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As of October 2014, Cutler works as Of Counsel with The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich.<ref>[http://www.dshaklaw.com/#!bruce-cutler-esq-of-counsel/c1chj The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich–Bruce Cutler, Of Counsel]</ref>
As of October 2014, Cutler works as Of Counsel with The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich.<ref>[http://www.dshaklaw.com/#!bruce-cutler-esq-of-counsel/c1chj The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich–Bruce Cutler, Of Counsel]</ref>

==Legal Actions==

Case 15-632 in the Supreme Court was not by Bruce or [[Mike Pence]]. Pence did not vote for Obamacare when he was in the congress..<ref>https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/400315.</ref>On December 31, 2013 Jeffrey Cutler the newly elected tax collector of East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania went to Washington, DC and filed a challenge to Obamacare [Case 1:13-cv-2066]. Cutler had challenged the constitutionality of the Act, both on its face and as applied to him and his constituents. Cutler had asserted that the provision requiring individuals to obtain health insurance coverage or face monetary penalties violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and a previous Supreme Court Decision, "1947 Everson v Board of Education", and allows the government to favor one religion over another religion. Cutler sought a declaration that the Act is unconstitutional, invalid, and unenforceable. Cutler also sought to "rollback" the law to the status it had prior to 2014 on various grounds, arguing that the law now violates the Constitution by allowing unequal protection under the law (referring to the part of the law that allows people in certain states to keep their plan but others cannot until October 1, 2016, but only if the state insurance commissioner agrees with the president).<ref>http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Regulations-and-Guidance/Downloads/transition-to-compliant-policies-03-06-2015.pdf</ref> The court dismissed the case for lack of standing. Notice of appeal was filed by Jeffrey Cutler on July 25, 2014. On August 11, 2014 Cutler filed a notice of related case for case 1:14-cv-01287-RBW, filed by [[Patrick Morrisey]]. Muise and Yerushalmi from the American Freedom Law Center were contacted to handle the appeal. In August 2014, [[David Yerushalmi]] and [[Robert Muise]] took over the appeal of Cutler v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.On October 16, 2014 an injunction pending appeal was filed based on "unequal treatment under the law". AFLC's opening brief was filed on February 4, 2015. Oral arguments were presented by Muise on May 12, 2015.<ref>http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/recordings2015.nsf/F739B9F1F31FDDFA85257E43005AE4CE/$file/14-5183.mp3</ref><ref name="americanfreedomlawcenter.org">http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org/case/jeffrey-cutler-v-u-s-dept-of-health-human-services/</ref><ref>http://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2015/05/12/the-most-important-obamacare-case-youve-never-heard-of-n1997884</ref> On August 14, 2015 the United States government reversed the lower court decision on standing. On November 11, 2015 an 89-page petition was filed in the Supreme Court case 15-632. On January 11, 2016 the Supreme Court announced it will decline to hear the case, even though the United States Government declined to respond to the petition. On June 15, 2016 the petition was inserted as part of case 1:16-cv-1159, but the case was remanded back to Lancaster County by judge [[Sylvia Rambo]]. On July, 18, 2016 a notice of appeal was filed for case 1:16-cv-1159, USCA case 16-3164. On July, 28, 2016 a motion for partial summary judgement was filed in Philadelphia for , USCA case 16-3164 which among other things requests the court to “Order the United States Government to stop collecting or accessing penalties FOR FAILURE to comply with established tenets or teachings of such sect or division of ANY religion in violation of the U.S. Constitution amendment 1”<ref name="americanfreedomlawcenter.org"/><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgCle8F_zUk</ref><ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/04/could-this-be-the-case-that-ends-obamacare/</ref><ref>http://humanevents.com/2015/05/13/the-most-important-obamacare-case-youve-never-heard-of/?utm_source=hedaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl</ref><ref>http://thenewrevere.com/2015/07/exclusive-consensus-is-the-new-word-for-censorship/</ref><ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/14/jeffrey-cutler-pa-man-loses-court-bid-keep-obamaca/?page=all</ref><ref>https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/0/0FCDDBFAFAED9D9185257EA10052EE3B/$file/14-5183-1567865.pdf??/</ref><ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/obamacare_and_the_courts.html</ref><ref>http://www.pacer.gov</ref>
On November 6, 2015 the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] decided it will review the [[Contraceptive mandate]] of [[Obamacare]] by combining 7 similar challenges to the contraceptive mandate.<ref name="scotusblog.com">http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/court-to-hear-birth-control-challenges/</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/06/politics/supreme-court-obamacare-contraception-mandate/index.html</ref> The case is titled [[Zubik v. Burwell]] and the 6 other challenges include [[Priests for Life]] v. Burwell, [[Southern Nazarene University v. Burwell]], [[Geneva College v. Burwell]], [[Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. Burwell]], [[East Texas Baptist University v. Burwell]] and [[Little Sisters of the Poor]] Home for the Aged v. Burwell. Oral arguments in [[Zubik v Burwell]] was heard on March 23, 2016 by the [[Supreme Court]]. The [[Supreme Court]] has ordered all parties to provide supplemental briefs in the case. The case ended with all appeals court decisions vacated and all 7 cases being sent back to district court by an 8 to 0 decision in the [[Supreme Court]].<ref>http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/uent3shp/district-of-columbia-district-court/priests-for-life-et-al-v-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services-et-al/</ref> There have been over 100 lawsuits filed against Obamacare, but that information is being actively censored by [[Xenophrenic]] and others. Xenophrenic has also censored the words “by the Cuban military at the direction of [[Raul Castro]]" from the Wikipedia page of [[Rudolf Anderson]] (born in [[Greenville, South Carolina]]) , even though it is documented by [[Sergei Khrushchev]]. <ref>http://reformation.org/castro-out-of-control-in-1962.html,</ref><ref>http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2015/10/02/raul-castro-meets-with-bill-clinton-in-new-york-to-thank-him-n2060259</ref><ref>http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2016/02/an-act-of-terrorism-by-castro-abortion.html</ref><ref>http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3411659/posts?page=1
</ref><ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3344002/posts</ref><ref>http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/u-2-pilot-maj-rudy-anderson-the-only-american-killed-during-the-cuban-missile-crisis/</ref> <ref name="scotusblog.com"/><ref>http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/9429815-court-grants-all-seven-nonprofit-petitions-in-contraceptive-coverage-cas</ref><ref>http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/11/who-is-zubik-in-zubik-v-burwell-and-why.html</ref><ref>http://blogs.findlaw.com/supreme_court/2015/11/scotus-will-hear-all-the-obamacare-contraception-exemption-cases.html</ref><ref>http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/zubik-v-burwell/</ref><ref>http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1418.htm/</ref><ref>http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1453.htm</ref><ref>http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-110.htm</ref><ref>http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.asp</ref><ref>http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-101.htm</ref><ref>http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-105.htm</ref><ref>http://www.pacer.gov</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/04/13/more-from-michael-mcconnell-on-the-supplementary-briefing-in-zubik-v-burwell/</ref><ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/a-puzzling-order-in-a-us-supreme-court-case-on-obamacare/475986/</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 07:43, 17 September 2016

For the Utah politician, see Bruce R. Cutler.
Bruce Cutler
Born (1948-04-29) April 29, 1948 (age 76)
NationalityVereinigte Staaten
Alma materBrooklyn Law School
Hamilton College
OccupationTrial attorney
Known forRepresenting John Gotti and Phil Spector
Websitehttp://www.brucecutler.com

Bruce Cutler (born April 29, 1948) is an American criminal defense lawyer best known for having defended John Gotti, and for media appearances as a legal commentator.

Life and career

His father, Murray Cutler, was a former New York City detective who later became a criminal defense attorney. While being interviewed on the radio program Conversations With Allan Wolper on WBGO 88.3 FM, Cutler said that he was inspired by his father's pro-labor, pro-union loyalties to a FDR-style Social Democratic position.[1]

Cutler—and his brother Rich, a federal prosecutor in San Jose, California before joining the law firm Dechert in 2007—grew up in Brooklyn and were good athletes. They spent many summers at Camp Ma-Ho-Ge in Bethel, New York.

Bruce Cutler graduated from Hamilton College where he was captain of the football and lacrosse teams, and graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School. He worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), and became its top homicide prosecutor.

Cutler gained notoriety in the 1980s when he won three acquittals for Gambino Crime Family boss John Gotti (including one where at least one juror accepted a bribe in return for voting to find Gotti not guilty).[2]

When Gotti was indicted in 1990 for the 1985 murder of Paul Castellano and several other crimes, presiding judge I. Leo Glasser disqualified Cutler and two associates from representing Gotti. Citing evidence from wiretaps at Gotti's Ravenite club, prosecutors contended that Cutler and his colleagues may have known about criminal activity. Since the attorney-client privilege doesn't apply in these circumstances, prosecutors argued that Cutler was "part of the evidence" and thus liable to be called as a witness. They also argued that Cutler had represented other potential witnesses and thus had a conflict of interest. Glasser sided with the prosecutors, contending that Cutler was the "in-house counsel" for the Gambino family.[3][4]

Cutler appeared in the Robert De Niro and Ed Burns film, 15 Minutes, playing himself. He also appeared on Court TV, with attorney Ed Hayes, discussing criminal cases and current events on Cutler and Hayes, and on the CW network has his own TV show, Jury Duty. He also made two guest star appearances in the episodes "Drawing Dead" and "Open Secrets" of the 4th season of the CBS show Blue Bloods. He is godfather to Hayes' daughter, Avery.[5]

Cutler's autobiography was published in 2003.

Cutler had served as the lead defense attorney for Phil Spector[6] until August 27, 2007, when he announced that he was leaving Spector's defense due to "a difference of opinion between Mr. Spector and me on strategy."

In January 2012, Cutler announced his partnership with attorney Timothy Parlatore. The new law firm is named Cutler & Parlatore, PLLC.

As of October 2014, Cutler works as Of Counsel with The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich.[7]

Case 15-632 in the Supreme Court was not by Bruce or Mike Pence. Pence did not vote for Obamacare when he was in the congress..[8]On December 31, 2013 Jeffrey Cutler the newly elected tax collector of East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania went to Washington, DC and filed a challenge to Obamacare [Case 1:13-cv-2066]. Cutler had challenged the constitutionality of the Act, both on its face and as applied to him and his constituents. Cutler had asserted that the provision requiring individuals to obtain health insurance coverage or face monetary penalties violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and a previous Supreme Court Decision, "1947 Everson v Board of Education", and allows the government to favor one religion over another religion. Cutler sought a declaration that the Act is unconstitutional, invalid, and unenforceable. Cutler also sought to "rollback" the law to the status it had prior to 2014 on various grounds, arguing that the law now violates the Constitution by allowing unequal protection under the law (referring to the part of the law that allows people in certain states to keep their plan but others cannot until October 1, 2016, but only if the state insurance commissioner agrees with the president).[9] The court dismissed the case for lack of standing. Notice of appeal was filed by Jeffrey Cutler on July 25, 2014. On August 11, 2014 Cutler filed a notice of related case for case 1:14-cv-01287-RBW, filed by Patrick Morrisey. Muise and Yerushalmi from the American Freedom Law Center were contacted to handle the appeal. In August 2014, David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise took over the appeal of Cutler v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.On October 16, 2014 an injunction pending appeal was filed based on "unequal treatment under the law". AFLC's opening brief was filed on February 4, 2015. Oral arguments were presented by Muise on May 12, 2015.[10][11][12] On August 14, 2015 the United States government reversed the lower court decision on standing. On November 11, 2015 an 89-page petition was filed in the Supreme Court case 15-632. On January 11, 2016 the Supreme Court announced it will decline to hear the case, even though the United States Government declined to respond to the petition. On June 15, 2016 the petition was inserted as part of case 1:16-cv-1159, but the case was remanded back to Lancaster County by judge Sylvia Rambo. On July, 18, 2016 a notice of appeal was filed for case 1:16-cv-1159, USCA case 16-3164. On July, 28, 2016 a motion for partial summary judgement was filed in Philadelphia for , USCA case 16-3164 which among other things requests the court to “Order the United States Government to stop collecting or accessing penalties FOR FAILURE to comply with established tenets or teachings of such sect or division of ANY religion in violation of the U.S. Constitution amendment 1”[11][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

On November 6, 2015 the Supreme Court of the United States decided it will review the Contraceptive mandate of Obamacare by combining 7 similar challenges to the contraceptive mandate.[21][22] The case is titled Zubik v. Burwell and the 6 other challenges include Priests for Life v. Burwell, Southern Nazarene University v. Burwell, Geneva College v. Burwell, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. Burwell, East Texas Baptist University v. Burwell and Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged v. Burwell. Oral arguments in Zubik v Burwell was heard on March 23, 2016 by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ordered all parties to provide supplemental briefs in the case. The case ended with all appeals court decisions vacated and all 7 cases being sent back to district court by an 8 to 0 decision in the Supreme Court.[23] There have been over 100 lawsuits filed against Obamacare, but that information is being actively censored by Xenophrenic and others. Xenophrenic has also censored the words “by the Cuban military at the direction of Raul Castro" from the Wikipedia page of Rudolf Anderson (born in Greenville, South Carolina) , even though it is documented by Sergei Khrushchev. [24][25][26][27][28][29] [21][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]

References

  1. ^ Bruce Cutler on Conversations With Allan Wolper
  2. ^ Blum, Howard. Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob. New York: Pocket. ISBN 0-671-90015-3.
  3. ^ The Goodfather
  4. ^ Last Arrest
  5. ^ "Detectives' Lawyers Know the Spotlight". New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  6. ^ Lawyers Bruce Cutler and Ed Hayes Star in Mafia Cops - The Biggest Mob Trial in Years
  7. ^ The Law Firm of Dmitriy Shakhnevich–Bruce Cutler, Of Counsel
  8. ^ https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/400315.
  9. ^ http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Regulations-and-Guidance/Downloads/transition-to-compliant-policies-03-06-2015.pdf
  10. ^ http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/recordings2015.nsf/F739B9F1F31FDDFA85257E43005AE4CE/$file/14-5183.mp3
  11. ^ a b http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org/case/jeffrey-cutler-v-u-s-dept-of-health-human-services/
  12. ^ http://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2015/05/12/the-most-important-obamacare-case-youve-never-heard-of-n1997884
  13. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgCle8F_zUk
  14. ^ http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/04/could-this-be-the-case-that-ends-obamacare/
  15. ^ http://humanevents.com/2015/05/13/the-most-important-obamacare-case-youve-never-heard-of/?utm_source=hedaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
  16. ^ http://thenewrevere.com/2015/07/exclusive-consensus-is-the-new-word-for-censorship/
  17. ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/14/jeffrey-cutler-pa-man-loses-court-bid-keep-obamaca/?page=all
  18. ^ https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/0/0FCDDBFAFAED9D9185257EA10052EE3B/$file/14-5183-1567865.pdf??/
  19. ^ http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/obamacare_and_the_courts.html
  20. ^ http://www.pacer.gov
  21. ^ a b http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/court-to-hear-birth-control-challenges/
  22. ^ http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/06/politics/supreme-court-obamacare-contraception-mandate/index.html
  23. ^ http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/uent3shp/district-of-columbia-district-court/priests-for-life-et-al-v-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services-et-al/
  24. ^ http://reformation.org/castro-out-of-control-in-1962.html,
  25. ^ http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2015/10/02/raul-castro-meets-with-bill-clinton-in-new-york-to-thank-him-n2060259
  26. ^ http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2016/02/an-act-of-terrorism-by-castro-abortion.html
  27. ^ http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3411659/posts?page=1
  28. ^ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3344002/posts
  29. ^ http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/u-2-pilot-maj-rudy-anderson-the-only-american-killed-during-the-cuban-missile-crisis/
  30. ^ http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/9429815-court-grants-all-seven-nonprofit-petitions-in-contraceptive-coverage-cas
  31. ^ http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/11/who-is-zubik-in-zubik-v-burwell-and-why.html
  32. ^ http://blogs.findlaw.com/supreme_court/2015/11/scotus-will-hear-all-the-obamacare-contraception-exemption-cases.html
  33. ^ http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/zubik-v-burwell/
  34. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1418.htm/
  35. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/14-1453.htm
  36. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-110.htm
  37. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.asp
  38. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-101.htm
  39. ^ http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/15-105.htm
  40. ^ http://www.pacer.gov
  41. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/04/13/more-from-michael-mcconnell-on-the-supplementary-briefing-in-zubik-v-burwell/
  42. ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/a-puzzling-order-in-a-us-supreme-court-case-on-obamacare/475986/
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