Plaintiffs Firms Line Up for Fannie/Freddie Lawsuits

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Plaintiffs Firms Line Up for Fannie/Freddie Lawsuits • Senators Look to Make U.S. Surveillance More Transparent • MIT, Library Urge Intervention in Public Records Suit • Judge: Fed 'Inappropriately' Inflated Debit Card Fees • No Warrant Needed for Cell Site Data, Fifth Circuit Says • Wyeth Settles Off-Label Marketing Claims for $490.9 Million Plaintiffs Firms Line Up for Fannie/Freddie Lawsuits Earlier this month, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Theodore Olson made headlines when he filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of blocking private stockholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from getting their fair share. Since then, more than a... Read More » Senators Look to Make U.S. Surveillance More Transparent With U.S. intelligence and Department of Justice officials looking on, senators on Wednesday laid out plans to make the government's data-gathering efforts more transparent. Appearing at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on U.S. surveillance, Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein of California... Read More » MIT, Library Urge Intervention in Public Records Suit Lawyers for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the digital library JSTOR continue to press their fight to intervene in a public records lawsuit to assert control over the scope of information the government is planning to release about the... Read More » Judge: Fed 'Inappropriately' Inflated Debit Card Fees A federal judge on Wednesday struck down federal regulations on debit-card transaction fees, finding that the Federal Reserve adopted rules that "inappropriately" inflated fees by billions of dollars. Read More » No Warrant Needed for Cell Site Data, Fifth Circuit Says Legal authorities do not need a warrant to obtain records detailing a cellphone's location, a federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled, overturning a trial judge who said subscribers enjoy a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in the data. Read More » Wyeth Settles Off-Label Marketing Claims for $490.9 Million A Pfizer Inc. subsidiary on Tuesday entered into a $490.9 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve civil and criminal allegations of off-label pharmaceutical marketing abuses. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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