NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Tom Perez Confirmed as Labor Secretary • Google Upgrades its Lobbying Operation Headquarters • Fracking Company Agrees to $20 Million Cleanup • Federal Circuit Nominee Gets Senate Judiciary Approval • Judges Refuse to Let Law Grads Discharge Student Debt • NLRB Recess Appointments Ruled Unconstitutional—Again Updated 2:12 p.m. The Senate voted along party lines today to confirm Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez as the next Labor secretary, with Republicans still strongly opposed to his work with the U.S. Department of Justice and complaining he did... Read More » For lobbyists at Google Inc., the commute to the U.S. Capitol will be much shorter next year. The tech giant's Washington, D.C., office in spring 2014 will move from 1101 New York Ave. N.W. to 25 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., only... Read More » An Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary today agreed to settle charges it violated the Clean Water Act, pledging to spend about $20 million to better manage wastewater pollution from its fracking operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The U.S. Environmental Protection... Read More » Updated 2:53 p.m. The Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously approved Todd Hughes as a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as four other district court judge nominees. Hughes, a career staff attorney at... Read More » Some judges within the past year seemed to take a softer stance toward struggling law school graduates carrying tens of thousands of dollars in loans. But during this month alone, federal judges in two states slapped down attempts by law graduates to discharge their student loans through bankruptcy. Read More » Another federal appeals court has held that President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess. 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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