NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Contractors Battle over $600 Million CIA Computing Contract • Former Justice Stevens Supports Majority in DNA Swab Case • Lawyers Scrutinize Constitutionality of Surveillance Programs • Fourth Circuit Strikes NLRB Poster Rule • Way Too Many Criminal Laws, Lawyers Tell Congress • ITC Docket Returning to 'Normal' A fight between Amazon Web Services and IBM U.S. Federal over a $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency gives a rare glimpse into the role of government contractors in supporting national security agencies.... Read More » In a speech Friday, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said he would have voted with the majority in the high court's decision this month allowing police officers to collect DNA evidence from arrested suspects. Stevens was the... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Litigation Skills Institute -- July 13-28 This rigorous litigation skills training program at American University Washington College of Law includes exercise driven courses on fact witness depositions, expert witness depositions, civil trial advocacy, as well as a cutting-edge digital evidence presentation workshop. With courses offered in the evenings and on weekends the Institute is ideal for attorneys seeking to sharpen their pretrial and courtroom skills. LEARN MORE. | Susan Freiwald, a professor at University of San Francisco School of Law, said today that two recently revealed government surveillance programs likely ran afoul of the Fourth Amendment. George Mason University School of Law Professor Nathan Sales countered that there... Read More » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled today that the National Labor Relations Board overstepped its authority by issuing a rule that would have required employers to post notices informing workers of their rights under federal labor... Read More » A panel of four attorneys told members of Congress today that one way to fix the nation's bloated and convoluted criminal code is to require prosecutors to prove intent, especially when it comes to regulatory violations. Congress could accomplish this... Read More » Just two years ago, the U.S. International Trade Commission was ground zero for high-stakes patent fights, a place where some of the world's biggest smartphone and electronics companies met to duke it out. But since fiscal year 2011, the agency's intellectual property caseload has been on a downward spiral. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act expressly preempts placard and parking requirements imposed on short-haul trucks by Port of Los Angeles (Kagan, J.) Read More » Interstate compact allocating water rights within Red River basin does not preempt Oklahoma water statutes (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Under F.R.Crim.P. 11(h), vacatur of defendant's guilty plea, made on advice of magistrate judge, was not mandated where record showed no prejudice to defendant's decision to plead guilty (Ginsburg, J.) Read More » Naturally occurring DNA is not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated; but synthetically created "composite DNA" is not naturally occurring and is therefore patent eligible (Thomas, J.) Read More » Defendant suffered ex post facto violation when he was sentenced under harsher guidelines promulgated after crimes were committed (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Ninth Circuit did not lack jurisdiction to hear raisin producers' claim that Department of Agriculture order under authority of Raisin Marketing Order of 1949 violated their rights under Takings Clause of Fifth Amendment (Thomas, J.) Read More » | 
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