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Bruce Ericson, David Furbush & Paula Weber | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Rejecting contrary SEC regulation, Court holds that Dodd-Frank does not protect whistleblowers who report up internally but do not report out to the SEC.
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Kevin E. Noonan | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Although having built up a track record for several years and several thousand petitions and “trials,” inter partes review proceedings under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act are still relatively new.
The Trump White House and congressional Republicans claimed several victories throughout the year, from passing the largest tax reform bill in more than 30 years to rolling back Obama-era regulations and successfully confirming a host of judicial nominees.
Once again we look back at the continuing cavalcade of crooks, criminals, miscreants and, to put it kindly, morons the less intellectually gifted, who met justice face-to-face in 2017.
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Jonathan Forman, Mark Kornfeld & Frank Oliva| BakerHostetler
On November 28, 2017, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument on whether whistleblowers are entitled to protection from retaliation under Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Acts.