NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » Small Business Owners Sue IRS Over Obamacare » D.C. Legal Community Remembers Edward Levi » 'Coercive' Jury Instruction Means New Trial in Murder Case » Court Strikes 1892 Case Law on Contracts with Mentally Ill » Alleged Boston Marathon Conspirators Face Judge » Wells Fargo Settles Ponzi-Related Lawsuit for $105M Objecting to what they term an "Obamacare power grab," a group of small business owners and individuals in six states filed suit today against the Internal Revenue Service over a rule that expands health insurance subsidies. The plaintiffs say the... Read More » The late Attorney General Edward Levi used to write his speeches on a typewriter, two fingers on each hand pecking away at the keys. His addresses, which are collected in the new book "Restoring Justice," were the focus of a... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Still time to become a sponsor! Join the legal community in supporting the AHA through Lawyers Have Heart 10K Run, 5K Run and 3K Fun Walk!Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Washington Harbour at Georgetown. Host a Go Red jeans day in your office and help the American Heart Association raise $1 million to fight heart disease!www.LawyersHaveHeartDC.org - Presented in partnership by McDermott Will & Emery | A man convicted of second-degree murder in a 2005 shooting will get a new trial after the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled today that the trial judge gave an "impermissibly coercive" instruction to the jury. After a jury... Read More » Replacing precedent dating back to 1892, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled today that contracts entered into with mentally incapacitated individuals will no longer be considered automatically void. Under the new standard, those contracts will be voidable, as... 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, environmental law, arbitration, and more. Click here | Three men charged with federal crimes for allegedly helping Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared during two brief Boston federal court hearings on Wednesday afternoon. Read More » Wells Fargo Bank N.A. has agreed to pay $105 million to settle investor claims related to its work with defunct Medical Capital Holdings Inc., a purported medical receivables purchasing company in California that was later revealed to be a $1 billion Ponzi scheme. 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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