Mike Scarcella

May 17, 2017 | National Law Journal

A senior U.S. national bank inspector punished in the aftermath of the Wells Fargo sham-accounts scandal sued federal banking regulators on Tuesday for information about their investigation of him. The examiner, Bradley Linskens, who joined the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1993, filed the public-records lawsuit in Washington federal district court.

By Mike Scarcella

10 minute read

May 17, 2017 | National Law Journal

A senior U.S. national bank inspector punished in the aftermath of the Wells Fargo sham-accounts scandal sued federal banking regulators on Tuesday for information about their investigation of him. The examiner, Bradley Linskens, who joined the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1993, filed the public-records lawsuit in Washington federal district court.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

May 03, 2017 | National Law Journal

Brent McIntosh, the Sullivan & Cromwell partner nominated to be general counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department, reported earning nearly $2.9 million in income from the firm last year, according to his financial disclosure on file at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

By Mike Scarcella

23 minute read

May 03, 2017 | National Law Journal

Brent McIntosh, the Sullivan & Cromwell partner nominated to be general counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department, reported earning nearly $2.9 million in income from the firm last year, according to his financial disclosure on file at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

By Mike Scarcella

22 minute read

March 15, 2017 | National Law Journal

Brent McIntosh, co-leader of Sullivan & Cromwell's cybersecurity practice, was nominated on Tuesday to lead the U.S. Treasury Department's general counsel office. McIntosh joins a team of other attorneys from the firm who have taken or been nominated for key posts in the Trump administration.

By C. Ryan Barber and Mike Scarcella

20 minute read

March 06, 2017 | National Law Journal

Back in October, Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, wrote a 101-page majority ruling assailing the "massive, unchecked" power of the single director-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kavanaugh recently got a second chance to weigh in—weeks before the full D.C. Circuit will take a fresh look at mortgage lender PHH Corp.'s claims. Writing in an unrelated case, Kavanaugh predicted the D.C. Circuit—or the U.S. Supreme Court—will find the structure of the agency unconstitutional.

By Mike Scarcella and C. Ryan Barber

13 minute read

February 27, 2017 | National Law Journal

A Washington appeals court next week will take up a major business dispute over the circumstances in which two companies, working together, are "joint employers" whose business ties extend federal labor-law protections to all the employees.

By Mike Scarcella

11 minute read

January 12, 2017 | National Law Journal

A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to allow two participants in the Affordable Care Act the chance to intervene in a case to defend cost-sharing insurance provisions that U.S. House Republicans challenged as unlawful.

By Mike Scarcella

8 minute read

January 12, 2017 | National Law Journal

Walter Shaub Jr., the chief U.S. government ethics official, told a congressional committee in 2012 he was prepared to meet the challenges ahead. The Obama administration appointee likely had no idea then how prescient his remarks would be. Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, is now at the center of a rising dispute over the scope of Donald Trump's real and perceived conflicts of interest.

By C. Ryan Barber and Mike Scarcella

26 minute read

December 20, 2016 | The Recorder

An Alameda County court commissioner who faced possible disciplinary action for alleged inappropriate demeanor from the bench resigned from his post on Nov. 30, the state Commission on Judicial Performance said Tuesday in announcing the closure of a misconduct investigation.

By Mike Scarcella

6 minute read