NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • DOJ Official Defends Financial Fraud Enforcement • Zuckerman Lawyer Counsels IRS Official in Congressional Probe • Legal Services Corp. Adds Sidley Pro Bono Chairman • Civil Liberties Group Asks Secret Court to Release Opinion • Appeal Filed by Lawyers Sanctioned Over Porn Lawsuits • Defense Building Mitigation Case in Boston Bombing Banks and other large financial institutions are not immune from federal prosecution because of the potential collateral consequences to the economy, a top U.S. Department of Justice official testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill. "Size does not equal immunity," Mythili Raman,... Read More » It's not every day a witness testifying on Capitol Hill invokes the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. But that's what IRS official Lois Lerner did this morning at the advice of her attorney, William Taylor III, a Zuckerman Spaeder white-collar... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Register Today: 10k Run & Walk Join the legal community in supporting the American Heart Association through Lawyers Have Heart 10k 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! - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery Click here | The head of Sidley Austin's pro bono and public interest law committee is heading to the Legal Services Corp. in Washington, the firm and the federal agency announced Tuesday. The LSC's board of directors yesterday unanimously approved Sidley senior counsel... Read More » Six years ago, the Justice Department fought a civil liberties group's effort to obtain documents directly from a secretive Washington court that hears government surveillance requests. The American Civil Liberties Union, the government said, was trying to make an "end... Read More » Lawyers under sanction for fraudulently filing dozens of copyright infringement lawsuits against people accused of downloading pornographic films have filed an appeal, as the attorneys who represented them before the sanctioning judge have disappeared from the case. Read More » Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have persuaded a federal judge to grant them access to prison documents and photos of their client, apparently to help them build a case mitigating against the death penalty. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Untimely petition for relief under National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act may qualify for attorney fee award if filed in good faith and if basis for claim is reasonable (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Part owner of British corporation was entitled to claim U.S. foreign tax credits for one-time windfall tax imposed by British government on privatized British companies (Thomas, J.) Read More » Michigan supreme court's rejection of due process claim challenging trial court's refusal to consider diminished capacity claim on retrial was not so lacking in justification as to justify federal habeas relief (Ginsburg, J.) Read More » Courts must apply Chevron deference in reviewing agency determinations as to scope of agency's jurisdictional authority (Scalia, J.) Read More » Bankruptcy Code term "defalcation" includes culpable state of mind requirement involving knowledge of, or gross negligence in respect to, improper nature of fiduciary behavior (Breyer, J.) Read More » Patent exhaustion doctrine did not apply to allow farmer to reproduce patented seeds by planting and harvesting saved seeds without patent holder's permission (Kagan, J.) Read More » | 
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