NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » DOJ, Anheuser Settle Antitrust Suit Over Beer » U.S. Supreme Court Visitor Presses False Arrest Case » Study Finds Shared Blame for Judicial Vacancies » On Gideon's 50th, Lawyers Lament Lack of Access to Justice » ABA Descends on Washington for Lobbying Push » Weil Names New D.C. Managing Partner In a settlement that includes one of the largest divestures of all time, beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev reached a deal with the Department of Justice today to proceed with its acquisition of Grupo Modelo. But winning antitrust approval came at... Read More » A man who was arrested inside the U.S. Supreme Court last year for refusing to remove his jacket is fighting to keep alive his lawsuit in Washington federal district court. The high court visitor, Fitzgerald Scott, was wearing a jacket... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Setting an Immigration Reform Agenda American University Washington College of Law will host an afternoon conference on April 19 featuring a panel of immigrants' rights advocates, law professors, and policymakers who will identify what priorities the administration should set on immigration reform in the United States and how to implement the proposed reforms effectively. CLE credit is available by request. LEARN MORE | At almost every Senate judicial confirmation vote, both political parties unleash a flurry of statistics about the high number of vacancies on the federal court benches. Democrats use the numbers to paint Republican senators as obstructionists. Republicans use numbers to... Read More » The District of Columbia is home to what's widely considered the gold-standard of local public defender offices, but a panel of right-to-counsel advocates today challenged the courts and the criminal justice community not to grow complacent. "D.C. is a place... Read More » Despite American Airlines flight cancellations, suspicious packages in a U.S. Senate office building and a series of gun control legislation votes this week, the American Bar Association's annual lobbying spree in Washington went on. A group of 360 ABA members... Read More » Weil, Gotshal & Manges has a new leader of its Washington office. Steven Tyrrell is taking over as managing partner after the firm's former D.C. managing partner, Michael Lyle, and litigation partner Eric Lyttle announced their departure for Quinn Emanuel... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES 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 » Plaintiff seeking to initiate class action must present evidence showing that case may be suitable for award of damages on class-wide basis before class action status can be granted (Scalia, J.) Read More » | 
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