NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Representing Microsoft, Sidley Sues Feds Over Motorola Imports • OPEN Act Would End Secret Corporate Political Spending • Jackson Lewis Picks Up Patton Boggs Attorneys • Judges Call for Investigation into D.C. Arrest Disparities • Reflections from a Chief Judge • The 'Skilling' Anticlimax Updated at 2:24 p.m. Last May, Sidley Austin helped client Microsoft Corp. win an order from the U.S. International Trade Commission barring imports of Motorola Mobility Inc. devices that infringed certain patents. The firm is now going to court for... Read More » Company shareholders seeking details on secret political spending at their corporations have a friend in Representative Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) Cartwright last week introduced the Openness in Political Expenditures Now (OPEN) Act, which would force businesses to reveal information on political... Read More » Since the end of June, 22 partners and 11 associates have left Patton Boggs. Jackson Lewis, Arent Fox and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr last week each brought on former Patton Boggs attorneys. Jackson Lewis picked up six former... Read More » In more than 30 years on the bench, now-retired U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina saw first-hand the difficulties criminal defendants faced when they went back into the community—even after a case was dismissed. Urbina spoke last week about what he... Read More » On July 16 — his 70th birthday — Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will pass the gavel to a successor. He talks to NLJ about his tenure on D.C.'s federal trial bench. Read More » Jeffrey Skilling's long appeals finally ended last month, when the courts shaved a decade off the prison sentence he received for his role in the Enron Corp. debacle. But the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bears his name has done little to convince appellate courts to reverse jury verdicts involving the honest-services fraud statute, under which Skilling had been convicted. 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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