D.C. Circuit Says: No Nuclear Waste Site, No Fees On Utilities

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • D.C. Circuit Says: No Nuclear Waste Site, No Fees On Utilities • D.C. Circuit Denies Terror Victims Access to Frozen Funds • 'Patent Troll' Bills Moving Up in Senate and House • Shunning Politics, John Edwards Returns to the Law • Obama to Fight for D.C. Circuit Nominees • Rarified Credentials Still Favored in Law Faculty Hiring D.C. Circuit Says: No Nuclear Waste Site, No Fees On Utilities With no viable government alternative to the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site, the nation's nuclear utilities should not have to pay the annual fee to cover proposed disposal costs, ruled a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of... Read More » D.C. Circuit Denies Terror Victims Access to Frozen Funds Hundreds of thousands of dollars tied to Iranian financial institutions and frozen by U.S. banks remain off-limits to terrorism victims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today. The problem, the court said, was the lack of... Read More » 'Patent Troll' Bills Moving Up in Senate and House "Patent trolls" are taking center stage in Congress this week, with new legislation in the Senate to curb abusive patent litigation and a markup Wednesday of a similar bill in the House of Representatives. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike... Read More » Shunning Politics, John Edwards Returns to the Law Former U.S. senator and two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has renounced any further political ambitions and returned to the practice of law. Read More » Obama to Fight for D.C. Circuit Nominees President Obama does not intend to "just sit idly by" as Republicans continue to thwart his administration's three picks for a key federal appeals court in Washington, senior White House officials said Monday. Read More » Rarified Credentials Still Favored in Law Faculty Hiring Pedigree trumps diversity when it comes to law faculty hiring. That's one takeaway from a study of the hiring market by Vanderbilt University Law School professor Tracey George and Albert Yoon of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Read More »

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