Mike Scarcella

1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Mike Scarcella |David Thomas |Jack Queen |Leslie Adler

(Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday struck down Donald Trump's executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's protections of free speech and due process, and castigated him for "settling personal...

1 week ago | finance.yahoo.com | Mike Scarcella |Tom Hals

By Mike Scarcella and Tom Hals (Reuters) -Microsoft has hired a law firm that is fighting back against the Trump administration's legal industry crackdown, dropping another prominent firm that chose to settle with the White House. Court documents showed Microsoft has hired Jenner & Block to replace Simpson Thacher in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit over its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. The filings did not give a reason.

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Mike Scarcella |David Bario |Rod Nickel

(Reuters) - Apple faces a possible criminal contempt probe after a U.S. judge said it violated an order to open its lucrative App Store to more competition and misled the court. Here is a look at how Apple got here and what comes next in the...

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Cynthia Osterman |Mike Scarcella |Tom Hals |David Bario

(Reuters) -Microsoft is switching the law firm representing it in a shareholder case, replacing one that settled with the Trump administration to avoid a punishing executive order with one that is fighting the White House.

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Mike Scarcella |Sara Merken

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Justice Department to mobilize law firms to defend police officers unjustly accused of misconduct free of charge, marking the latest effort to steer the work of private lawyers to his...