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C. Ryan Barber, based in Washington, covers government affairs and regulatory compliance. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @cryanbarber
January 11, 2016 | National Law Journal
Nearly seven years to the day after he was fired, a former federal prosecutor in Cleveland reached a settlement Friday with the U.S. Justice Department in which will he receive full back pay, an additional $805,000 and an assignment as a work-from-home pardon attorney through May 2017.
By C. Ryan Barber
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January 8, 2016 | National Law Journal
A Virginia federal trial judge weighs in on a question that has divided a pair of federal appeals courts: Does an employee need to directly contact the SEC to receive whistleblower status under Dodd-Frank? The answer, at least according to U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, is yes.
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January 8, 2016 | Legal Times
False-advertising claims brought by four former students of Thomas Jefferson School of Law can head to trial. Hillary Clinton talks SCOTUS appointments in a Boston Globe op-ed. And NPR profiles Monique Pressley, a Washington lawyer representing Bill Cosby. This is a news roundup from the NLJ and other publication.
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January 6, 2016 | National Law Journal
The country's largest student loan guarantor has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a case that began as a seemingly routine debt dispute but now grapples with a question at the heart of administrative law: How much deference should judges give to agencies' interpretations of federal regulations?
By C. Ryan Barber
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December 31, 2015 | National Law Journal
From net neutrality rules to the Sally Yates memo, federal agencies came out with major policy announcements and found themselves in high-stakes litigation in 2015. But by the year's end, there was too little time left to see how those policies would be put into practice, or how lawsuits with potentially vast ramifications would be resolved. Here are some of the top things to look out for in 2016 with four federal agencies: the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, Federal Communications Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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December 29, 2015 | National Law Journal
Several companies in the credit-repair services industry should not be allowed to keep their identities secret in their suit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency told a federal judge in Washington this month.
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December 29, 2015 | National Law Journal
A former federal prosecutor who challenged his dismissal from the U.S. Justice Department is entitled to return to his position and receive seven years' worth of back pay, the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled this month.
By C. Ryan Barber
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December 23, 2015 | National Law Journal
It is rare for Ajit Pai, a Republican on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, to deliver public remarks without referencing a song, film or TV show. At a forum in London earlier this year, he recalled a "Downton Abbey" scene in which Dowager Countess reacted to the newly-introduced telephone by asking, "Is this an instrument of communication or torture?" But one piece of pop-culture seems closest to his heart—"Star Wars."
By C. Ryan Barber
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December 18, 2015 | National Law Journal
Three years after requesting a reward for tipping off financial regulators, a whistleblower has asked a federal appeals court in Washington to light a fire under the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to force it to decide on the award application. In a petition filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Butzel Long partner Max Maccoby described the whistleblower's award request as the "tip of the iceberg" in a backlog that threatens to diminish the effectiveness of the SEC's compensation program for tipsters.
By C. Ryan Barber
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December 18, 2015 | Legal Times
Bloomberg reports on another stock conflict at the Supreme Court—this one involving Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. Pharma exec Martin Shkreli and Kaye Scholer partner Evan Greebel face securities fraud charges in New York. Squire Patton Boggs announces changes to its leadership in Washington. This is a news roundup from NLJ and other publications.
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