NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Court Vacates SEC Payment Disclosure Rule • Patton Boggs Ends Lobbying for Ecuador • Barry Diller to Pay $480K to Settle Antitrust Claims • Judge Dismisses Suit Filed by Supreme Court "Occupy" Protester • Sentencing for Jesse Jackson Jr. Postponed • Death Penalty Protesters Fasting at Supreme Court A controversial rule by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would require oil and gas extraction companies to disclose government payments was vacated today by a Washington federal judge. The agency "fundamentally miscalculated the scope of its discretion" and... Read More » As Patton Boggs looks to rebound from a poor financial showing in 2012, the Washington-based law firm will have to make do without $780,000 annually from Ecuador. The firm has stopped lobbying for the country, according to a Foreign Agents... Read More » Corporate investor Barry Diller has agreed to pay $480,000 to settle claims he violated federal antitrust law when he acquired hundreds of thousands of shares of The Coca Cola Company between 2010 and 2012. Diller, a billionaire media mogul known... Read More » A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a complaint filed by a man arrested for wearing an "Occupy Everywhere" jacket inside the Supreme Court building last fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that court police officers had probable cause to... Read More » Updated at 3:30 p.m. Former U.S. congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will have to wait a little longer to find out whether he's going to prison for misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds. Sentencing for Jackson-scheduled to take... Read More » For the 20th year in a row, a group of death penalty protesters is holding a four-day demonstration in front of the Supreme Court seeking an end to capital punishment. The protest is timed to coincide with the June 29... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional as deprivation of equal liberty of persons that is protected by Fifth Amendment (Kennedy, J.) Read More » Attempt to compel person to recommend his employer approve investment did not constitute "obtaining of property from another" for purposes of Hobbs Act definition of extortion (Scalia, J.) Read More » Proponents of California same-sex marriage law initiative lacked standing to appeal federal district court's disapproval after California governor and state and local officials refused to defend challenged law (Roberts, C.J.) Read More » 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 » | 
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