Ruling strictly on procedural grounds, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a challenge to the federal government’s seizure of millions of dollars in assets belonging to longtime publishers and journalists Michael Lacey and Jim…
Update, August 1, 2020: On July 28, the Ninth Circuit issued an order dispensing with the need for oral arguments in the case. It states: “The court is of the unanimous opinion that the facts and legal arguments are adequately…
In a May 19 filing at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, First Amendment attorney Robert Corn-Revere leaves federal prosecutors’ arguments in the Lacey/Larkin case looking like Steve Buscemi’s character in Fargo following his date with the wood chipper. In…
On March 30, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt federal prosecutors yet another setback in the government’s two-year-long quest to hold onto millions of dollars in publishing assets belonging to veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, former owners…
Note: Please see update below regarding Tuesday’s hearing. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments at 9 a.m. on July 9 in Pasadena, Calif., on a First Amendment challenge to the federal government’s…
“We are like the French troops in Russia when the snow started falling. The difference is we have winter coats and better lawyers.” –Michael Lacey, Backpage defendant, veteran newspaperman, and First Amendment stalwart A federal judge in Phoenix has rejected…
Attorneys for veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin, and their co-defendants in the Backpage.com case jousted with federal prosecutors in Phoenix over a government motion to disqualify a team of First Amendment lawyers from the prestigious firm of Davis Wright…
