NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Supreme Court Strikes Down Voting Rights Act Formula • Holder Calls Voting Rights Act Ruling a 'Serious' Setback • Senate Judiciary Chairman Vows 'Immediate Action' After Voting Rights Ruling • D.C. Circuit: Defamation Suit Against Breitbart Can Proceed • Outside High Court, Civil Rights Activists Pledge Fight • In Bulger Trial, Debating the Meaning of 'Informant' In a sharply divided 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act -- the section that spells out the formula used to determine which jurisdictions warrant special scrutiny when they propose changes... Read More » Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. vowed Tuesday that the Justice Department would continue to enforce the Voting Rights Act around the country, even though he called the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, voiding a key provision in the law, "a serious... Read More » Updated 3:36 p.m. A key U.S. senator has pledged legislation that will plug any holes in the Voting Rights Act left by Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate... Read More » A federal appellate court today gave the green light to a defamation lawsuit filed against the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart by former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. A three-judge panel affirmed a court order denying Breitbart's motion... Read More » Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights... Read More » Lawyers for James "Whitey" Bulger on Monday won a spat with prosecutors over whether the accused mobster could be called an informant, after asking the court to allow them to counter the hammering their client is talking in the press. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES 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 » 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 » Congress had authority under Necessary and Proper Clause to enact federal sex offender registration statute and apply it to offenders who had completed their sentences before statute was enacted (Breyer, J.) Read More » State-law design-defect product liability claims turning on adequacy of drug warnings are preempted by federal law under recent binding Supreme Court authority (Alito, J.) Read More » Employee is "supervisor" for purposes of vicarious liability under Title VII only if that employee is empowered by employer to take tangible employment actions against victim of alleged harassment (Alito, J.) Read More » | 
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