NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • DOJ Ordered to Justify Secrecy of Corruption Probe • Howrey Art Collection Goes Under the Hammer • Report: Obama Tops in Diversifying Federal Bench • U.S. Chamber Taps Brownstein for Immigration Lobbying • Judge Strikes Law Banning Demonstrations at Supreme Court • 12 Things You Didn't Know About the 2013 NLJ 350 A Washington federal judge today ordered federal prosecutors to disclose more details about a past probe into alleged misconduct by U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) or prepare to better justify the continued secrecy. She cited a previous decision finding the... Read More » Pieces of art that once hung on the walls of Howrey's Washington and New York offices were up for grabs Wednesday at an auction. In all, 48 pieces were offered at an auction just blocks from Howrey's old office here... 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. | When President Barack Obama nominated two women to a key appeals court last week, he was adding to his lead when it comes to adding women to the federal bench, according to a new study. Obama has successfully appointed a... Read More » After lobbying for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's legal reform group for five years, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Washington has received a new assignment from the business federation. The Chamber has tapped Brownstein to advocate for it on congressional... Read More » Departing from a long line of local court rulings, a federal judge in the District of Columbia on Tuesday struck down the 64-year-old law that prohibits demonstrations and displays on the grounds of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More » Law firms are big, hiring is low and many practices are pinched. But what other details has the NLJ 350, The National Law Journal's annual survey of the nation's largest law firms, uncovered? Take a look at some facts that might surprise (or amuse) you. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES 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 » Where parties had agreed to allow arbitrator to determine whether contract authorized classwide arbitration, arbitrator's decision on that issue was not subject to judicial review (Kagan, J.) Read More » Rape defendant suffered no constitutional violation when state trial court excluded evidence of victim's prior, uncorroborated accusations (per curiam) Read More » Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 preempted state law providing that spouses cease to be beneficiaries of each other's life insurance policies after they are divorced (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » State statute authorizing DNA collection from probable cause felony arrestees is not unconstitutional (Kennedy, J.) Read More » | 
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