Mike Scarcella

July 26, 2014 | National Law Journal

A federal judge Saturday said the District of Columbia cannot prohibit the carrying of handguns for self-defense in public, a ruling that comes a little more than six years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck the city's firearms ban.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

June 25, 2014 | National Law Journal

Law enforcement must generally obtain a warrant before searching the contents of a cellphone that belongs to a person under arrest, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday in a major ruling on digital privacy.

By Mike Scarcella

4 minute read

May 19, 2014 | Law.com

A federal trial judge in Portland on Monday struck down Oregon's prohibition on same-sex marriage, adding to the number of judges who unanimously have declared similar bans unconstitutional.

By Mike Scarcella

2 minute read

May 12, 2014 | National Law Journal

A federal judge has refused to force a top government official of Equatorial Guinea to fly to Washington to contest the federal government's effort to seize a multimillion-dollar jet from him.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

April 30, 2014 | Law.com

On a night in June 2011, a man named Brian Stacy sent emails to a federal judge that a defense lawyer would later describe as "vile, crude, bigoted, racist, homophobic and offensive in many ways."

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

April 21, 2014 | Law.com

The identity of a manufacturer that fought under the pseudonym "Company Doe" to block the public from seeing a consumer product safety report could soon be revealed.

By Mike Scarcella

5 minute read

April 16, 2014 | National Law Journal

The sealing of the identity of a company that fought to block public access to a consumer safety report was improper, a federal appeals court said Wednesday in ordering the disclosure of its name and publication of case documents.

By Mike Scarcella

4 minute read

April 14, 2014 | Law.com

A federal securities rule that requires companies to publicly declare whether certain minerals used in products are "conflict free" violates the First Amendment, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Monday.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

April 14, 2014 | National Law Journal

A federal securities rule that requires companies to publicly declare whether certain minerals used in products are "conflict free" violates the First Amendment, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Monday.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read

April 09, 2014 | Law.com

The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans cannot shield private identifying information about two people who posted anonymous comments on its website about a corruption probe, a federal appeals court has ruled.

By Mike Scarcella

3 minute read