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Nacchio Conviction Reversed
Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio’s conviction for insider trading has been reversed and remanded for a new trial by the 10th Circuit in an opinion available here.  Congratulations to Jay Brown, for having correctly predicted the outcome and the grounds on which the trial court was reversed...

Nacchio Reversed and Remanded for New Trial
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case against Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications International, Inc., who had been convicted of nineteen counts of insider trading...

US v. Nacchio (En Banc): The Defendant Speaks (In A Churlish Matter)
In a prior post, we noted that the Government was a bit churlish for throwing back at Herbert Stern, counsel for Defendant Joe Nacchio, quotes from one of his publications suggesting that he understood the need to request a hearing...

En Banc Hearing in Nacchio Case
The 10th Circuit heard en banc the appellate case of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio. The Denver Post here provides details of that argument. The panel had reversed and remanded the convictions (see here) with a statement that "Armchair economics...

Conviction Reversed (Almost)
Lessons from an important insider trading case, in which Joseph Nacchio formerly of Quest, gets a new trial, is the title of a potential review of this one, from the Tenth Circuit.

Conviction of Qwest's Nacchio reversed on appeal, could Enron's Skilling be next
Though technically not about sentencing, it is relevant to the white-collar sentencing world that (according to this WSJ report), "the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver has ordered a retrial of former Qwest head Joseph Nacchio...

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...