Headlines • Munger Partners, Up for Ninth Circuit, Disclose Pay • Sanctioned Attorney Seeks Exoneration in Porn IP Scheme • Court Tells Parties to Streamline Greenhouse Gas Arguments • Justices Agree to Define Mental Retardation in Death Cases • Debate Escalates Over Mugshot-Removal Outfits • Judge Rejects Siemens Whistleblower Lawsuit • Patent Court Sets the Pace • The Case of the Poisoned Mailbox • Justice Department Lawyers Return to Work • Court Weighs Injunction for Health Care Law Regulation Two Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partners nominated for seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reported earning a combined $1.6 million from the firm during 2012, according to congressional records. Read More » A California attorney sanctioned for his role in a nationwide fraud scheme targeting alleged infringers of pornography copyrights claims that he should be exonerated so that he could testify against his former colleagues. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Online Certificate Program Nov. 4-Dec. 13, 2013 AUWCL's Online Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration prepares participants with the foundational knowledge and skills to succeed in the complex and ever-changing field of international arbitration. The online courses explore legal principles and practical implications of commercial and investment arbitration. Apply Now. | The U.S. Supreme Court has given lawyers until Oct. 22 to figure out how to trim down the complex set of cases challenging government regulation of greenhouse gases that the justices will hear early next year. Read More » More than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision barring execution of the mentally retarded, the justices on Monday agreed to examine how to determine mental disability in capital cases. Read More » Google Inc.'s recent programming change, moving people's arrest mugshots much lower in search engine results, has sparked a debate about First Amendment and privacy. Goodwin Procter Boston partner Brenda Sharton, who chairs the firm's privacy & data security practice, spoke with NLJ about the situation. Read More » A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed allegations that a Chinese subsidiary of Siemens AG violated the Dodd-Frank Act, ruling that the law's whistleblower protection provisions don't apply extraterritorially. Read More » Drawn by the promise of speed and expertise, scores of megacorporations from Apple Inc. to Toyota Motor Corp. are flocking to the hottest new forum for intellectual property fights: the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Read More » She was a woman wronged, doubly betrayed by a cheating husband who impregnated her best friend. They were aggressive Feds, willing to wield the law like a sledgehammer. An act of revenge brought them together and thrust them on the road to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More » U.S. Department of Justice lawyers across the country will be back in court after an untold number of civil cases were put on hold during the government shutdown. More than 18,000 Justice Department employees, including a significant number of lawyers... Read More » A group of individuals and small businesses today asked a federal judge to block the IRS from enforcing a tax credit provision of the Obama administration's health care law. The plaintiffs argue the Internal Revenue Service is expanding the Affordable... Read More » | 
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