NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • White House Eyes Lawyers for D.C. Circuit Vacancies • DOJ Official Will Return to Covington & Burling in July • New Judicial Vacancy Announced in D.C. Superior Court • Quattrone Financing Criminal Justice Research at Penn • Wilmer's Billing Snapshot • Reckoning for Caseload Relief The White House is evaluating at least four Washington lawyers to fill vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a key appellate court that is the centerpiece of the battle between the Obama administration and leading... Read More » A U.S. Justice Department lawyer who served in Lanny Breuer's front office in the Criminal Division is leaving his post this week and will return to Covington & Burling in July. Daniel Suleiman, the deputy chief of staff and counselor... Read More » The commission that vets applicants for the District of Columbia's local courts is accepting submissions from lawyers who want to take retiring D.C. Superior Court Judge Natalia Combs Greene's seat on the bench. The District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission... Read More » The University of Pennsylvania Law School is launching a center dedicated to policy and research of the U.S. criminal justice system, with the help of a $15 million donation from investment banker Frank Quattrone and his wife Denise Foderaro. Read More » Eastman Kodak Co.'s bankruptcy case is providing a glimpse into the billing rates of one of Washington's biggest firms: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Read More » For Missouri's defenders, who last year handled 86,000 cases, timekeeping could prove to state officials — with solid data — that they're stretched too thin and need relief. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES 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 » 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 » 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 » | 
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