By: Patrick J. McDonnell A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle information and other documents for C ...

Richmond Times Dispatch "I'm aware of the problem," Cuccinelli, a Republican and former state senator who sponsored a bill changing Virginia's eminent domain statute, said in an interview Thursday. "It strikes a sensitive nerve for me because of the property rights issue, and the ...

The Virginia General Assembly has passed legislation increasing the maximum speed limit for certain rural areas from 65 miles per hour to 70 miles per hour. As has previously been posted (see Dinwiddie County Reckless Driving for 11 mph over Speed Limit), the speed limit is already 70 miles per ho ...

Senator Dodd just announced that efforts to broker a bipartisan reform bill in the Senate have sputtered and the Democrats will go it alone.  Does this mean that the Democrats will try to push a populist bill through by summer and paint Republicans as obstructionist and protecting Wall Street?  My g ...

I had the opportunity to present Treasury Inc.: How the Bailout Reshapes Corporate Theory and Practice at the American Association of Law Schools conference session on Business Associations in January.  It was an engaging experience that I found particularly fun as I am from Louisiana and used to li ...

I received word from one of the amicus defense attorneys involved in the case of O'Hara v. The First Liberty Ins. Corp. d/b/a Liberty Mut. Ins. Group, 2009 WL 3720649, 2009 Pa.Super. 214 (November 9, 2009, Judges Freedberg, Cleland and Kelly) that the Plaintiff filed a filed a Petition for Allowance ...

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering an audioconference entitled "The Bilski Decision: Expert Strategies to Manage Its Impact on University IP" on March 30, 2010 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EST). Patent Docs author Dr. Kevin Noonan, a partner at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP; Dr. Jim Bak ...

Full disclosure: this is all going to be as-I-think-of-it-opinion, I have no interest in interrupting the narrative flow by looking for links, and so I freely admit that it would be fair to discount or dismiss the results accordingly. The Democrats are in for a bad election cycle, to the point wher ...

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:reading guardian editor alan rusbridger's hugh cudlipp lecture: "does journalism exist?" http://j.mp/9SyoIJtwitter is working on technology to evade censors http://j.mp/aU0CHL10 things you want to know about joan rivers http://j.mp/aga8A ...

And the teabagging, bipartisan response in front of an all GOP audience is over. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell had a "black woman", "asian guy", and "military guy" behind him. The seating chart for this thing must have been six months in the making.