NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Justices End Oklahoma Abortion Law Appeal • DOJ, JPMorgan Talks Ongoing, AG Holder Says • Federal Employees Sue for Damages Over Shutdown • DOJ in Settlement Talks in Honors Program Hiring Suit • NSA GC Clarifies Tech Industry's Role in Surveillance • D.C. to Pay $6.2M to Settle D.C. Jail Class Action • On Second Thought… • Big Slump for LSAT • Shield for Congress Tested • ACA Contraception Mandate Spurs Litigation Onslaught The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case involving Oklahoma's restrictions on the use of certain drugs to terminate pregnancies. The justices earlier had agreed to review the state law, which had been struck down by... Read More » The U.S. Department of Justice's ongoing settlement talks with JPMorgan Chase & Co. over faulty mortgage-backed securities have been productive and will be resolved "soon," one way or another, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said today. Amid recent reports that... Read More » A group of federal employees who worked without pay during the partial government shutdown last month are suing over alleged damages, claiming violations of federal labor law. The lawsuit accuses the government of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by... Read More » The U.S. Department of Justice is in talks to settle a lawsuit alleging department officials illegally screened job applicants based on their politics and ideology. At a hearing this morning before U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas Hogan, lawyers for the... Read More » Rajesh De, the National Security Agency's general counsel, sought to dispel concerns that the federal government and U.S. companies have close ties in NSA surveillance efforts, saying the agency's references to businesses as its "partners" in data collection have been... Read More » The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle allegations the city had a practice of holding inmates at the D.C. Jail past their release date and of wrongfully strip searching inmates who were supposed to be... 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 » 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 » 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 » | 
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