NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Obama Picks Skadden Partner to Help Close Guantanamo • DOJ Challenges Reversal of Sanctions in Ted Stevens Case • U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, 76, Dies • Judge Dismisses Torture Lawsuit Against North Korea • Williams & Jensen to Lobby for HSBC on Bank Regulation • ITC Docket Returning to 'Normal' President Barack Obama will begin a new push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by appointing a well-known Washington attorney to a key government position, the State Department announced today. Obama has asked Clifford Sloan, a partner at Skadden,... Read More » The Justice Department is fighting an administrative judge's reversal of the suspensions imposed against two prosecutors who were accused of ethical lapses in the corruption case against the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. The judge, Benjamin Gutman, who hears Merit... Read More » Updated at 4:10 p.m. Retired U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who died over the weekend, was known for pushing boundaries, on and off the bench. As a judge in the District of Columbia's federal trial court, he famously ordered... Read More » A Washington federal judge dismissed a civil terrorism lawsuit against the North Korean government on Friday, finding the family of a man who went missing near the North Korean border with China failed to present enough evidence of torture. The... Read More » The North American arm of one of Europe's largest banks has retained Williams & Jensen to lobby for it in Washington. HSBC North America Holdings Inc., the holding company for the U.S. operations of London-based HSBC Holdings PLC, has enlisted... 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 Under F.R.Crim.P. 11(h), vacatur of a defendant's guilty plea, made on advice of a magistrate judge, was not mandated where the record showed no prejudice tothe defendant's decision to plead guilty. (U.S. Supreme Court, 06/13/2013) Read More » 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 » | 
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