In Leak Case, DOJ Considered Reporter 'Co-Conspirator'

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • In Leak Case, DOJ Considered Reporter 'Co-Conspirator' • Scalia Fumes Over Name of Telecom Trade Group • Former U.S. Attorney To Face Ethics Review • After Controversy, Ex-Congressman Registers to Lobby • Q&A: McKenna Long & Aldridge's Joanne Zimolzak • Judgments Pile Up In Leak Case, DOJ Considered Reporter 'Co-Conspirator' With the U.S. Department of Justice under fire for secretly obtaining Associated Press phone records, a newly unsealed court document in Washington revealed that federal prosecutors seized far more than phone records in one pending leak case. The Justice Department's... Read More » Scalia Fumes Over Name of Telecom Trade Group Add "orphan acronyms" to the list of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's pet peeves. Those are acronyms that used to stand for something -- like BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, or KFC, once Kentucky Fried Chicken -- but now... 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 Former U.S. Attorney To Face Ethics Review The U.S. Department of Justice's legal ethics division will look at whether a former U.S. attorney violated department rules when he disclosed information to a news reporter, an inspector general report released Monday states. Dennis Burke, who was the U.S.... Read More » After Controversy, Ex-Congressman Registers to Lobby Former Representative Ron Klein (D-Fla.) has registered with Congress as a federal lobbyist at Holland & Knight for the first time since he left congressional lobbying rolls in February 2012 amid controversy. Klein, a Holland & Knight partner who maintains... Read More » Q&A: McKenna Long & Aldridge's Joanne Zimolzak Joanne Zimolzak took over as the managing partner of McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington office in November. She not only oversees about 114 attorneys (according to our most recent Legal Times 150 survey) but also serves as head of the... Read More » Judgments Pile Up Congress approved legislation five years ago to raise the stakes in civil terrorism lawsuits and make it easier to collect on judgments. Since then, the dollar amounts have gone up, but judgments remain largely unsatisfied. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Bullock v. Bankchampaign, N.A. 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 » Bowman v. Monsanto Company 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 » Dan's City Used Cars, Inc. v. Pelkey State law claims stemming from storage and disposal of towed vehicles not preempted by federal motor carrier regulatory statute (Ginsburg, J.) Read More » McBurney v. Young 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 » Boyer v. Louisiana Read More » Moncrieffe v. Holder 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 »

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