Fee Fight Emerges in Landmark Indian Trust Case

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Fee Fight Emerges in Landmark Indian Trust Case • Disclosure Sheds Light on Justice Alito's Recusals • Va. Governor McDonnell Replaces Legal Team • DOJ Appeals Order Blocking Guantanamo Groin Searches • Patton Boggs Wins White-Collar Acquittal in Kosovo • PepsiCo Turns to Former In-House Lobbyist for Help in D.C. Fee Fight Emerges in Landmark Indian Trust Case Updated at 3:26 p.m. A nonprofit that said it gave millions of dollars in grants to support the massive Indian trust litigation in Washington federal court is suing for $4.5 million of the $99 million awarded in attorney fees. The... Read More » Disclosure Sheds Light on Justice Alito's Recusals Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s latest financial disclosure report, publicly released this afternoon, offers some potential insight into why he recused in a handful of high-profile business disputes. Alito's report, at 23 pages, details numerous investments and trusts that include Chevron... Read More » Va. Governor McDonnell Replaces Legal Team Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has tapped attorneys from Jones Day and Holland & Knight to replace the legal team handling state and federal investigations over his alleged acceptance of improper gifts. Jones Day managing partner Stephen Brogan and Holland &... Read More » DOJ Appeals Order Blocking Guantanamo Groin Searches Updated at 2:34 p.m. Update: The D.C. Circuit this afternoon granted the government's emergency motion for a stay. The order puts on hold a ruling blocking groin searches of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The U.S. Justice Department will challenge a court... Read More » Patton Boggs Wins White-Collar Acquittal in Kosovo Patton Boggs attorneys have secured an acquittal in a white-collar prosecution in Kosovo for the leaders of a telecommunications company. Partners Andrew Friedman and Benjamin Chew defended the Devolli Group's Blerim and Shkelqim Devolli and their business manager of against... Read More » PepsiCo Turns to Former In-House Lobbyist for Help in D.C. PepsiCo Inc. has called up Dan Bryant, one of its former top in-house lobbyists, for help in Washington. Less than a year after Bryant left his position as PepsiCo's senior vice president of global public policy and government affairs to... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES United States v. Windsor Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional as deprivation of equal liberty of persons that is protected by Fifth Amendment (Kennedy, J.) Read More » Sekhar v. United States 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 » Hollingsworth v. Perry 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 » Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder 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 » University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar 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 » Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl 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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