Suit Challenges CFPB Authority Over Legal-Services Industry

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Suit Challenges CFPB Authority Over Legal-Services Industry • Patton Boggs Earns $1.9 Million for Foreign Lobbying • MIT, Library Seek Say in Aaron Swartz FOIA Suit • House, Senate Panels at Odds Over Legal Services Budget • Court Denies SLAPP Motion Against Scientist's Libel Suit • National Intelligence GC Addresses Surveillance Programs Suit Challenges CFPB Authority Over Legal-Services Industry In the latest constitutional challenge against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency was accused today of overstepping its authority by attempting to regulate the practice of law and collect personal financial data. Read More » Patton Boggs Earns $1.9 Million for Foreign Lobbying Patton Boggs received payments totaling $1.9 million for lobbying work performed on behalf of overseas governments during the first half of 2013, according to a report filed with the U.S. Department of Justice last week. The semiannual report was filed... Read More » MIT, Library Seek Say in Aaron Swartz FOIA Suit A federal judge is set to explore whether to allow two groups, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to intervene in a lawsuit seeking the public disclosure of government information about Internet activist Aaron Swartz. MIT, represented by a team... Read More » House, Senate Panels at Odds Over Legal Services Budget Updated 3:18 p.m. Congressional committees have approved budget proposals for Legal Services Corp. but did little to clear up whether the nation's civil legal service providers will take yet another hit next year. On one hand, the House Appropriations Committee... Read More » Court Denies SLAPP Motion Against Scientist's Libel Suit Climate scientist Michael Mann's libel suit against National Review has survived an effort to dismiss the case brought under the District of Columbia law barring strategic lawsuits against public participations, or SLAPPs. Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center... Read More » National Intelligence GC Addresses Surveillance Programs Robert Litt, the U.S. intelligence community's top lawyer, on Friday tried to assuage concerns about the government's data gathering after National Security Agency leaks last month, saying it's both legal and limited. Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.,... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES United States v. Windsor Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional as deprivation of equal liberty of persons that is protected by Fifth Amendment (Kennedy, J.) Read More » Sekhar v. United States 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 » Hollingsworth v. Perry 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 » Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder 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 » University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar 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 » Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl 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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