NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » D.C. Circuit Won't Hear Challenge to SEC Resource Rule – Yet » Lawyers, Judge Share Close Ties in Jesse Jackson Jr. Case » In Boston Mobster Case, Defense Presses DOJ for Documents » Benin Mogul Tied to Alleged Murder Plot Hires Arent Fox » At FEC, Socialist Workers Party Donors are Anonymous » Cohen Milstein Partner Confirmed as EEOC Commissioner » Salvage Company Presses Second Suit Over Treasure » Obama Takes Recess-Appointments Dispute to Supreme Court » Incompetent Immigration Detainees Win Right to Counsel » Feinberg Vows to Speed Boston Bombing Compensation The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit put off - at least for now - reviewing a controversial rule by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would require oil and gas companies to disclose government payments. The... Read More » Former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.'s embezzlement case is proving just how small Washington's legal world can be. The first judge randomly assigned to the case in Washington's federal trial court has now recused himself. Today in court, the second... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Legal Interview Series at STC Bard Association Chair Abbe Lowell (Chadbourne & Parke LLP) kicks off the Shakespeare Theatre Company's new series, "Expert Witnesses" with former Senator and actor Fred Thompson. This will be the first of many discussions with prominent individuals (actors, authors) who have bridged the worlds of law and the arts. To purchase tickets, contact the STC Box Office at 202.547.1122 option 1 or Click here | Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger is battling to obtain U.S. Justice Department documents that he says will prove a now-deceased prosecutor gave him immunity. Read More » Updated at 3:52 p.m. While facing accusations of plotting to assassinate Benin's president and overthrow the West African nation's government, a Beninese businessman in exile in France has turned to former Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah) and two of his Arent... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Join us at BIO—Where Science Meets Business Connect with 16,500 leaders from 65 countries. Find your next business partner. Discover cutting-edge technologies. Join the global biotech community at the 2013 BIO International Convention, April 22 – 25 in Chicago. Click here | If you give money to the Socialist Workers Party, your name won't show up in Federal Election Commission records. The FEC on April 25 agreed to continue a long-standing reporting exemption for the party's supporters - all 118 of them... Read More » UPDATED AT 3:50 pm - The U.S. Senate has confirmed Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll partner Jenny Yang to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Yang, whose term will expire July 1, 2017, fills the... Read More » Updated 4:11 p.m. The salvage company that has been locked in a lengthy court battle with the Republic of Colombia over billions of dollars worth of sunken treasure has filed another suit in Washington federal district court. The suit is... Read More » The constitutional showdown over President Obama's recess appointment authority moved into the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday as the government asked the justices to review a federal appellate court decision invalidating three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. Read More » In the first fundamental expansion of the right to counsel in 30 years, immigrant detainees facing removal who are mentally incompetent to represent themselves will be entitled to legal assistance at the government's expense. Read More » Compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg runs his New York and Washington alternative dispute resolution shop Feinberg Rozen when he's not handling payouts to victims of natural or man-made disasters. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Where noncitizen's conviction for marijuana distribution offense did not establish offense involved remuneration or more than small amount of marijuana, offense was not aggravated felony under immigration law (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Natural dissipation of alcohol in suspected drunk driver's bloodstream does not by itself necessarily constitute exigency sufficient to justify warrantless blood test (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Presumption against extraterritorial application of U.S. law applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute, and nothing in that legislation rebuts that presumption (Roberts, C.J.) Read More » Terms of employer's ERISA plan take precedence over unjust enrichment principles with regard to employer's action under ERISA to recover funds advanced to injured employee (Kagan, J.) Read More » Mootness of plaintiff's individual claim precluded her prosecution of Fair Labor Standards Act collective action (Thomas, J.) Read More » Denial of post-trial request for appointed counsel no Sixth Amendment violation where defendant had earlier waived counsel three times (per curiam) Read More » | 
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