D.C. Paid $2.6M to Private Lawyers in Mass Arrest Case

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • D.C. Paid $2.6M to Private Lawyers in Mass Arrest Case • Check Cashing Service Pays $3.5 Million in FTC Case • D.C. Court Reverses Gun Conviction Over Urination Stop • Financial Services Roundtable Promotes New No. 2 • AGs Fight to Return S&P Litigation to Their Home Courts • Sony, Nvidia Recoup Costs of Bad Faith Patent Claim D.C. Paid $2.6M to Private Lawyers in Mass Arrest Case A single day of police activity in 2002 has cost the District of Columbia millions of dollars in litigation and settlements, including more than $2.6 million paid to date to private lawyers representing past and present police officials. The city... Read More » Check Cashing Service Pays $3.5 Million in FTC Case One of the nation's largest check cashing authorization services has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Part of a broader FTC initiative targeting data brokers,... Read More » D.C. Court Reverses Gun Conviction Over Urination Stop In late November 2010, a District of Columbia police officer approached a man he suspected of peeing in an alley. It turned out the man hadn't urinated, but the encounter ended with the man being searched and charged with possessing... Read More » Financial Services Roundtable Promotes New No. 2 Financial Services Roundtable has named Eric Hoplin its new second-in-command, the Washington, D.C.-based trade group announced Thursday. Hoplin, currently the Roundtable's vice president of communications and organizational strategy, on January 1 will become the organization's executive director under its president... Read More » AGs Fight to Return S&P Litigation to Their Home Courts The attorneys general of 15 states are fighting for a return to state courts for lawsuits alleging that Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC issued inflated ratings for mortgage-backed securities leading up to the recession. Read More » Sony, Nvidia Recoup Costs of Bad Faith Patent Claim A Colorado federal judge has ordered computer system maker Biax Corp. to pay nearly $2 million in Sony Corp. and Nvidia Corp.'s legal fees on the ground that Biax acted in bad faith by prolonging a patent case against them. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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