Headlines • ACA Contraception Mandate Spurs Litigation Onslaught • On Second Thought… • Big Slump for LSAT • Patent Reform Push in Congress Draws Praise, Concern • Shield for Congress Tested • Abortion Ruling Fuels Debate • Tighter Regulations Amid the Fracking Fray • The Delicate Balance of Booting Judges • Booz Allen Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit • Maryland Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Two Tax Charges As the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, religious groups and employers are blanketing courts with suits that claim the provision is unconstitutional. Read More » Richard Posner is the latest judge to learn that while confession may be good for the soul, when a judge does the confessing, people sit up, notice and take potshots. Read More » Planning and budgeting for the future is a tough job for law school administrators these days — and yet another major decline in the pool of law school admissions test-takers won't make their task any easier. Read More » As a new patent reform bill moves quickly on Capitol Hill, some legislators, patent lawyers and judges have warned it contains sweeping and sometimes unintended changes to the nation's intellectual property landscape. Read More » A case before the D.C. Circuit is one of the last vestiges of the Jack Abramoff scandal, a wide-ranging U.S. Department of Justice corruption probe that ensnared nearly two dozen people, including lobbyists and public officials. Read More » Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated provisions in the Texas law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges in nearby hospitals. An appeal to the lower court's ruling is pending. These two opinion pieces were written before the appeals court made its ruling. Read More » The Bureau of Land Management's proposals could affect production on 700 million acres of land. Read More » Clients deserve impartiality, but alleging that a judge can't do the job fairly is a risky undertaking. Read More » On the eve of trial, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has settled with a former partner who accused the consulting firm of gender discrimination. The trial was scheduled to start today in District of Columbia Superior Court. On Oct. 23, Booz... Read More » By Alex Zank A Maryland lawyer pleaded guilty Friday to charges of filing a false tax return and failing to file a different tax return altogether. George Nelson Smith, 52, of the Smith Law Firm, falsely filed a tax return... Read More » | 
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