NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » DOJ: No Employee Furloughs Through September » Congress Urged to End Legal 'Chaos' Around GPS Warrants » Bryan Cave Ends Keystone XL Lobbying » Daily D.C. Lateral Roundup: Hunton & Williams » Supreme Court Urged to Curb Employment Retaliation Claims » In Dispute with Congress, DOJ Asks Judge to Keep Out The U.S. Department of Justice will not need to furlough employees this fiscal year after all, thanks to some moves from Congress and cost-cutting measures, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced to the agency late Wednesday. The budget actions the... Read More » Privacy experts and attorneys urged Congress to update laws governing protections for wireless customers' location data in criminal investigations Thursday, testifying on Capitol Hill that there is confusion among federal courts and other practical difficulties. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on... 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 | Bryan Cave has ended its lobbying for the Canadian company behind the $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline, the law firm revealed this week. The law firm filed a lobbying termination report with Congress on Monday, saying it finished its advocacy... Read More » Hunton & Williams has added a former FBI cybersecurity adviser to its Washington office. Paul Tiao has joined the firm as a partner in its privacy and data security practice. Previously, Tiao served as senior counselor to FBI Director Robert... 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 | Four years ago, a divided U.S. Supreme Court raised the bar for proving claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. On Wednesday, employers urged the justices to impose the same high standard for retaliation claims under the nation's major job bias law—Title VII—and under similarly worded laws. Read More » For months, the U.S. Justice Department has argued the judiciary should play no role in a spat between Congress and the department over access to internal documents about Operation Fast and Furious, the controversial gun trafficking sting in which federal agents allowed firearms to flow freely into the hands of criminals in Mexico. 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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