Editorial: This newsletter is most remarkable in at least two aspects. First, it reveals that President Obama is nominating "two government attorneys" from agencies loyal to the Facebook Cabal as new Federal Circuit judges. Raymond T. Chen from the US Patent Office and Todd M. Hughes from the Justice Department. Notably, Hughes was with him at Harvard, along with the SEC Chief Counsel Thomas J. Kim who gave Facebook the unprecedented 500-shareholder exemption that opened the floodgates for billions in dubious Russian investments in private Facebook stock facilitated by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Second, it announces the retirement of Jan Horbaly, long-time Executive and Clerk of Court. Horbaly has served in his post for 15 years, since 1997. This inauspicious exist begs the question, "What is going on?" And, "Does Horbaly's misconduct in Leader v. Facebook have anything to do with this fade into the sunset without fanfare?"
Selected quotes from the Spring 2013 Newsletter, pp. 1, 2:
On February 7, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated two government attorneys, Raymond T. Chen and Todd M. Hughes, to Federal Circuit judgeships. Mr. Chen is the deputy general counsel for intellectual property law and solicitor for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He would replace Richard Linn, who took senior status in October of 2012. Mr. Hughes is the deputy director of the Department of Justice’s commercial litigation branch for the civil division. He would replace William Bryson.
Circuit Executive and Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly has announced his retirement. Mr. Horbaly served as Clerk of Court since 1996 and became the Circuit Executive when that position was established in 1997. Before joining the court, Mr. Horbaly was in private practice in Washington, DC. He specialized in Supreme Court practice, federal court litigation, and military law. He then became executive director of the Coal Commission at the Department of Labor, and served as Special Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States. After service on active duty as a captain in the U.S. Army, Mr. Horbaly entered the U.S. Army Reserve in 1976 and retired as a colonel in 2000. For his service, he has been awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star.
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