NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Federal Public Defenders Facing More Furlough Days • French Oil Giant Pays $398 Million to Settle Bribery Case • Q&A: Dechert's Paul Friedman • Stroock Opens Washington Office • Court: American Jailed in Cuba Can't Sue U.S. Government • Fired KPMG Partner Pleads in Insider-Trading Scheme A committee of judges tasked with deciding how the federal judiciary spends its money announced in mid-April that federal defenders wouldn't face more than 15 furlough days under mandatory budget cuts. Less than a month later, however, the committee alerted... Read More » UPDATED AT 2:30 pm French oil and gas giant Total S.A. today agreed to pay more than $398 million to settle charges that the company illegally funneled $60 million in bribes to an Iranian official to win oil and gas... Read More » When Dechert moved into its new office at 1900 K Street N.W. in January, Washington managing partner Paul Friedman traded in a traditional desk in favor of a square table with four chairs around it. Friedman said that it helps... Read More » Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has opened a Washington office, bolstered by the addition of two partners. Chris Griner and Robert Plaze join the firm from Kaye Scholer and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, respectively. Griner, who takes on... Read More » Updated at 12:35 p.m. An American citizen jailed in Cuba for his work as a federal subcontractor can't sue the U. S. government for negligence, a Washington federal judge has ruled. Alan Gross was convicted by Cuban authorities in March... Read More » A former senior partner at KPMG LLP in Los Angeles pleaded guilty on Wednesday to securities fraud related to an insider-trading scheme in which he fed information worth more than $1 million to a golfing buddy, federal prosecutors announced. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Actual innocence, if proved, will justify federal habeas review even procedural bar exists or if AEDPA statute of limitations has expired (Ginsburg, J.) Read More » Procedural default no bar to federal habeas review where state's procedural framework not likely to provide meaningful opportunity to raise claim of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal (Breyer, J.) Read More » 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 » | 
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