NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • For D.C. Circuit Nominee, Credentials Are Not The Controversy • Patton Boggs Lobbyist Joins Wilmer • FCC Tackles Cost of Prison Phone Calls • Katten Starts Internet Practice with Former Steptoe Partner • Key Dodd-Frank Provision Unconstitutional, Panel Warned • Argument That S&P's Ratings Were 'Puffery' Doesn't Fly It was almost as if Patricia Millett didn't have to show up for her confirmation hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The fight about her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit isn't about her. There was... Read More » Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is vying to expand its reach into Washington lobbying with the addition of a Patton Boggs partner. Jonathan Yarowsky joined Wilmer Wednesday as the chairman of the firm's legislative affairs and public policy practice,... Read More » When it comes to sky-high telephone rates, it's hard to top the cost of making a call from prison - a phone call from an inmate across town may be ten times more expensive than ringing a friend in Singapore.... Read More » Updated 1:40 p.m. Katten Muchin Rosenman is starting an Internet practice in Washington with a lateral partner from Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Brian Winterfeldt, formerly a Steptoe intellectual property partner, joins Katten as a partner. He brings with him four... Read More » Arguing that due process rights "are vaporized" under the Dodd-Frank Act, witnesses told a House subcommittee on Tuesday that aspects of the massive 2010 law overhauling the financial services industry might be unconstitutional. Read More » A federal judge in California has said he likely would allow the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit to go forward against ratings agency Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC over the integrity of its ratings leading up to the 2008 financial collapse. 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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