Judge Finds NSA Surveillance 'Almost Certainly' Violates Privacy Rights

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Judge Finds NSA Surveillance 'Almost Certainly' Violates Privacy Rights • Low Ethics and Honesty Marks For Lobbyists In New Poll • Judges Releases Report on Evidence Issues in Mass Arrests Case • Banks Draw Out Their Knives • After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees • Akin Gump Moves On After Millett Judge Finds NSA Surveillance 'Almost Certainly' Violates Privacy Rights The National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone records likely violates privacy rights of individual Americans, a federal trial judge in Washington ruled today. Describing the government's surveillance efforts as "almost-Orwellian," U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found the challengers in... Read More » Low Ethics and Honesty Marks For Lobbyists In New Poll Americans hold car salespeople and members of Congress in higher esteem than lobbyists, who are perceived to have the lowest ethical values among workers in more than 20 professions, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. Only 6 percent of... Read More » Judges Releases Report on Evidence Issues in Mass Arrests Case A federal magistrate judge in Washington today released a 157-page report detailing evidence and testimony in a dispute over the handling of evidence from mass arrests of protesters in downtown Washington in 2002. U.S. District Magistrate Judge John Facciola did... Read More » Banks Draw Out Their Knives When federal financial regulators last week adopted the massive Volcker Rule, it didn't mean their work was finished. If anything, lawyers say the work is just beginning. Read More » After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees Following a bitter legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over the scope of the Voting Rights Act, the challengers are again fighting the federal government — this time over legal fees. Read More » Akin Gump Moves On After Millett Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld spent months preparing for the departure of one of the firm's star appellate lawyers, Patricia Millett, who last week was confirmed for a slot on a key federal appeals court in Washington. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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