NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Williams & Connolly Facing Disqualification Motion • D.C. Circuit: Jerusalem Passport Law Invades Executive Turf • Justice Dept. Told Not to Delay Aaron Swartz FOIA • Import of Lethal Injection Drug Blocked by D.C. Circuit • FTC Vows Strong Action After Pay-for-Delay Ruling • Regulators and Banks Met Hundreds of Times About Dodd-Frank Williams & Connolly faces a motion to disqualify the firm from a civil lawsuit in Washington federal court involving the son of partner Brendan Sullivan Jr. The firm represents Brendan Sullivan III against Sullivan's former business partner, Robert Elwood. Late... Read More » A federal appeals court in Washington has declared unconstitutional the federal law that allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to identify "Israel" as their place of birth on a U.S. passport. Read More » A federal trial judge in Washington today urged the government to continue reviewing thousands of pages of documents that could be released in a public records lawsuit seeking information from the Secret Service about the Internet activist Aaron Swartz. The... Read More » The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was wrong to allow states to import a "misbranded and unapproved new drug" used in lethal injection cocktails without first examining it, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today. In... Read More » The Federal Trade Commission is planning strong court attacks against so-called "pay-for-delay" generic drug settlements in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June, commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez told a Senate committee Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The high court's... Read More » Representatives of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Morgan Stanley & Co. are taking up the most space in the calendars of federal regulators tasked with implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, according... 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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