Headlines • Court: Paralyzing Man During Drug Search Violated Rights • Transvaginal Mesh Bellwether Case Ends in Settlement • Gift Fuels Northwestern's Search for Truth About Patent Law • Equatorial Guinea Ordered to Pay Firm For Expenses • Peak Position • INADMISSIBLE: Supreme Court Says Spying Crossed Line • The Broader Message of the Stop and Frisk Ruling • Changes in E.U. Merger Rules Could Be Huge • Toyota Attacks Claims of Accelerator Software Bug • Four Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap Police suspected that a man named Felix Booker was concealing contraband inside his body. They arrested him on a drug charge and later, against his will, a doctor paralyzed him for eight minutes to take a look. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit agreed that the search went too far and reversed Booker's drug conviction. Read More » The second federal bellwether trial over transvaginal mesh devices has settled for an undisclosed sum, while manufacturer C.R. Bard Inc. continues to press that the FDA's approval of its device should be admitted as evidence to jurors. Read More » The patent system has been accused of stifling innovation. Now Northwestern University School of Law is launching an investigation into whether that's true. The Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Growth has received a $2 million donation to support the effort. Read More » A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday awarded Lanny Davis's lobbying and crisis management firm nearly $160,000 for unpaid expenses incurred while working for the government of Equatorial Guinea. Read More » From key practice areas and diversity in the bar, to growth strategy and billing arrangements, Washington managing partners give their observations—from the top. Read More » 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 » 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 » The European Commission recently published a consultation paper that invites comments on a proposal to allow review of the acquisition of noncontrolling minority shareholdings. The proposed reform is the most significant in the last 10 years and could have a huge impact on many corporate transactions. Read More » The Japanese automaker has moved to strike evidence from an expert who claims that problems in the electronic throttle control system source code was to blame for unintended acceleration by Toyota vehicles. Read More » Women still aren't getting a fair shake at the firm--here's what can be done about it. Read More » | 
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