Mike Scarcella is a reporter for The National Law Journal, an American Lawyer affiliate.

Seeking time to fight a court order in a subpoena enforcement dispute, lawyers for a Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu unit in China filed "emergency" papers in Washington asking a judge to postpone a hearing scheduled for next week.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2011 turned to Washington’s federal trial court to try to convince a judge to force the audit and tax firm to turn over information about its work for Longtop Financial Technology Ltd.