NEwS FROM WASHINGTON • Justices Refuse Delay in California Prisoner Release • Judge Dismisses Constitutional Challenge to CFPB • After Sanctions, Law Firm in Porn Suits Dissolves • Bulger Says He Won't Take Stand in 'Sham' Trial • Senate and White House Move On Nominations • Covington's Casey Cooper Chosen for D.C. District Court • Former Anti-Fraud Enforcer Joins Stein Mitchell • Obama Picks Homeland Security, Energy, and NLRB GCs • D.C. Circuit Nominee Clears Divided Senate Committee • Group Offers To Certify Law Schools' Honesty For A Fee The U.S. Supreme Court, with three justices dissenting, on Friday rejected the state of California's request to delay a district court order requiring the release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by the end of the year to relieve overcrowding. The majority... Read More » A Washington federal judge dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, finding the plaintiffs didn't have standing to sue because they failed to show they suffered harm. The plaintiffs argued the Dodd-Frank Act violated the separation of... Read More » The law firm whose attorneys were sanctioned by a federal judge for fraudulently filing dozens of copyright infringement cases against people accused of downloading pornographic films has voluntarily dissolved after posting more than $237,000 in bonds in the case. Read More » Accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger told a Boston federal judge that he would not take the stand in his own defense against a 32-count indictment, including charges that he helped commit 19 murders, denouncing his trial as a "sham." Read More » The Senate and the White House used the last day before the month-long summer congressional recess to move on a slate of judicial and U.S. Justice Department positions, including Stuart Delery to lead the DOJ Civil Division. The Senate unanimously... Read More » London-based Covington & Burling partner Christopher "Casey" Cooper, a former U.S. Department of Justice official and member of President Barack Obama's 2008 transition team, was nominated late yesterday to a serve on Washington's federal district court. Cooper's practice focuses on... Read More » Updated 2:40 p.m. The former executive director of the Obama administration's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force will join Stein, Mitchell, Muse & Cipollone next month. Michael Bresnick, appointed to the post by Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in 2011, was... Read More » President Barack Obama on Thursday made his picks for the general counsel at the Departments of Homeland Security and Energy, as well as the National Labor Relations Board. The GC nominations went to Stevan Bunnell for DHS, Steven Croley for... Read More » The Senate has headed closer to a major showdown over President Barack Obama's picks for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit following a party-line vote approving Washington lawyer Patricia Millett's nomination. Read More » Law School Transparency, the nonprofit organization that helped push the ABA into beefing up the consumer information law schools must report each year, has unveiled a new "LST Certification Program." Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES | 
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