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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update January 13, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, January 13, 2010.

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Breaking: Supreme Court Continues Stay That Blocked Televising Prop 8 Trial

"By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has just stayed or halted plans to transmit the video and audio of a high-profile federal trial in California to other courthouses around the country. In an unsigned opinion, the Court said the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California had not followed proper procedures when it changed its local rules to allow the broadcast of the trial on the Proposition 8 ban in California on same-sex marriage."

 

Report Finds Big Increase in SEC Cases in 2009

"Leaders of the Securities & Exchange Commission devoted much of 2009 to reorganizing and bolstering how the agency detects and prosecutes wrongdoing in the financial marketplace. According to an analysis released today by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the effort seems to be yielding results."

 

No Citizens United, But Sports Talk and a Friendly Gesture at Supreme Court

"Whatever writing and rewriting of the decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission may be underway at the Supreme Court, it's apparently not yet over. Another day has come and gone without a decision emerging in the closely-watched campaign finance case. And under the Court's traditional practices, the next chance for it to emerge is a week from today"

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Fighting the IRS

"National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, in her recently-released annual report to Congress, listed the 10 tax issues most litigated in the federal courts. Of the 923 cases involving those issues, taxpayers prevailed in whole, or in part, in 132, or roughly 14 percent."

 

Wilmer Adds Top DOJ Official Carl Nichols

"Carl Nichols, who spent four years in two high-level Justice Department posts at the end of the Bush administration, has joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's Washington office as a partner. He will work in the firm's litigation/controversy and regulatory and government affairs practice groups. "

 

Defense Contractor Refused to Rehire Veterans, Suit Says

"A pair of military veterans have filed suit against defense contractor Dyncorp International, alleging the company refused to give them back their jobs after they returned from National Guard duty in Afghanistan."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).