2009 | Law.com

Atheist lawyer Michael Newdow, who has unsuccessfully challenged religious trappings of presidential inaugurations past, took his latest dispute -- this one involving Barack Obama's inauguration -- to the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday. Newdow and his fellow plaintiffs say the phrase "so help me God" at the end of the oath of office violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Newdow argued that he has suffered "stigmatic" injury. Atheists, he said, are considered "second-class citizens" in the United States.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

November 20, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Antoine Jones was the target of a cocaine trafficking investigation when federal agents stuck an electronic tracking device on his Jeep Cherokee, secretly following the vehicle's every move for 24 hours a day.

By Mike Scarcella

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