Headlines • Comcast Didn't Discriminate Against Tennis Channel • Quattrone Financing Criminal Justice Research at Penn • Justices Side with Prisoners in Pair of 5-4 Decisions • Where Would Liability Fall in Boston Bombings? • Reckoning for Caseload Relief • Three Simple Ways to Connect • VOIR DIRE: A Place for Everything • Shield Law Not the Answer to AP Flap • Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag • EEOC Gets Tough With Companies on Genetic Privacy A federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday sided with Comcast in a dispute with federal regulators over the cable company's refusal to more widely distribute The Tennis Channel. Read More » The University of Pennsylvania Law School is launching a center dedicated to policy and research of the U.S. criminal justice system, with the help of a $15 million donation from investment banker Frank Quattrone and his wife Denise Foderaro. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Anti-Corruption Law Training in D.C. Learn from prominent government, private sector, and academic experts about U.S. and international anti-corruption law in this intensive 5-day program June 24-28 at American University Washington College of Law. Topics cover foreign and domestic bribery laws and compliance programs, public sector integrity, transparency, and oversight mechanisms, and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption implementation and peer review. LEARN MORE. | The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday broke a recent string of unanimous decisions by dividing 5-4 in two prisoners' cases. Is it an inkling of what is to come when June arrives? Read More » A panel discussion hosted by Edwards Wildman Palmer agreed that government agencies probably won't face much liability from those physically or fiscally harmed by the Boston Marathon bombings. But the race sponsors could prove vulnerable depending on the terms of their insurance policies. Read More » For Missouri's defenders, who last year handled 86,000 cases, timekeeping could prove to state officials — with solid data — that they're stretched too thin and need relief. Read More » LinkedIn has introduced some features that give users more opportunities to gain visibility and business. Read More » Plaintiffs attorney Max Berger can be ferocious in court, but you can see his sensitive side in his photography. Plus: Urban Dictionary in the courtroom, the real Slim Shady, and oratorious interruptus in this week's column. Read More » Vague talk about 'protecting whistleblowers' obscures the fact that some leaks are criminal. Read More » Prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act declined during 2012, even as 15 new countries were cracking down on such crimes involving their own government officials, according to a survey by TRACE International Inc. Read More » The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has started filing suits against employers for violating the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Companies need to get up to speed on GINA, ASAP. Read More » | 
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