Andrew G. McBride

Andrew Gerald McBride Jr. (June 26, 1960 – April 29, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as the Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

[7] He arranged for Wiley Rein to host a 2013 book-tour event[8] for Justice O'Connor for her book[9] Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court.

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.

[13] 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.

[16] In RIAA v. Verizon (2003), McBride won an early privacy 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; In CTIA – The Wireless Association v. San Francisco (2012), won a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit invalidating a city ordinance requiring radio-frequency emissions warnings for mobile phones.

[17] McBride, representing a group of law professors as amici curiae,[18] proposed the statutory theory under the Federal Arbitration Act that was adopted by Justice Clarence Thomas in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011).

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