NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » Fannie Mae Settles Securities Fraud Class Action » Labor Secretary Nominee's Vote Delayed in Senate » Law Firm Leader Q&A: Wiley Rein » DOJ's Top Environmental Lawyer to Step Down » CSX Hires McDonald Hopkins to Lobby » D.C. Attorney General Testifies in Evidence Dispute Updated at 3:33 p.m. A sprawling securities fraud class action against Fannie Mae and its former auditor, KPMG LLP, is coming to a close. The parties filed notice with a Washington federal judge late yesterday that they had reached a... Read More » A vote on Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez's nomination for Labor secretary was delayed again Wednesday, hours after Senate Republicans hinted that they will try to block him from being confirmed. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: WORK EVEN SMARTER: Labor & Employment Law Resource Center Access key arbitration decisions, renowned news coverage, full-text state labor and employment statutes and expertly authored treatises -- all on one platform -- to seamlessly conduct complex legal research. Recently enhanced to include thirty-nine labor and employment law treatises -- with links to primary source material and headnoted cases -- including Elkouri & Elkouri: How Arbitration Works. Request your FREE trial today and receive a complimentary copy of the 2013 Labor Outlook, crafted by Bloomberg BNA's expert editorial team. FREE TRIAL | It has been 30 years since Richard Wiley and Bert Rein opened up the law firm which bears their names, with 37 attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis. Today the firm is among the largest in Washington with about 275 attorneys.... Read More » After an action-packed tenure that included litigating the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Ignacia Moreno, the head of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, announced today she is stepping down June 7. On her watch, the 490-lawyer division won... 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, arbitration, and more. Click here | As Congress debates reauthorizing two major rail laws that expire this year, the East Coast's largest railroad operator has tapped the lobbying arm of Cleveland-based law firm McDonald Hopkins for help in Washington. CSX Corp. enlisted McDonald Hopkins Government Strategies... Read More » In an unusual scene, District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin Nathan took the stand this morning in Washington federal court to testify about his office's handling of a longstanding wrongful arrest case. During occasionally contentious exchanges, Nathan fielded questions about... 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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