NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Judge Awards $90.8M in Fees in Black Farmers Class Action • After Wrongful Conviction, Suit Seeks ID of Likely Suspect • Court Upholds $23M Fee Distribution in TV Writers' Case • Judge Halts Invasive Searches of Guantanamo Detainees • Steptoe Partner Lobbying on Immigration Reform • D.C. Council Postpones Attorney General Election to 2018 A federal judge in Washington has awarded $90.8 million in fees to the plaintiffs lawyers involved in the high-profile black farmers' discrimination litigation. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman concluded the plaintiffs' attorneys should receive the maximum amount—7.4 percent—under the terms... Read More » Updated at 11:33 a.m. After enduring more than 30 years of punishment for a sexual assault he didn't commit, Kirk Odom was exonerated by DNA testing and declared innocent last summer. Yesterday, Odom's attorneys sued the U.S. Department of Justice... Read More » More than three years after a California judge approved a $70 million settlement resolving claims of age discrimination against television writers, the D.C. Court of Appeals today upheld an arbitrator's decision dividing up attorney fees in the case. At stake... Read More » A Washington federal judge today blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from requiring detainees at Guantanamo Bay to undergo groin searches before meeting or speaking with their attorneys. Calling the genital-area searches "yet another exaggerated response" by officials who manage... Read More » Former Representative John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) has stepped into the debate in Washington over immigration reform as a lobbyist at Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Shadegg, a Steptoe partner, has registered to lobby for the Center for Opportunity, Protection and Fairness, a... Read More » Updated at 12:37 p.m. The D.C. Council voted late yesterday to delay the city's shift to an elected attorney general. The decision came as city officials grappled over plans to change the organization and authority of the attorney general's office... 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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