Giachino

<p>
</p><p>also Kirby atty
</p><p>===</p><p>2006 asbestos; <font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size="2"><b>Renee

    Giachino</b>, Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President of the
    <b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.legalreforminthenews.com/partners/cfif/cfif_res.html">
    <span style="text-decoration: none">Center for Individual 
    Freedom</span></a>, </b>talks about CFIF's involvement in the 
    current asbestos trust fund debate, and her perspective on the 
    importance of the FAIR Act.</font></p><p>---<br /><br/>

ur-TP

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<a href="http://cfif.org/v/index-mv1.php?v=183&nr=0">http://cfif.org/v/index-mv1.php?v=183&nr=0</a>

renee ~ AGW</p>

<div><span class="small">1. </span><a href="http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/286-president-of-american-association-of-neurological-surgeons-discusses-need-for-medical-liability-reform">President of American Association of Neurological Surgeons Discusses Need for Medical Liability Reform </a>

<span class="small">(The Issues/Health Care)</span></div>

<div>Recently, Dr. Tippett joined CFIF’s Renee <span class="highlight">Giachino</span> to discuss medical liability reform, the costs associated with practicing defensive medicine, and what doctors need to see in a health care reform ...</div>

<div><span class="small">By: CFIF Staff</span></div>

<div><span class="small">Thursday, 13 August 2009 02:03</span></div>

</fieldset>

<div><span class="small">2. </span><a href="http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/285-former-american-medical-association-president-counters-organizations-endorsement-of-government-run-health-care">Former American Medical Association President Counters Organization’s Endorsement of Government-Run Health Care </a>

<span class="small">(The Issues/Health Care)</span></div>

<div>Recently, Dr. Palmisano joined CFIF’s Renee <span class="highlight">Giachino</span> to discuss CPPR, why policymakers shouldn’t support legislation that will diminish care to 90 percent of our population, and why it’s ...</div>

<div><span class="small">By: CFIF Staff</span></div>

<div><span class="small">Thursday, 23 July 2009 01:58</span></div>

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<div><span class="small">3. </span><a href="http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/288-obamacare-101-how-president-obamas-healthcare-reforms-will-impact-patients-and-doctors">ObamaCare 101: How President Obama's Healthcare Reforms Will Impact Patients and Doctors </a>

<span class="small">(The Issues/Health Care)</span></div>

<div>... Ph.D., a Senior Fellow and the Director of Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress, is among the inquisitive. Recently, Dr. Howard joined CFIF’s Renee <span class="highlight">Giachino</span> to discuss the various ...</div>

<div><span class="small">By: CFIF Staff</span></div>

<div><span class="small">Wednesday, 08 July 2009 02:37</span></div>

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<div><span class="small">4. </span><a href="http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/53-employment-and-labor/294-big-labor-and-government-motors">Big Labor and Government Motors </a>

<span class="small">(The Issues/Employment & Labor)</span></div>

<div>... will jeopardize the automakers chances for revival. Recently, CFIF’s own Timothy Lee, a former private practice employment lawyer, joined Renee <span class="highlight">Giachino</span>, CFIF’s Corporate Counsel and Senior ...</div>

<div><span class="small">By: CFIF Staff</span></div>

<div><span class="small">Thursday, 04 June 2009 03:13</span></div>

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<p>BRIEF FOR APPELLANT

———————————

Reid Alan Cox, Of Counsel Jan Witold Baran

<b>Renee L. Giachino, Of Counsel Thomas W. Kirby*

CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM</b>

Caleb P. Burns

113 South Columbus Street WILEY, REIN & FIELDING

Suite 310 1776 K Street, NW

Alexandria, VA 22314 Washington, DC 20006

Telephone: (202) 719-7000</p>

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<p>Harry Rosenberg *Lead Counsel

Christopher K. Ralston

PHELPS DUNBAR, LLP

365 Canal Street, Suite 2000

New Orleans, LA 70130-6534

Telephone: (504) 566-1311

"The Center for Individual Freedom is an Alexandria, Virginia based U.S. lobbyist and policy advocacy organization founded on the principle of securing individual freedoms as embodied in the United States Constitution and state constitutions. It was founded in 1998 and tends to focus on neoconservative and Republican/libertarian[citation needed] values."

"Center for Individual Freedom</p>

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<p>Center for Individual Freedom has reported spending a total of $2,519,788 on independent campaigning through October 2010, with 100% benefiting Republican candidates."

The Center for Individual Freedom, represented by:

Jan Witold Baran, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding

Thomas W. Kirby, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding

Caleb P. Burns, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding

Reid Alan Cox, Esq., Center for Individual Freedom

Renee L. Giachino, Esq., Center for Individual Freedom

Christopher K. Ralston, Esq., Phelps Dunbar, LLP

Harry Rosenberg, Esq., Phelps Dunbar, LLP

Mary Ellen Roy, Esq., Phelps Dunbar, LLP</p>

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</li><li id="comment-2339" class="comment even thread-even depth-1">

<p>2. <b>The State of Louisiana;</b> Paul J. Carmouche, District Attorney, 1st Judicial

District; Robert Roland, Chairman, T.O. Perry, Jr., Vice-Chairman, John W.

Greene, E.L. Guidry, Jr., R.L. Hargrove, Jr., Michael J. Kantrow, Sr., Joseph

Maselli, Henry C. Perrett, Jr., Ascension Delgado Smith, Dolores Spikes,

Edwin O. Ware, III, of the Louisiana Board of Ethics and the Supervisory

Committee for Campaign Finance, represented by:

Raymond Gray Sexton, Esq., Louisiana Board of Ethics and its individual

members

Charles H. Braud, Esq., Office of the Attorney General

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Harry Rosenberg

<a href="http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_activities/litigation/louisiana-brief.pdf" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_act" rel="nofollow">http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_act</a>…</p>

<p><strong class="fn">Steve</strong>

<small>November 4, 2011 at <a href="http://www.slabbed.org/2011/11/04/a-man-can-not-serve-two-masters-a-pair-of-stories-to-illustrate-the-point/#comment-2339">5:59 pm</a></small></p>

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<div class="reply"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="http://www.slabbed.org/2011/11/04/a-man-can-not-serve-two-masters-a-pair-of-stories-to-illustrate-the-point/?replytocom=2339#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm(" div-comment-2339="div-comment-2339" respond="respond">Reply</a></div>

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<p>Let me cut to the chase—<b>Phelps Dunbar has attacked the Louisiana Ethics laws for the sole purpose of taking over the judical branch of government in the state</b>. More on this later…</p>

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<p><strong class="fn">Steve</strong>

<small>November 5, 2011 at <a href="http://www.slabbed.org/2011/11/04/a-man-can-not-serve-two-masters-a-pair-of-stories-to-illustrate-the-point/#comment-2340">2:50 am</a></small></p>

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<p>Group funding GOP campaigns had its origins backing <b>tobacco</b>

<b>Democratic Rep. Allen Boyd of Florida is the target of attack ads</b> paid for by the Center for Individual Freedom, founded in 1998 to counter restrictions on smoking.

October 24, 2010|By Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger, Tribune Washington Bureau

Reporting from Tallahassee, Fla. — Rep. Allen Boyd of Florida has marshaled some key advantages for his seventh reelection race: He has outraised his GOP opponent, and has the rare distinction of being a Democrat endorsed by both the National Rifle Assn. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

But Boyd also voted in favor of the healthcare overhaul this year, and like other Democratic incumbents now faces a barrage of attacks by little-known conservative groups funded by anonymous donors.</p>

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<p>The latest came last week from an organization called the Center for Individual Freedom, created more than a decade ago by former tobacco industry executives who sought to counter government restrictions on smoking.

Now headquartered in the top floor of a townhouse in Alexandria, Va., the center recently launched more than $2 million worth of ads in the districts of nine vulnerable Democrats, including Boyd, with more possible in coming days.

The group is no longer associated with tobacco or smoking.

<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/24/nation/la-na-hidden-donors-20101024" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/24/nation/la" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/24/nation/la</a>…</p>

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        <h3 class="mdOlive lineHeightTall georgia"><p>Mr. Kirby is a

senior litigation partner handling complex, policy-oriented trial and

appellate matters nationwide.  Counsel in more than 70 published cases,

he focuses on copyright, constitutional and election law. Notable

verdicts he has secured for his clients include one of the largest

statutory damages copyright verdicts in U.S. history, an award

recognized in the “NLJ 100.”  He has obtained a series of judgments

holding laws unconstitutional under the First Amendment and the Commerce

Clause. Following his successful constitutional challenge to a statute

limiting Internet speech, a federal judge said of Mr. Kirby, “There have

been few attorneys before the court as accomplished, trained,

experienced, intelligent and skilled….He is quite unique in his ability

to combine the theoretical and the clinical.”  <em>PSINet v. Chapman (W.D.Va.)</em></p></h3>

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      <ul><li>Appellate experience ranges from<b> constitutional issues</b> to

bet-the-company class action and commercial matters in the U.S. Supreme

Court and many federal and state appellate courts.</li><li>Jury trial

experience ranges from winning one of the largest copyright verdicts in

U.S. history to a "not guilty" verdict for a client wrongfully accused

of murder.</li><li>Recent matters include:<ul><li><em><font color="#FF0000"><b>Center for Individual Freedom</b></font> v. Madigan</em> (N.D. Ill. 2010) - Constitutional challenge to Illinois statutes burdening independent issue advocacy.</li><li><em>Lisa McConnell, Inc. v. Idearc, Inc.</em>

(S.D. Cal. and N.D. Tex (Br.)) - Won dismissal of copyright

infringement suit demanding hundreds of millions of dollars from

publishers of on-line yellow pages.</li><li><em>Warren Communications News, Inc. v. Warrantech Corp.</em> (D.D.C. 2009) - Half-million dollar copyright settlement for electronic newsletter publisher.</li><li><em>Center for Individual Freedom v. Ireland </em>(S.D. W.Va 2009) - Preliminary injunction striking down limits on speech near elections.</li><li><em>Center for Individual Freedom v. Corbett </em>(E.D. Pa 2009) - Judgment condemning attempt by Pennsylvania's Attorney General to suppress speech and awarding legal fees.</li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><em>National Association of Manufacturers v. Taylor</em> (D.C. Cir. 2009) - First Amendment challenge to lobbying disclosure statute.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><em>AFP v. Google </em>(D.D.C. 2008) - Defending right of Google News to use headlines, leads and thumbnail photos from copyrighted news sources.</span></li><li><em>Lowry's Reports Inc. v. Legg Mason, </em>221 F.Supp.2d 737 (D. Md. 2003) - Won a $20 million jury award for copyright infringement; appeal dismissed.</li><li><em>Newsletter copyright infringement cases</em>

- Many six-figure and seven-figure confidential settlements of

infringement.</li><li><em>PSINet v. Chapman, </em>2004 U.S. App. LEXIS

5599 (4th Cir. 2004) - Successful use of First Amendment and Commerce

Clause to overturn a Virginia statute restricting commercial Internet

speech.</li><li><font color="#FF0000"><b><em>McConnell v. FEC, </em>540 U.S. 93 (2003) -

Represented Senator McConnell and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a

First Amendment challenge to the McCain-Feingold Act.</b></font></li><li><em>Center for Individual Freedom v. Carmouche</em> (5th Cir.) - Constitutional ruling narrowing vague limits on election speech. </li><li><em>Alcohol Advertising Class Actions</em>

- Dismissal of all claims against American manufacturers and

distributors of <b>alcoholic beverages in six class action lawsuits

</b>alleging that industry advertising is to blame for underage drinking.</li><li><em>Homier Dist. Co. v. New Bedford, </em>2002

WL 1586996 (D. Mass. 2002) - Judgment that law favoring local business

violated the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause.</li><li><em>In re Sealed Case</em> - Defending a foreign telecommunications company in a grand jury investigation of alleged criminal price fixing.</li><li><a href="http://www.wileyrein.com/resources/documents/Updated%20Cases%20-%20Kirby.pdf">View a list of Mr. Kirby's reported cases</a>. </li></ul></li></ul>