NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • D.C. Circuit Nominee Under Fire on Capitol Hill • Bank of America Challenges FDIC 'No Value' Decision • Chamber of Commerce Spent $19M on Lobbying in Q2 • Former Senior DOJ Lawyer Heads to Akin • No Extra Discipline for Prosecutor Who Withheld Evidence • First Circuit Divides Over Malodorous Case Republican senators grilled Cornelia "Nina" Pillard about her views on hot-button political issues during her confirmation hearing Wednesday, setting her up to be the most controversial of the three nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals to the D.C. Circuit.... Read More » Bank of America, N.A. is challenging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's authority to knock out certain court claims against financial institutions under receivership by issuing a determination that they have "no value." The lawsuit, filed July 22 in U.S. District... Read More » The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its affiliated organizations doled out about $19.1 million on advocacy efforts during the past three months, spending roughly $2.3 million more than it did in the previous quarter, according to second-quarter lobbying reports filed... Read More » Updated 2:39 p.m. A former senior U.S. Justice Department attorney who advised top officials on matters that included the Fast and Furious congressional investigation and the inquiry into Aaron Swartz's death is joining Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Steven... Read More » A federal appeals court has opted to stay out of a dispute over whether a Boston federal prosecutor committed a professional breach by withholding exculpatory evidence in a racketeering trial. Read More » A divided federal appeals court in Boston upheld a man's conviction for misdemeanor property damage for his soiling of a small, single-occupant courthouse restroom in Portland, Maine. It was no accident, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled. 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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