David Levin, Burning Man Barrister

Source: China Law Blog So I got an email from a client the other day, sending me a link to a blogpost, which in turn linked over to a “blacklist” (a word I hate and never use) of Chinese manufacturers. The client wanted to know what I thought of “such things.”  Never one to miss [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The Justice Department has won its bid to bar former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal from representing an electronics executive seeking to overturn his conviction in an important criminal price-fixing case. Read the rest of the story… Share/Bookmark

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, said people familiar with the matter, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered institution. Read the rest of the story… Share/Bookmark

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The feds are burned out with a medical marijuana grower that it suspects isn’t quite taking its bankruptcy case seriously. Read the rest of the story… Share/Bookmark

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today upheld the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — the one that requires states deemed to have historically suppressed minority votes to get approval from the Justice Department or a three-judge panel before changing voting procedures. [...]