Headlines • Who You Calling Nonessential? For Agencies, A Balancing Act • High Court Wary of Another Campaign Contribution Barrier • Court: Small City Not Obliged to Defend Accused Embezzler • Rare Patent Injunction Praised on Appeal as 'Exemplary' • Op-ed: Congress, Look to the Supreme Court • Federal Government: Closed Until Further Notice • INADMISSIBLE: D.C. Judge Smacks House, DOJ Lawyers • Ethics Guardians Are Falling Behind • Jurist Questions Federal Circuit's Monopoly • In the Wake of the Whale, What's Changed? Essential versus nonessential. For millions of federal workers, it's a critical distinction, and one that agency inspectors general are likely to take a close look at once the government shutdown ends. Read More » The worst fears of campaign finance reformers played out in real time on Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court as a majority of justices appeared inclined to make another major inroad on the regulation of money in elections. 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 » A federal appeals court ruling upholding a relatively rare permanent patent injunction offered guidance about how such injunctions can withstand judicial review. 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 » 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 » U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson needed only one week to deliver cutting ripostes to both sides of one of the most closely watched separation-of-powers cases in Washington. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » Legal ethics boards are trying to micromanage the use of the Internet by lawyers, rather than target actual deceptive practices that are obvious on their face. 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 » 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 » | 
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