New Congressional Research Report Looks at Recess Appointments

AFTERNOON UPDATE New Congressional Research Report Looks at Recess Appointments The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of President Barack Obama's recess appointments to a federal labor board could have a "substantial impact on the future division of power between the president and Congress," according to a new Congressional Research Service report. Justice Dept. Fights Former Prosecutor's Privacy Suit U.S. Justice Department lawyers today asked a federal trial judge in Washington to shut down a former federal prosecutor's suit that alleges the government leaked information to the press about an internal attorney ethics investigation. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT NEW: 5K Run Added! Join the legal community in supporting the American Heart Association through Lawyers Have Heart 10K Run, 5K Run and 3K Fun Walk! Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Washington Harbour at Georgetown. Set up a team from your office and compete for bragging rights! Sponsorship opportunities still available! www.LawyersHaveHeartDC.org - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery Former Chief Judge of PTO Goes to Miles & Stockbridge The former chief administrative patent judge of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has joined Miles & Stockbridge's Tysons Corner, Va., office as counsel. D.C. Circuit Weighs Whether Judge's Instruction 'Corrupted' Trial Integrity Shortly before a Washington federal jury began deliberation in March 2011 on whether local police made an unlawful arrest, U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth gave the panel a "missing-evidence instruction." Referring to a police report mentioned in trial testimony, Lamberth told the jury that the document was never entered into evidence. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT 2nd Annual Patent Administrative Law Symposium Experts convene at American University Washington College of Law to analyze patent subject-matter eligibility today. The April 12th event will address the current conflicted state of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the patentable eligible exceptions for high electronics, software, biotechnology, and business method patents. 9am-5pm, CLE available by request. Click here to register. Former Arkansas U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln to Lobby for Wal-Mart Former Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) of Alston & Bird officially has entered the world of Washington lobbyists, picking up her home state's biggest company as her first client. Split Outcome to Contract Beef Means No One Gets Attorney Fees A federal appeals court nixed competing $2.7 million and $1.3 million attorney fee and cost requests in a contract dispute between beverage companies that generated just more than $1 million in judgments.		Get the BLT on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Available now in the App Store. If you have Twitter account, you can now follow NLJ Editor in Chief David L. Brown at twitter.com/davidlbrownjr. Follow him for links to key stories and updates from the NLJ newsroom. You can also track news on Twitter from the NLJ's Washington bureau at twitter.com/legal_times.
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