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18 Dec 2009, 1:25 pm by Steve Hall
“I would be very hard pressed to appropriate these sums of money for this purpose at this particular point in time,” Feinstein said at the panel markup.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who is a sponsor of the bill, cited a New York Times editorial from yesterday that called on the Senate to move on the bill. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 1:48 pm by Mack Sperling
The Committee Chairman (Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, sitting in for an absent Senator Patrick Leahy) and the ranking minority member (Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama) opened the proceedings by observing the rarity of the Committee considering two nominees simultaneously. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 10:45 am by Greenberg & Bederman
Back in September, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced legislation into the Senate that would finally remove the federal antitrust exemption that insurance companies currently enjoy. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 8:00 am by John W. Arden
Khouri (nominated as Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission).Brill, who had served for many years in the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, was proudly introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 11:38 am by James Hamilton
House Passes Historic Financial Overhaul Legislation The House of Representatives passed historic legislation today overhauling the US financial regulatory system. [read post]
6 Dec 2009, 2:47 pm by James Hamilton
An earlier letter from Senator Patrick Leahy, author of the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower statute, to the Department of Labor emphasized that federal whistleblower protection extends to employees of subsidiaries of companies and that the DOL should not interpret the statute to exclude employees working for company subsidiaries. . [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 5:22 am
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) filed an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) (the “PPACA”) on December 1, 2009, that would repeal the exemption from federal antitrust laws for the health insurance and medical malpractice insurance industries. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 4:48 am
Deval Patrick (Contact) and Attorney General Martha Coakley (Contact) in February 2008, Leahy says the state's existing sex offender registration statute already complies with many elements required by SORNA. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 11:11 pm
Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley in February 2008, Leahy says the state's existing sex offender registration statute already complies with many elements required by SORNA. [read post]
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]
2 Dec 2009, 9:59 pm by Patent Docs
By Donald Zuhn -- On Saturday, in response to an Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times two weeks ago ("Inventing a Better Patent System"), the Times published five letters, including one from patent reform's biggest proponent, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee ("A Fresh Look at Patents and Innovation"). [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 12:55 pm
Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, says he has been working on ways to help states comply. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 8:24 am
Those comments had drawn fire from Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is a longtime advocate of the treaty, and expressions of concerns from anti-mine campaigners. [read post]
27 Nov 2009, 1:16 pm
Those comments had drawn fire from Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is a longtime advocate of the treaty, and expressions of concerns from anti-mine campaigners. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 6:36 pm
[With the Senate Judiciary Committee set to hold a hearing on restoring notice pleading next week, I have sent the following letter:] The Honorable Patrick J. [read post]
21 Nov 2009, 11:57 am
The proposal, championed by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, would repeal the WWII era McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts both health insurers and medical malpractice insurers from antitrust law. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 5:57 am
"This is a nomination that should be confirmed and should have been confirmed months ago," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), in a statement. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 4:19 am
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official website] said a Republican [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 7:06 pm by Ben Sheffner
Today MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and other congressional leaders on copyright issues, asking the lawmakers to to lend their weight to the fight for the agreement:MPAA letter re ACTA Glickman also addresses the issue of transparency, acknowledging that the process, which has been opened to select participants from industry and interest groups but not the… [read post]