Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a story in Mobile, Alabama's Press-Register on whether the federal Hatch Act may prevent a local district attorney in Alabama from running in a partisan election for…
—Professor Richard Painter spoke on Access Minnesota on the ethics of investment banking. The issues discussed on the radio show included: the history of federal regulation of banks, the difference between investment…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted by Senator Al Franken in a Senate floor speech in opposition to provisions of the JOBS Act that reduce investor protection by creating additional exemptions from the requirements…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in several news stories on the 29 Wisconsin state judges who had signed a petition for an election to recall Governor Scott Walker. Painter questioned why judges would expose…
—Professor Richard Painter was cited in a Thomson Reuters story on the appeal to the Second Circuit of an order by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff refusing to approve a settlement between the Securities and Exchange…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Politico article on an apparent violation of the Hatch Act by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius who endorsed a candidate for governor of North Carolina in…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted extensively in an ABC News story on the President Obama campaign's use of an official photo of the President and his family in the Oval Office. Painter observed that although…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an ABC News story on President Obama's combined official and political travel on Air Force One in the months leading up to the election. ABC News reported that: "Richard…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an editorial in the Washington Examiner on the Stop Insider Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act which is pending in House-Senate conference. The opinion…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., in an article in Capital, a new on-line news publication in New York co-founded by former…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an article in Politico on President Obama's Super PAC and plans for high ranking Administration officials, including some cabinet members, to speak at Democratic…