NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Senate Committee Approves Associate Attorney General Nominee • Former Patton Boggs Partner Sues Firm Over Discrimination • At the Supreme Court, New Regulation Targets Demonstrations • Judge's New Job Opens Seat on D.C. Federal Court • New Zealand Hires Covington for Visa Lobbying • Kasowitz Opens D.C. Office Updated 2:43 p.m. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved acting Associate Attorney General Tony West's bid to take over the role full time, as well as two district court nominees for the Southern District of New York. The committee... Read More » Roy Lessy, a former partner at Patton Boggs, is suing the firm for discrimination, claiming he was treated unfairly and not paid money he was owed after he resigned because he had a disability. Lessy, 69, worked at the firm... 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. | The Supreme Court moved quickly on Thursday to respond to a recent district judge's decision that struck down the federal law banning demonstrations on the grounds of the court. Read More » Earlier this week, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. announced he was tapping U.S. District Judge John Bates to lead the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Bates is expected to continue serving as an active judge, but his appointment has... Read More » Updated at 3:05 p.m. Covington & Burling in Washington has signed up to lobby for another country looking to make it easier for its citizens to enter the United States. New Zealand has hired Covington to help create "a legislative... Read More » Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman has opened a Washington office led by the former chief of staff for former Sen. Joe Lieberman. Clarine Nardi Riddle, who joins Kasowitz as counsel, will lead the firm's government affairs practice. She will advise... 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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