Headlines • In Blow to Business, Judge Upholds Conflict-Mineral Rule • Dip Seen in Security Class Action Filings This Year • Just How Business-Friendly is the Supreme Court, Anyhow? • Washburn Law Raising Money for New $40M Facility • Southern California Pot Campaign Nets 21-Year Sentence • Powerhouse Philly Lawyer Arthur Makadon Dies at 70 • California Gets Serious About Noncompete Clauses • Social-Media Screening is a Potential Mine Field • $1.6 Billion Toyota Settlement Wins Final Approval • Judge Rules Gadens Gave Negligent Tax Advice A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that will require about 6,000 publicly traded companies to report whether their products contain four so-called conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where warlords use proceeds from the mineral sales to finance murder, rape and torture. Read More » Securities class action filings during the first half of 2013 dipped by 16 percent compared with the same period in 2012, continuing last year's downward trend. There were 74 new cases in the first half of the year, compared with 88 in the comparable period of 2012. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court term just ended was good for business—but not, percentage-wise, as good as you might think. The annual Mayer Brown analysis of the high court's business docket shows that in the 25 cases last term that pitted a business against an individual or government agency, business prevailed in 16—a 64 per cent win rate. Read More » Officials at Washburn University School of Law this month gave their preliminary blessing to a plan to construct a new home for the Topeka, Kan., law school. If all goes according to plan, officials will break ground for the $40 million structure in 2016 and will open it to students in 2018. Read More » A California man who owned nine marijuana dispensaries has been sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison. The sentence is among the largest obtained by the U.S. Justice Department in its crackdown on marijuana operations in Southern California. Read More » Arthur Makadon, a hard-nosed litigator who also helped transform Ballard Spahr into a national presence during a decade as chairman, has died after a short illness. Read More » The state's Supreme Court makes it clear: They're out of bounds, unless very narrowly drawn. Read More » Searches pose problems for employers to establish that protected class membership or lifestyle was not a hiring factor. Read More » A U.S. federal judge approved last Friday a $1.6 billion settlement between Toyota Motor Corp. and consumers of its vehicles who claimed economic losses because of the company's sudden acceleration recalls. Read More » The 550-lawyer Australian firm's client ultimately paid almost $6.5 million in a settlement with the tax office. Read More » | 
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