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“If every global bank in New York can be subpoenaed globally…”

Walter Olson — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:08:00 +0000

“…We’ll just do our business in London.”

Tags: banks, extraterritoriality, subpoenas

New at Point of Law

Walter Olson — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:28:54 +0000

Things you’re missing if you aren’t checking out my other site:

Iowa federal judge hits EEOC with $4.5 million attorney fee award over “sue first, ask questions later” litigation strategy;
Jim Copland continues his weeklong blogging of Trial Lawyers Inc.: K Street with posts on the plaintiff’s bar’s Washington, D.C. presence (with discussion of CPSIA, employment litigation, qui tam, and arbitration, among other topics); state lobbying; and public relations, including legal academics, the media, and consumer groups;
Hmm: House committee conveniently subpoenas Toyota defense documents that plaintiffs had been seeking to unseal (and more on Toyota);
Obama administration plans crackdown to make more employers reclassify independent contractors as employees;
Trial bar stirs pot in Florida politics;
Feds swoop down on 2003 settlement to demand that parties reimburse Medicare as provided by retroactive law.

Tags: arbitration, CPSIA, CPSIA and Congress, EEOC, Florida, loser pays, Medicare, on other blogs, politics, qui tam, retroactive, subpoenas, Toyota, trial lawyer earmarks

TSA aims subpoena at bloggers, seizes laptop

Walter Olson — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:04:31 +0000

TSA can take decisive action after all, when bloggers as opposed to terrorists are the targets: “Two East Coast travel bloggers who posted a sensitive airport security memo on their Internet sites have been subpoenaed by federal officials trying to find out who sent them the document. One of the writers, Steve Frischling, also had his laptop seized by agents looking for evidence of his source for the Transportation Security Administration directive.” [Alison Grant, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Elliott.org; BoingBoing (Frischling got laptop back)(& welcome Coyote readers)]

More: Via Instapundit, a contrarian view from Christopher Fotos at Aviation Week, and coverage from Wired “Threat Level”. Update: TSA backs off [AP/Law.com, BoingBoing]

Tags: bloggers and the law, subpoenas, terrorism

“Prosecutor Pays a Price for Chasing Commenters”

Walter Olson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:57:35 +0000

An Oklahoma district attorney issues a subpoena in search of the identities of critical online commenters. Events don’t develop in the way he was hoping, though, and he’ll be leaving office at the end of his term. [Eric Robinson, Citizen Media Law; McAlester, Okla.]

Tags: Oklahoma, online speech, prosecutorial abuse, subpoenas

Waxman, Stupak demand info from health insurers

Walter Olson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:31:43 +0000

A compulsory subpoena could follow if they don’t fork over information on “compensation of highly paid employees” and “expenses stemming from any event held outside company facilities in the past 2 1/2 years”, among other topics. As AP notes, industries that vocally support, rather than oppose, health care reform aren’t targets of the investigation. More: Politico.

Tags: Henry Waxman, insurers, subpoenas, U.S. House of Representatives

Former employee says she wasn’t paid

Walter Olson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:45:54 +0000

Rosalie Farnsworth made various charges against the publisher of a defunct South Florida magazine; now he says he’s suing her for defamation. [Broward Palm Beach New Times, its earlier report]

Tags: Florida, libel slander and defamation, publishers, subpoenas

Mortgage Implode-O-Meter online speech case, cont’d

Walter Olson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:12 +0000

Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have submitted an amicus brief in the case, urging the New Hampshire Supreme Court to uphold the website’s position on First Amendment grounds. The popular site Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter had published a New Hampshire Banking Department document containing information about a private company; that company proceeded to sue the site demanding that the document be taken down, and also demanded discovery of how the document had come into the site’s possession. Earlier here.

Tags: mortgages, New Hampshire, online speech, subpoenas

Intimidation through subpoena

Walter Olson — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:33:09 +0000

Lawyers know how to do it, but then, so do members of Congress.

Tags: Barney Frank, subpoenas, U.S. House of Representatives

Online commentary not so anonymous

Walter Olson — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:59:40 +0000

A New Hampshire court has ordered a well-known mortgage-crisis-watchdog website, Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter, to disclose confidential sources and the identity of an anonymous commenter [Sam Bayard, Citizen Media Law] The order has been stayed pending appeal.

Tags: mortgages, online speech, subpoenas

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