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D.C. Circuit Panel Vacates SEC's Proxy Access Rule
Posted on 26 Jul 2011 by Timothy Raub

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The Securities and Exchange Commission acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in enacting its proxy access rule pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a District of Columbia... Read More

Tags: The Business Roundtable , Administrative Procedure Act , Securities and Exchange Commission , Investment Company Act of 1940 , Securities Exchange Act of 1934 , Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America , Business Roundtable and Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. Securities and Exchange Commission , SEC , Litigation , Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act , Securities

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Government Employee Privacy Appeal
Posted on 5 Oct 2010 by Bajeerah LaCava

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) Government employee background checks are not only standard practice but are also constitutional, Acting Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal told the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 5 during oral arguments in an appeal by the National... Read More

Tags: secretary of Commerce , National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Robert M. Nelson , Neal K. Katyal , U.S. Department of Commerce , acting Solicitor General , Employment Law , Administrative Procedure Act , Homeland Security Presidential Directive Homeland Security 12 , California Institute of Technology , NASA , Privacy , Litigation , NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , lawsuit , Ninth Circuit , Fourth Amendment , identification , U.S. Supreme Court , National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Steptoe & Johnson: Supreme Court Sides With Landowner In EPA Order Challenge
Posted on 22 Mar 2012 by Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

By Amy M. Smith On March 21, 2012, the United States Supreme Court decided Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency , No. 10-1062 [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ]. The Court held that individuals may bring a civil action under... Read More

Tags: wetlands , Administrative Procedure Act , Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency , Johnson , Environmental Protection Agency , United States Supreme Court , Steptoe &amp , Litigation , Amy M. Smith , Clean Water Act , EPA

Supreme Court: De Novo Review Proper For New Evidence In Patent Cases
Posted on 18 Apr 2012 by Melissa Ritti

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on April 18 rejected a call by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) for stricter evidentiary rules and an elevated standard of review in challenges to adverse patentability rulings ( David... Read More

Tags: Butterworth v. United States , U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , BPAI , David J. Kappos v. Gilbert P. Hyatt , Dickinson v. Zurko , Administrative Procedure Act , Hyatt v. Doll , PTO , APA , Gilbert P. Hyatt , Patent , data compression , Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences , Litigation , McKart v. United States , U.S. Supreme Court