{"id":5848,"date":"2013-03-02T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T01:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2013-03-02T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T01:56:05","slug":"federal-circuit-nominee-todd-m-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5848","title":{"rendered":"Federal Circuit Nominee Todd M. Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd M. Hughes was nominated for the Federal Circuit on February 7, 2013. \u00a0The Senate Judiciary Committee recently posted his committee questionnaire. \u00a0The questionnaire is available here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hughes-senate-questionnaire-public-final.pdf\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hughes listed his most significant litigation matter as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Haas v. Peake<\/span>, 525 F.3d 1168 (Fed. Cir. 2008) which concerned the interpretation of a statute governing disability compensation for Agent Orange exposure.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Mr. Hughes in the oral argument of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Haas<\/span> case here:  [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2007-7037.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Haas<\/span> opinion here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?q=haas+v.+peake&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,6&amp;case=7406104939389581664&amp;scilh=0\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd M. Hughes was nominated for the Federal Circuit on February 7, 2013. \u00a0The Senate Judiciary Committee recently posted his committee questionnaire. \u00a0The questionnaire is available here: [Link]. Mr. Hughes listed his most significant litigation matter as Haas v. Peake, 525 F.3d 1168 (Fed. Cir. 2008) which concerned the interpretation of a statute governing disability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}