Headlines • Oklahoma AG Cracks Down on Post-Disaster Price Gouging • Law School Offers A Second Chance for Rejected Students • Bopp Warns of Consequences of Relaxing Gay Scout Ban • Vermont Becomes First State to File 'Patent Troll' Suit • Suit Alleges Law Firm Botched Legal Malpractice Action • Last Publisher Caves in Alleged Apple E-Book Scheme • Government Attacks Standard & Poor's 'Puffery' Defense • Judge Says Filing Errors May Prompt Review of 'Hundreds' of Cases • Bribery Prosecutions Revive Following 2012 Lag • 'Company Doe' Asks Fourth Circuit to Keep Records Sealed Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt is already cracking down on price gouging, identity theft and charitable fraud after a tornado destroyed an Oklahoma City suburb. Read More » The Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law has introduced "Admission Through Performance," allowing rejected applicants to enroll in a free, four-week course on the Federal Rules of Evidence taught by Duncan faculty. If the applicants do well, they can earn a spot in next year's 1L class. Read More » The Boy Scouts of America will open itself to a "veritable Pandora's box of litigation" if it allows homosexual boys to be scouts, warns a veteran Supreme Court litigator and special counsel to the Republican National Committee. Read More » Vermont has become the first state in the nation to file a so-called "patent troll" lawsuit, taking action Wednesday against a company that has written to a number of businesses claiming patents to technology that attaches scanned documents e-mails over company computer networks. Read More » A New Hampshire mortgage loan origination company and its president are suing Boston's Morrison Mahoney for legal malpractice for allegedly botching malpractice claims against other lawyers. Read More » The last of the five publishers sued for conspiring with Apple Inc. to fix the prices of electronic books has agreed to pay $75 million to settle cases brought by consumers and attorneys general in 33 states. Read More » Standard & Poor's Financial Services was aware that ratings it presented as objective and independent in fact were false and misleading and that the values it attached to the securities at issue were inflated, Justice Department lawyers argued this week. Read More » The chief judge of Washington's federal district court said he expects the court will have to review hundreds of arrest and search warrant dockets after learning this week that the clerk's office failed to publicly file an unsealed search warrant... 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 » A company using a pseudonym in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is fighting to keep documents under seal in a dispute rooted in whether the public should be allowed to see a consumer product safety report. Read More » | 
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