NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Latham Fights to Stay in Antitrust Class Action • Privacy Board Hears from Surveillance Defenders, Critics • Judge Sentences Lawyer to Probation for Obstruction • D.C. Circuit Upholds Damages in 'Contempt-of-Cop' Case • McDermott Representing Web-Monitoring Device Maker • D.C. Circuit Nominee Millett Would Take a Major Pay Cut Latham & Watkins argued this morning against an effort that would disqualify the firm from working on one of the largest antitrust class actions in Washington federal district court. Latham is representing Union Pacific Railroad Co., one of four top... Read More » Several prominent lawyers are playing key roles in the public debate about government surveillance programs, including two former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who defended the secret monitoring effort today. The newly revived Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board today... Read More » A former New York lawyer who lied to federal agents about his role in a stock price manipulation scheme will spend the next two years on federal probation. Robert S. Brown, formerly with New York's Reitler Brown & Rosenblatt, pleaded... Read More » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today affirmed a $97,500 judgment in favor of a woman who claimed she was unlawfully arrested in retaliation for making comments critical of police officers here. The District of Columbia had... Read More » With the publication Monday of a report about U.S.-made Internet monitoring devices discovered in Iran and Sudan, McDermott Will & Emery lobbyists could find themselves called on to defend the manufacturer. Blue Coat Systems Inc., which made the devices that... Read More » If the Senate confirms her, she would trade law firm earnings of $1 million per year, according to newly released committee records, for the $184,500 salary of a federal circuit judge. 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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