Headlines • Amid Shutdown, Supreme Court to Hear Arguments • Fiction vs. Reality to Play Out in Trademark Appeal • D.C. Courts, Lawyers Feel the Pain During Shutdown • Bringing U.S. Businesses to the Fight Against Obesity • Cert Grant in Texas Case Could Impact Attorney Fees in Patent Suits • Lawyer's Guide to Scalia's New York interview • Court: Small City Not Obliged to Defend Accused Embezzler • Op-ed: Congress, Look to the Supreme Court • Judge, Lawyers Say Shutdown to Harm Judiciary • Miller & Chevalier Signs Lease for New Office The U.S. Supreme Court ended uncertainty Wednesday about whether the federal government shutdown would delay arguments next week. The court will begin as scheduled, October 15. Read More » A software company is pressing to revive its trademark infringement claims against Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. for using the name of a real-life computer program in the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. Read More » At the start of the government shutdown October 1, the federally funded District of Columbia court system announced furloughs for about one-third of its employees. Over the past week, though, the courts have started calling certain furloughed employees back to... Read More » During the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's annual Corporate Responsibility Conference, speakers urged businesses to take action and presented strategies companies can deploy to help battle the problem of obesity in the U.S. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court will review two important appeals in patent-infringement cases, including one from the Lone Star State. The pair of disputes will determine how much discretion trial courts have in determining what constitute "exceptional cases" -- frivolous-claim findings that allow prevailing parties to recover reasonable attorney fees. Read More » In between some titillating comments, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some important statements in a New York magazine interview about the evolution of his thinking about the law, his colleagues and clerks, Supreme Court practitioners, Harvard Law School, and even his brief flirtation with the notion of retirement. Read More » The former administrator of Bell, Calif., who pleaded no contest last week to embezzlement, plans to seek reconsideration of a California appellate ruling that the city is not required to pay for his legal defense. Read More » The front door of the Supreme Court faces the Capitol building. Across the top of the building's face, the Court's motto quietly declares "Equal Justice Under Law." On the First Monday of October, it seemed more like a shout. Read More » The last government shutdown in 1996 had a "debilitating" effect on court operations, retired U.S. District Judge W. Royal Furgeson Jr. told lawmakers on Capitol Hill today. Testifying in Washington, Furgeson said the judiciary, already grappling with budget cuts from... Read More » Rendering of the future development at 900 16th Street, N.W. Miller & Chevalier has inked a 15-year lease to be the anchor tenant in a new development two blocks north of the White House. The Washington-based firm, which has about... Read More » | 
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