Monday, September 30, 2013

In Government Shutdown, Civil Litigation Takes Hit

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON

• In Government Shutdown, Civil Litigation Takes Hit

• Heath Care Attorneys Watch Capitol Hill Budget Battle

• DOJ Wants Charges Dropped Against Former Blackwater Guard

• Court Dismisses Palestinian President's Son's Libel Suit

• D.C. Circuit Hears Guantanamo Detainee Challenge

• SEC Chief Litigation Counsel Stepping Down

In Government Shutdown, Civil Litigation Takes Hit

The U.S. Department of Justice would curtail or postpone civil litigation during a government shutdown and would furlough 17,742 employees, or about 15 percent of its workforce starting tomorrow, according to a contingency plan. While many Justice... Read More »

Heath Care Attorneys Watch Capitol Hill Budget Battle

Health care attorneys and their clients are less worried about a government shutdown than any changes to the Affordable Care Act that might come out of budget negotiations. "In large part, most of the clients are proceeding with business as... Read More »

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DOJ Wants Charges Dropped Against Former Blackwater Guard

Prosecutors today asked a Washington judge to dismiss charges against one of five former private security guards in the 2007 shooting deaths of more than a dozen Iraqis in Baghdad. The decision, announced in a court filing in U.S. District... Read More »

Court Dismisses Palestinian President's Son's Libel Suit

A Washington federal judge has dismissed a defamation suit the son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas brought against the publisher of Foreign Policy magazine. Yasser Abbas sued Foreign Policy and Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation... Read More »

D.C. Circuit Hears Guantanamo Detainee Challenge

The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments today in a case that could undo a terrorism conviction and reshape how the government prosecutes criminal charges against other detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The... Read More »

SEC Chief Litigation Counsel Stepping Down

Less than three months after a federal jury found former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president Fabrice Tourre liable for securities fraud, Matthew Martens, the Securities and Exchange Commission's lead trial counsel on the case, is leaving the agency. Martens... Read More »

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