NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Supreme Court Declares DOMA Unconstitutional • After Same-Sex Marriage Rulings, Cheers Outside Supreme Court • DOMA Ruling To Prompt Legislation on Capitol Hill • Obama Asks Holder to Enforce DOMA Ruling • Civil Rights Groups Celebrate Supreme Court Rulings • Past, Present D.C. Attorneys General Spar Over Office's Future • Justice Ginsburg Celebrates ABA's New D.C. Office • ABA Proposal Alarms Law School Diversity Advocates • High Court Sides with Adoptive Parents in 'Baby Veronica' Case • BP Fights Gulf Spill Payments as Claims Attorney Resigns Updated 11:24 a.m. By Marcia Coyle A divided U.S. Supreme Court today declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage of Act of 1996, which blocked federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the opinion for the court.... Read More » Outside the Supreme Court today, leading attorneys in the fight for same-sex rights heralded the U.S. Supreme Court rulings today in the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 cases. "Today the United States Supreme Court in two important decisions... Read More » Updated 1:24 p.m. Democratic members of Congress quickly praised the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings Wednesday in same sex marriage cases and pledged to introduce legislation that would finish the job of fully repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. The decision... Read More » Updated 12:52 p.m. President Barack Obama directed Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. on Wednesday to ensure the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act is implemented "swiftly and smoothly." "I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to... Read More » Updated at 12:42 p.m. Today's U.S. Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage were met with cheers of "victory" from civil rights organizations nationwide, while conservative groups maintained the decisions left the national debate over gay marriage unresolved. "Today's historic decisions... Read More » The current attorney general for the District of Columbia, Irvin Nathan, has said he won't run to keep his job when the city switches to an elected attorney general in 2014. But that doesn't mean he lacks strong feelings about... Read More » Hours after sitting on the bench for the announcement of decisions in two of the biggest U.S. Supreme Court cases of the term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made an appearance at a decidedly lower key event this afternoon: the dedication... 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 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 » 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 » SUPREME COURT CASES Provision in 1965 Voting Rights Act determining which states must receive federal preclearance based on past history of discrimination in voting is outdated and unconstitutional (Roberts, C.J.) Read More » Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a claim of retaliatory adverse employment action requires proof of but-for causation, not merely proof that improper motive was one of multiple causes of the challenged employment action. (U.S. Supreme Court, 06-24-2013) Read More » Biological father who had never had custody of child could not rely on Indian Child Welfare Act to obtain custody after birth mother agreed to adoption of child by non-Indian adoptive couple (Alito, J.) Read More » Established rule that government cannot condition approval of land use permit on relinquishment of portion of property absent nexus and rough proportionality between government's demand and effects of propose land applies even when permit is denied and demand was for money (Alito, J.) Read More » In upholding university admissions plan, Fifth Circuit erred in giving substantial deference to university instead of applying strict scrutiny standard articulated in prior Supreme Court decisions (Kennedy, J.) Read More » In upholding a university admissions plan,the 5th Circuit erred in giving substantial deference to the university instead of applying a strict scrutiny standard articulated in prior Supreme Court decisions. (U.S. Supreme Court, 06-24-2013) Read More » | 
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