Mike Scarcella

July 29, 2009 |

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

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April 14, 2010 |

By Mike Scarcella

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November 11, 2009 |

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

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December 16, 2009 |

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.

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November 20, 2009 |

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.

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June 28, 2010 |

Documents that a military equipment company turned over to the Justice Department in one investigation are at issue in a separate FCPA case.

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October 16, 2008 |

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit seemed to be leaning in favor of tobacco company lawyers, who challenged a federal judge's "grotesque" expansion of RICO laws in a 2006 decision.

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