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Consumer Agency Urges Court to Toss Suit Against It

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• Consumer Agency Urges Court to Toss Suit Against It

• Georgetown Law School Donor's Lawsuit Moved to D.C.

• Q&A: Ropes & Gray's Douglas Hallward-Driemeier

• D.C. Circuit Rejects FOIA Access to White House Visitor Logs

• Ex-EEOC GC on Background Checks in Hiring Decisions

• Law Scholars Debate Legality of Syria Attack

Consumer Agency Urges Court to Toss Suit Against It

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week struck back against a company that's challenging the constitutionality of the agency's structure, arguing in court papers that the plaintiffs "utterly fail to show that the Bureau's authority is out of step with... Read More »

Georgetown Law School Donor's Lawsuit Moved to D.C.

A breach of contract suit filed against Georgetown University by a multimillion-dollar donor to the law school was transferred this week from Texas federal district court to Washington, where it'll play out just several blocks from the law school campus.... Read More »

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Q&A: Ropes & Gray's Douglas Hallward-Driemeier

It's been a busy summer for Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, the managing partner of Ropes & Gray's Washington office. On the last day of the Supreme Court term, the high court said it would review the limits of power of bankruptcy judges;... Read More »

D.C. Circuit Rejects FOIA Access to White House Visitor Logs

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today that records of visitors to the White House were off limits to requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Allowing public access to the information would circumvent Congress'... Read More »

Ex-EEOC GC on Background Checks in Hiring Decisions

On August 9, U.S. District Judge Roger Titus in Maryland dismissed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against Freeman Cos., which the agency claimed was discriminating against minority and male job applicants. The EEOC said in a September 2009 compliant... Read More »

Law Scholars Debate Legality of Syria Attack

With the possibility of military action against Syria looming, constitutional scholars are debating whether the president must first get approval from Congress to legally launch an attack. Read More »

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Litigators of the Week: Linda Friedman, Suzanne Bish, and George Robot

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• Blackstone To Pay $85 Million in Class Action Settlement

• Judge Finds Johnson & Johnson Unit Breached Protective Order

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InfiLaw System Poised to Buy Charleston School of Law

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• InfiLaw System Poised to Buy Charleston School of Law

• First Hip Replacement Trial Set to Begin

• Law Scholars Debate Legality of Syria Attack

• Former Kennedy Clerk Named Ohio State Solicitor

• Europe Advancing Victims' Rights in Antitrust Actions

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InfiLaw System Poised to Buy Charleston School of Law

The Charleston School of Law will soon join the InfiLaw consortium of for-profit law schools. The owners of the law school announced Wednesday that they have reached a preliminary agreement to sell to The InfiLaw System, which is owned by a private equity firm and operates the Charlotte School of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law and Phoenix School of Law. Read More »

First Hip Replacement Trial Set to Begin

The first federal trial over DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.'s metal-on-metal hip replacement device, which is the subject of about 10,000 lawsuits across the country, is scheduled to begin on September 9 in Cleveland. Read More »

Law Scholars Debate Legality of Syria Attack

With the possibility of military action against Syria looming, constitutional scholars are debating whether the president must first get approval from Congress to legally launch an attack. Read More »

Former Kennedy Clerk Named Ohio State Solicitor

Eric Murphy, a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has been appointed state solicitor of Ohio. Murphy is now an associate at Jones Day in Columbus, Ohio, where he specialized in trial and appellate litigation, including cases before the Supreme Court. Read More »

Europe Advancing Victims' Rights in Antitrust Actions

The European Commission recognizes that it is not enough to have the right to an action for damages for competition law violations in the European Union. A victim must be able to exercise that right without obstacles and legal uncertainties. Read More »

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INADMISSIBLE: Secret Court Says Spying Crossed Line

The U.S. Department of Justice certainly wasn't eager to publicly share a 2011 opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that found the government violated the Fourth Amendment in sweeping up tens of thousands of Americans' emails. Plus more in this week's column. Read More »

The Broader Message of the Stop and Frisk Ruling

Federal district court Judge Shira Scheindlin's stunning 195-page opinion on August 12 about stop-and-frisk in New York City should be mandatory reading for every police commissioner and police chief in the United States. Read More »

Four Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap

Women still aren't getting a fair shake at the firm--here's what can be done about it. Read More »

The Most Diverse Law Firms Are...

Vault.com has released its diversity rankings, and a single firm has taken the number one spot throughout. Read More »



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