NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » Obama Vows Closure of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp » As Mergers Decline, Antitrust Enforcement Climbs » Former Bush Administration Lawyer Asks Judge for Probation » DOJ Asks Judge to End Suit Over Afghan War Memoir » Q&A: Nixon Peabody's Jeffrey Lesk » Is Law Faculty Tenure In or Out? ABA Can't Decide President Barack Obama said he will again press to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, calling it "not something that's in the best interest of the American people." "I'm going to go back at this," Obama said at... Read More » The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today released their annual antitrust report, showing a slight decline in the number of mergers reviewed by the government last year but a jump in enforcement actions by the FTC. In... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Still time to become a sponsor! Join the legal community in supporting the AHA through Lawyers Have Heart 10K Run, 5K Run and 3K Fun Walk!Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Washington Harbour at Georgetown. Host a Go Red jeans day in your office and help the American Heart Association raise $1 million to fight heart disease!www.LawyersHaveHeartDC.org - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery | Federal prosecutors will not oppose a sentence of probation for a former George W. Bush administration lawyer who's charged in Washington with the destruction of government property. Prosecutors in December charged Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of... Read More » The Justice Department has renewed its effort to shut down a lawsuit in Washington over the scope of information a former U.S. defense intelligence officer can publish in a memoir about service in the war in Afghanistan. DOJ lawyers said... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Expand Your Knowledge & Network Experience intensive training that gives you a competitive edge and qualifies for CLE credit. Attend American University Washington College of Law's summer law programs in D.C. Learn the latest policies and network with experts in diverse fields of law including intellectual property, litigation, anti-corruption, hotel law, public policy, health law, environmental law, arbitration, and more. Click here | On days when he commutes by bicycle to the office, Jeffrey Lesk uses what he calls his Superman closet. In it Lesk, the managing partner of Nixon Peabody's Washington office, keeps suits, shirts and ties for a quick, post-shower change... Read More » The committee updating the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards hopes to wrap up its initial review by the end of 2013, but the group remains nowhere near a consensus regarding job protections for law faculty—perhaps the most controversial item on its agenda. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Virginia statute restricting public records access to Virginia citizens only does not violate either Privileges and Immunities Clause or dormant Commerce Clause (Alito, J.) Read More » 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 » | 
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