John A. BOEHNER, Appellant,
v.
James A. McDERMOTT, Appellee.
United States of America, Intervenor for Appellant.
No. 98-7156.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued April 30, 1999
Decided September 24, 1999.
“Michael A. Carvin argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was R. Ted Cruz.”
Assisting Bolten on domestic policy at Austin headquarters is R. Ted Cruz, a former clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and an attorney at Washington’s Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, where he represented Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) in his breach-of-privacy lawsuit against Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) over the leaking of tapes of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s cell phone conversation.