Petitioner Nicole Dalmazzi was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. See United States v. Dalmazzi, ACM No. 38808, 2016 WL 3193181, at *1 (A.F. Ct. Crim. App. May 12, 2016). In January 2014, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations...
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In June 2016, Congress enacted the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (“PROMESA”) to address the dire financial crisis in Puerto Rico. Aurelius Investment, LLC v. Puerto Rico at 842. PROMESA created the Financial Oversight...
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The notorious financial accounting scandals involving Enron and Worldcom demonstrated the inadequacies of the self-regulatory reporting requirements governing many public companies. See Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting, 537 F.3d 667,...
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In response to a Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) enforcement action before an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”), Raymond J. Lucia and his investment company, Raymond J. Lucia Companies, Inc. (collectively, “Lucia”) challenged...
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Arthrex Inc. (“Arthrex”), a medical device company, owned the ’907 patent over a surgical assembly used to repair bone tissue. United States v. Arthrex Inc. at 1325. In 2018, Smith & Nephew, Inc. filed a petition for inter partes review of the...