NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » U.S. Courts Announce Sequestration Plan for Defenders » Perez Challenged at Confirmation Hearing » Deceased Judge's Family Sues Law Firm for Infringement » White House Lawyer Tapped for State Dept. Legal Adviser » Halliburton Picks Patton Boggs to Lobby » AG Holder Defends DOJ Budget on Hill It's rare for a furlough announcement to be considered good news, but that was the case yesterday for the federal public defender office in Washington. The Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference, the body of judges that decides how the... Read More » Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez might be nominated to lead the Department of Labor, but the inner workings of Department of Justice took center stage at his confirmation hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill. Perez tangled with several Republicans on the... 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 | The family of the late Donald Duvall, former chief administrative law judge for the International Trade Commission, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Washington law firm yesterday accusing the firm of unlawfully taking credit for Duvall's work. Duvall's widow,... Read More » President Obama has nominated senior White House lawyer Avril Haines to be the State Department's legal adviser. If confirmed, she'll be the first woman to serve as the department's top lawyer, charged with providing legal advice on U.S. foreign policy... Read More » Patton Boggs has started lobbying for an oil services company that became a household name during the George W. Bush administration. Halliburton Co., which made headlines for its lucrative contracts during the Iraq War and for its role in the... Read More » Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. defended the U.S. Justice Department budget on Capitol Hill on Thursday, while expressing anger that the U.S. Senate blocked gun control legislation yesterday and vowing to keep pushing the White House's proposed gun control measures. 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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