Tomorrow in a "closed" mark-up at 2:30 pm EST, the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee plan to slip into an appropriations bill a provision that will give the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the heads of other intelligence...
The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is the federal government's attorney charged with protecting federal employee whistleblowers. It took President Obama a long time to finally pick a nominee for this position. Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs...
Whether you are a corporate crime defense counsel, a worker thinking on turning in your crooked boss, or a whistleblower's lawyer - we recommend you pick up this book. But until you do, we have distilled it and come up...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on the right of criminal defendants to sue to get access to DNA that might prove their innocence. The case is Skinner v. Switzer, Case No. 09-9000 (3-7-2011). Before the...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument in a case that will decide if disclosures to the media can be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The oral argument will be on Friday, April 15, 2011, at...
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2. The famous quote conveys the idea that if you want to maintain power by suppressing the people, then lawyers are...
In April 2009, the Department of Justice (DOJ) served a subpoena on New York Times reporter James Risen. DOJ wants to know his source for a story he published in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration....
NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn was Christiane Brown's guest on The Solution Zone. We encourage you to listen to the archived show.
U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock issued an order yesterday that applies a ban on arbitration agreements retroactively. Congress enacted the ban as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act...
In a major victory for employees with any kind of discrimination or retaliation claim, the Supreme Court yesterday held that employers are liable when a supervisor is motivated by an illegal motive, then acts within the scope of authority on...
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