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2 Dec 2009, 11:55 pm
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the committee’s chairman, said some of that research is impossible because courts are throwing out lawsuits that do not meet the higher pleading standard. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 1:35 pm by David Kravets
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) proposed sweeping digital privacy protections a year ago that would require the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud. [read post]
25 Nov 2022, 8:41 am by Chris Castle
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on its oversight of the Copyright Office (September 7, 2022), questions for the record were provided for the current Register by Chairman Patrick Leahy, two of which concerned the MLC. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 1:50 pm by David Kravets
And on Capitol Hill, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) has proposed legislation that would make the government’s position in the case before Garaufis the law of the land, weakening privacy along the way. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 4:26 pm by Lyle Denniston
  On June 14, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, introduced a bill to carry out the Vienna Convention for foreign nationals like Leal. [read post]
22 May 2014, 10:52 am by Bob Eisenbach
 Senator Patrick Leahy, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, had introduced a similar bill, S. 1720, the “Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 8:14 am by Michael Fox
" from a National Law Journal article discussing today's decision.2nd Update: I am not quite sure when Senator Patrick Leahy's statement on today's case was released, so I can't say how accurate I was on the timing, but I did nail the content pretty well:Today, five members of the Supreme Court struck a blow to our nation’s civil rights laws and the protections that American workers have long enjoyed under those laws. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:21 am by Joshua Gruenspecht
And a major bill by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sets standards for governmental access. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 9:00 pm
New speakers added to the program on Tuesday, August 26th are Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy; West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, Chair of the Democratic Governors’ Association; Iowa Governor Chet Culver; Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle; California State Controller John Chiang; Change to Win’s Anna Burger; AFL-CIO President John Sweeney; and Planned Parenthood of America President Cecile Richards. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 8:19 am
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)This summer, the number of data breaches at high-profile companies rivals only the surge in temperature. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 2:15 pm
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) about voter suppression policies, Barr said the “underlying problem” of low voter turnout really has to do with public disengagement with politics and that “voter turnout shouldn’t be artificially driven up without also addressing the issue of an informed citizenry. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 9:03 am by WIMS
Feinstein, Leahy Introduce Bill to Ensure Consumers are Informed about BPA - Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the BPA in Food Packaging Right to Know Act to ensure consumers know whether the chemical Bisphenol-A is used in food packaging. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 2:27 pm by Josh Blackman
But the effort did not work, just as an earlier attempt by Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who was then Judiciary Committee chairman, had failed. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 2:59 am
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), John Kerry (D-MA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR). [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 12:50 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
  Sponsored by (among others) Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, it empowers federal courts to, in effect, “disappear” web sites that are “dedicated to infringing activities. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 7:57 am by Epstein Becker & Green
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. recently introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, a bill intended to lessen the burden on age discrimination plaintiffs under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”). [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 6:44 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was next in line but he declined the nod in order to remain as chair of the Judiciary Committee. [read post]