District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals News

The PCAOB case involves not just an Appointments Clause violation - as Bader argues - but also a separation-of-powers problem because of the fact that the members of the PCAOB agency can't be removed except for willful, job-related misconduct related to how they enforce Sarbanes-Oxley, and then only by the SEC Commissioners as a whole.

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AOPA was granted permission Nov. 29 to participate as a friend of the court in an appeal by the city of Santa Monica, Calif., of an FAA decision that the city could not ban certain jet traffic at Santa Monica Airport.

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 D.C. Superior Court grand juror.

Add another court of appeal to the list of those supporting the NLRB's power to issue two-member decisions.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal addresses Westport's oath of office ceremony Monday night.

Suits stem from litigation in which large corporate taxpayers successfully challenged an excise tax on long-distance telephone service Shannon P. Duffy The Legal Intelligencer November 23, 2009 Dealing another major setback to the IRS in the ongoing litigation over how it handled a massive $8 billion refund for a now-abandoned telephone excise tax, ...

When federal authorities got a warrant to install an electronic tracking device to track a drug suspect, agents acted in an "abundance of caution," a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where the government is defending its ability to secretly follow suspects without judicial supervision.

Lawyers in Washington, D.C.'s Pershing Park wrongful-arrest cases say they have new evidence that former Metropolitan Police Department Chief Charles Ramsey personally ordered the roundup of protesters during the Sept.

As the U.S. electric industry is contemplating building new nuclear power plants for the first time in decades, the industry continues to be faced with uncertainty regarding the ultimate long-term disposal solution for the nation's spent nuclear fuel .

The Supreme Court on Monday spurned without comment an appeal by Native Americans challenging the Washington Redskins' team name as perpetuating offensive stereotypes.

Case summaries and excerpts from the opinions by U.S. District Court judges for the 30 terrorism detainees ordered released from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison and the eight denied release since late 2008: ORDERING RELEASE 2008 -Oct. 9, Judge Ricardo Urbina ordered the release into the United States of 17 Guantanamo detainees from a Muslim ...

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.

Umar Hamzayevich Abdulayev alleges that Judge Reggie Walton of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] abused his discretion in staying indefinitely his petition for habeas corpus after the Joint Task Force [official website] responsible for reviewing Guantanamo Bay detainees had approved him for transfer to ...

Brokers who provide investment advice would no longer be exempt from registering as investment advisers under draft legislation unveiled today by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. The 1,136-page discussion draft of financial reform legislation circulated by Mr.

Detainees should not be tried in the U.S. - a judge might order them released here.

The telephony issue that won't go away -- special access fees -- is slated to be examined by the Federal Communications Commission, according to an FCC notice.

The National Industrial Transportation League reported that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will review driver hours of service rules and issue a new notice of proposed rulemaking within nine months.

The FCC's BitTorrent order "shackles" Internet service providers in their attemps to thwart online piracy, leaves network operators guessing about what reasonable network management is, undercuts the agency's own network neutrality proposal and should be vacated by the courts.

AOPA on Oct. 29 requested permission from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to participate as a friend of the court in an appeal by the city of Santa Monica, Calif., of an FAA decision that the city could not ban certain jet traffic at Santa Monica Airport.