Headlines • High Court Sides with Adoptive Parents in 'Baby Veronica' Case • Supreme Court Guts Key Voting Rights Act Provision • Voting Rights Ruling a 'Serious' Setback, Eric Holder Says • ABA Proposal Alarms Law School Diversity Advocates • BP Fights Gulf Spill Payments as Claims Attorney Resigns • Mississippi-Based Butler Snow Opens Shop in London • What to Celebrate and Lament About the Fisher Decision • IN BRIEF: Madoff Trustee Can't Sue • Q&A With Seth Waxman: Part 1 • Ex-Director Accuses Berkeley Social Justice Center of Bias The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the adoptive parents in a high-profile custody battle involving a Cherokee birth father who invoked a federal law to assert his parental rights over his daughter. Read More » A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a crippling blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by striking down the formula devised by Congress to determine which states are covered by the act. Read More » Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. called Tuesday's gutting of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Supreme Court "a serious and unnecessary setback," but he said the department will press on in the enforcement of voting rights laws. Read More » A proposal to tighten the American Bar Association's bar passage requirement for law schools hasn't gone over well with some advocates for diversity in the legal profession. Read More » The resignation of a former staff attorney for the Deepwater Horizon settlement fund who was accused of pocketing some of the distributions came as BP PLC is challenging the method of calculating damages on oil spill claims Read More » Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada has launched a London office focusing on cross-border tax work for private clients. Leading the office is Brad Westerfield, who joined Butler Snow from London's Withers earlier this month. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court's June 24 Fisher v. Texas decision upheld racial diversity as a value while at the same time imposed an additional hurdle on effectively pursuing it. Read More » The trustee overseeing recovery efforts on behalf of victims in the Bernard Madoff multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme lacks standing to sue financial institutions for aiding and abetting the fraud, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled. Plus more in our weekly roundup of Web-only stories from NLJ.com and other ALM publications. Read More » Seth Waxman argued four cases this term—including the patent case Bowman v. Monsanto. It was a particularly sweet victory for Waxman, who has represented Monsanto for a dozen years. Read More » The former director of a social justice center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law has sued her ex-boss, claiming that she was unjustly fired amid an undercurrent of racial tension at the center and the law school. Read More » | 
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