Andrew G. McBride

Andrew G. McBride (born June 26, 1960 in Paterson, NJ) is a partner at the law firm Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C.[1] and a former Supreme Court of the United States law clerk, Department of Justice official and Assistant United States Attorney.

Andrew G. McBride with Sandra Day O’Connor.
Andrew G. McBride with Sandra Day O’Connor.
McBride at event
McBride at Redskins game.

Early life and education

McBride grew up in Glen Rock, N.J. He played football for Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, NJ and was a National Merit Scholarship Program Semi-Finalist.

He earned his Bachelor's Degree magna cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross (1982), where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society. He earned his Juris Doctor with honors from Stanford Law School[2] (1987), where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.

He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Bork on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1987–88, a period that overlapped with Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination to the Supreme Court. He helped edit[3] Bork's 1990 book The Tempting of America.

From 1988-89, McBride clerked for the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. In the 1989 book Closed Chambers, author Edward Lazarus, who clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun during the 1988-89 term, named McBride as the leader of a "conservative cabal" of Supreme Court law clerks [4] that included Miguel Estrada, Paul Cappuccio, Thomas Hungar and R. Hewitt Pate. He arranged for Wiley Rein to host a 2013 book-tour event[5] for Justice O'Connor for her book[6] Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court.

Department of Justice

From 1989 to 1992, McBride served in the United States Department of Justice under Attorneys General Dick Thornburgh and William P. Barr. He worked on national security issues,[7] including the use of military tribunals to try terrorists and the capture and trial of Manuel Noriega.[8] He also argued the case of United States v. Alvarez-Machain, involving the kidnapping of Dr. Machain from Mexico to stand trial in the United States for the murder of Enrique Camarena (DEA agent). From 1992 to 1999, he served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the so-called "Rocket Docket".

McBride was one of the lead prosecutors on the 1996 case of the Sugar Bottom Murders, a triple-murder carried out by a Jamaican drug gang known as the Poison Clan.[9] The trial resulted in murder convictions for all four defendants involved, though the jury refused to give the death penalty.[10] He was also lead prosecutor in the Otto von Bressensdorf affair (1998), in which a German man claiming to be a baron and financier fleeced investors out of millions of dollars. Von Bressendsdorf and his wife were convicted of 27 counts each of mail fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering, and sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.[11]

Professional life

McBride currently chairs two practice groups at law firm Wiley Rein—the communications litigation practice group and the appellate group [12] —where he has been involved in multiple cases impacting the freedom of speech and privacy rights of telecommunications industry clients. In RIAA v. Verizon (2003), McBride won a ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejecting attempts by the Recording Industry Association of America to use Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoenas to obtain private subscriber data from Internet service providers. He argued the case against current Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr.. It was the first case in which now-Chief Justice John Roberts participated as a D.C. Circuit judge.[13]

In CTIA – The Wireless Association v. San Francisco (2012), McBride won a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit invalidating a San Francisco city ordinance [14] requiring radio-frequency emissions warnings on cell phones on the grounds that it violated commercial speech protections.

In the Supreme Court decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011), McBride, representing a group of law professors as amici curiae,[15] proposed the statutory theory under the Federal Arbitration Act that was adopted by Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurrence, providing the critical fifth vote for the Petitioner in that case.[16]

In September 2014, McBride was engaged by Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to represent his broadcast company, Red Zebra Broadcasting, which owns radio station WWXX-FM (ESPN FM 94.3).[17] While the station's Federal Communications Commission license renewal was pending, George Washington University law professor John F. Banzhaf III filed a petition with the FCC [18] to deny renewal on the grounds that the team's name is a "derogatory racist word," and that its repeated use on the air "is akin to broadcasting obscenity" in violation of federal law. In December 2014, the FCC released a decision dismissing challenges to Red Zebra Broadcasting’s license renewal application for the group’s Buckland, Virginia radio station. The FCC rejected petitions to deny WWXX(FM)’s license renewal based on the station’s broadcast of the word “Redskins” to identify the Washington Redskins professional football team. In granting the station’s license renewal application, the agency expressly rejected petitioners’ arguments that use of the term “Redskins” contravenes the public interest or otherwise violates the FCC’s rules, and dismissed claims that Red Zebra lacks the character qualifications required to hold an FCC license. [19]

McBride was recognized as one of the nation’s top 50 Litigation Trailblazers & Pioneers for 2014 by The National Law Journal—honorees were selected based on their “deep passion and perseverance in pursuit of their mission.” [20]

McBride has been quoted in The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Richmond Times-Dispatch on white-collar [21][22][23][24] and public corruption cases, and has appeared on PBS NewsHour, NPR, and C-SPAN [25] [26] discussing national security issues, including the use of military tribunals.[27][28]

References

  1. ↑ Wiley Rein LLP corporate website
  2. ↑ "Andrew Gerald McBride, Attorney". Lawyer.com. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ Bork, Robert, The Tempting of America (1990).
  4. ↑ Biskupic, Joan (March 4, 1998). Ex-Supreme Court Clerk's Book Breaks the Silence, The Washington Post.
  5. ↑ O’Connor Promotes and Defends Her Book at Wiley Rein (April 4, 2013), Blog of the Legal Times.
  6. ↑ Liptak, Adam (March 29, 2013). Summary Judgment: ‘Out of Order’ by Sandra Day O’Connor, The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
  7. ↑ Fisher, Louis (December 2, 2001). Bush Can’t Rely on the FDR Precedent, The Los Angeles Times.
  8. ↑ Barr, William P., and Andrew G. McBride (November 18, 2001). Military justice for al Qaeda. Washington Post
  9. ↑ courts/FSupp/968/1080/1947514/ United States v. Beckford, 968 F. Supp. 1080 (1997), Justia.com
  10. ↑ United States Of America v. Dean Anthony Beckford, a/k/a Smiles, a/k/a Smiley, a/k/a Daniel Davis, a/k/a Milo, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  11. ↑ Perella, Dominic (October 28, 1998). ‘Baron’ Sentenced in Fraud Case, The Associated Press.
  12. ↑ Andrew McBride corporate bio, Wiley Rein website
  13. ↑ Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. v. Verizon Internet Service, Inc.
  14. ↑ Albanesius, Chloe (May 8, 2013). San Francisco Drops Fight for Cell Phone Radiation Labeling Law, PC World
  15. ↑ Brief Amici Curiae of Distinguished Law Professors in Support of Petitioner
  16. ↑ AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (April 27, 2011)
  17. ↑ Holan, Mark (October 14, 2014). Dan Snyder’s Red Zebra Broadcasting Responds to FCC License Challenge, Washington Business Journal.
  18. ↑ Eggerton, John (September 2, 2014). Exclusive: Snyder's WWXX-FM License Challenged Over 'Redskins', Broadcast & Cable.
  19. ↑ Wiley Rein Client Red Zebra Broadcasting Prevails in FCC First Amendment Case (December 2014)
  20. ↑ 50 "Litigation Trailblazers & Pioneers" Recognized by ALM's The National Law Journal (December 22, 2014)
  21. ↑ McCartney, Robert (August 21, 2013). Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell sacrifices wife Maureen McDonnell in gifts scandal, The Washington Post.
  22. ↑ McCartney, Robert (August 9, 2014). In opening 2 weeks of McDonnell trial, prosecution case looks strong, The Washington Post.
  23. ↑ Gabriel, Trip (September 5, 2014). Virginians, Surprised by Ex-Governor’s Conviction, Ponder the Fallout, The New York Times
  24. ↑ Bowes, Mark (September 5, 2014). What Comes Next for Bob and Maureen McDonnell?, Richmond Times-Dispatch.
  25. ↑ Presidential War Powers (March 17, 2006), C-SPAN.
  26. ↑ Moussaoui Trial (March 22, 2006), C-SPAN.
  27. ↑ Gitmo Trial Begins, but Questions Loom Over Detainee Process (July 21, 2008), PBS NewsHour.
  28. ↑ Simon, Scott (July 26, 2008). Transcript: Military Tribunals Begin at Guantanamo, National Public Radio.
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