NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • D.C. Circuit Nominee Millett Would Take a Major Pay Cut • Judge Won't Block Force-Feeding at Guantanamo • Patton Boggs Receives Another Lebanese Banking Client • Judge Keeps Alive Whistleblower Suit Against Halliburton • Court Affirms Ruling that D.C. Water Didn't Corrode Pipes • Securities Enforcers If the Senate confirms her, she would trade law firm earnings of $1 million per year, according to newly released committee records, for the $184,500 salary of a federal circuit judge. Read More » A federal trial judge in Washington today declined to force the government to stop the force-feeding of a group of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay naval facility. The judge, Gladys Kessler of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,... Read More » As Patton Boggs helps Lebanon's financial regulator assuage concerns in Washington about Lebanese banks' alleged money laundering for terrorists, a bank in the country has come to the firm for assistance. Beirut-based MEAB SAL, once known as the Middle East... Read More » A federal trial judge has declined to shut down a whistleblower's suit that alleges defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root and its parent company, Halliburton Co., passed along to the U.S. government the inflated cost of laundry services provided to... Read More » D.C. water has faced its share of bad press in the past, but the city recently fended off a lawsuit claiming the water was so corrosive it caused leaks in copper piping. The owner of residential apartment buildings in Northwest... Read More » Appointed by chairman Mary Jo White to co-direct the SEC Enforcement Division, long-time friends George Canellos and Andrew Ceresney have a formidable to-do list. They talk to NLJ about their plans for the division. 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 » | 
No comments:
Post a Comment