Headlines • Government Shutdown Puts Law Student Externs on the Street • Parties Given Deadline to Propose Oil Spill Claims Fix • Job Bias Challenge Opens New Term • Use of Old DNA Test Debated in Threats to Politicians • Circuits Split on Life Sentences for Juveniles • Federal Government: Closed Until Further Notice • VOIR DIRE: The Law's the Pits • In the Wake of the Whale, What's Changed? • Jurist Questions Federal Circuit's Monopoly • Spotlight Stymies Law Firms From Making Necessary Business Moves Randall Miller is a law student with time on his hands. Since mid-September, the 3L at Washington and Lee University School of Law had been spending fours day per week in an externship with the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission in Washington. Then came the government shutdown. For full ALM coverage of the shutdown, click here. Read More » A federal judge overseeing the $9.6 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement with BP PLC has given the parties until Wednesday to suggest the best way to halt payments on some claims as required by a recent federal appeals decision. Read More » The first case on the first day of the new U.S. Supreme Court term—an age discrimination challenge—left a number of justices wondering why they had taken it—not exactly the most auspicious start to a new term. Read More » A federal appeals court debated Monday whether government properly used DNA evidence, gathered years earlier, to win convictions against a man for threating the lives of a number of politicians, including former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. Read More » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's interpretation of Miller v. Alabama, issued last week, deepens the divide among the circuits on the application of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion declaring mandatory life sentences for juveniles as unconstitutional. Read More » For the first time since 1996, the U.S. government has ground to a halt. The House of Representatives and the Senate are at odds over funding and all signs point to a continuing bitter fight. The National Law Journal and its sister publications at ALM will provide coverage throughout the shutdown. Read More » Since 2004, pit bulls have been banned in the city of Pawtucket, R.I. A suit has been brought to challenge that ban. Plus: a win for the Kardashians and an indefinite moratorium in this week's column. Read More » The "London Whale" — named for a trader's enormous bets — is far from the financial crime of the century, but it may well be the financial blunder of the decade. Read More » Judge Diane Wood, who on October 2 became chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, proposed in a recent speech that the United States abolish the Federal Circuit's exclusive jurisdiction in patent cases. Read More » To paraphrase Justice Louis Brandeis, sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. But the scrutiny, not all of which is well informed, is also leading to perverse consequences for some law firms. Read More » | 
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