An Artistic Tribute to Four Female Justices

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • An Artistic Tribute to Four Female Justices • JPMorgan Settles With Commodity Futures Agency For $100M • Federal Courts Reducing Space to Save Money • Japanese and U.S. Automakers Battle Over Trade Agreement • As Funding Deadline Looms, Courts Continue Shutdown Preparations • Law Schools Unperturbed by Budget Crisis—Well, Mostly An Artistic Tribute to Four Female Justices A life-sized painting of the Supreme Court's four female justices is due to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. on October 28 in an invitation-only ceremony that the entire court is expected to attend. Renowned portraitist Nelson... Read More » JPMorgan Settles With Commodity Futures Agency For $100M Invoking a powerful new provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that bars reckless manipulative conduct, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it reached a $100 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase Bank over massive trading losses by the so-called London Whale.... Read More » Federal Courts Reducing Space to Save Money The federal judiciary will hand over more than 66,300 square feet of underused office space in court buildings across the country, saving $1.7 million in annual rent. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced this week that space in... Read More » Japanese and U.S. Automakers Battle Over Trade Agreement More than six-dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday stood up for Japanese automakers as the manufactures battle their U.S. counterparts over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade agreement. In a letter to President Barack Obama, whose administration... Read More » As Funding Deadline Looms, Courts Continue Shutdown Preparations Federal judges across the country are pressing ahead with planning for the full effects of the government shutdown as lawmakers on Capitol Hill try to hammer out a deal to end the budget impasse. Read More » Law Schools Unperturbed by Budget Crisis—Well, Mostly While the federal courts and agencies struggle with the federal government shutdown and impending debt ceiling deadline, the nation's law schools mostly remain relative oases of calm. One notable exception operates in the nation's capital. Read More »

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