NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » Breaking Tradition, Obama Taps Non-Lawyer to Head FCC » Man in Landmark Supreme Court GPS Case Pleads Guilty » Law Firms Raise $3.6 Million for D.C. Civil Legal Services » DOJ Report Urges Prison Reform for Compassionate Release » D.C. Chief Judges Celebrate Law Day on Twitter » Electronic Arts Headed for Trial on 'Madden NFL' Claims There's something a bit different about Tom Wheeler, nominated today by President Barack Obama to head the Federal Communications Commission. It's not his work as a lobbyist or venture capitalist - rather, it's that unlike practically every other chairman in... Read More » Updated at 2:49 p.m. Facing his fourth trial, the man at the center of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on GPS tracking pled guilty today to a drug conspiracy charge and was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison.... 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 | Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit made an impassioned plea yesterday for law firms to take more responsibility for the welfare of civil legal services groups, lamenting the small percentage of the legal... Read More » A comprehensive review of the federal prison system's compassionate release program revealed a lack of standards for the evaluation of whether an inmate qualifies for a reduction in sentence, according to a U.S. Justice Department report published today. The department's... 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 | Summing up courthouse policy and practices in 140 characters isn't easy, but the chief judges of Washington's local courts gave it a try this morning as part of this year's Law Day festivities. Replying to tweets with the hashtag #AskTheCJs,... Read More » Electronic Arts Inc. faces trial next month in a case brought by a former college football player who claims its employees copied his source code to develop the company's successful Madden NFL football video games. 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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