Headlines • Justices Sit Out Internet Retailers' Sales Tax Dispute • States Urge Justices to Curtail Indian Tribal Immunity • Appeals Court Ponders Arbitration of Legal Malpractice Claim • Justice Dept. Sued Over Access to Non-Prosecution Agreement • D.C. Superior Court Senior Judges Challenge Salaries • Dueling Bills Take Aim At 'Patent Trolls' • Law Students, Grads Head In-House • Digital Library Aids Lawyers in NLRB Case • Lawyers Fight Over Counsel Access at Guantánamo Bay • For Feds, Boston Cases Pose Death Penalty Question Intentionally or not, the U.S. Supreme Court chose Cyber Monday to announce it would not slow down the march of states seeking to impose sales taxes on Internet retail purchases. Read More » The state of Michigan, backed by more than a dozen other states, on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to curtail Indian tribes' immunity from lawsuits over their commercial activities. Read More » A federal appeals court weighed whether a law firm can keep a client's malpractice claim out of court if the two sides have a contract calling for arbitration of all disputes. Read More » The U.S. Department of Justice is being sued over its refusal to publicly disclose a $2 million non-prosecution agreement prosecutors reached with a Houston-based tree services company that employed undocumented workers. The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of... Read More » Three senior judges in the District of Columbia Superior Court are suing the federal government over their retirement salaries, claiming their pay is too low. In a complaint filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,... Read More » In the battle against "patent trolls," two competing bills on Capitol Hill have emerged as the leading solutions to curb abusive patent litigation. Read More » A handful of efforts recently launched by law schools and bar associations provide recent graduates with practical experience in corporate law departments and perhaps lead to permanent jobs, challenging a prevalent notion that new lawyers don't belong in-house. Read More » The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court argument over the president's power to make recess appointments has sent lawyers and researchers hunting through centuries-old documents for historical evidence to prove just how broad or narrow the power is. Read More » Lawyers for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, say a new search policy adopted earlier this year put their clients in an impossible situation: submit to religiously and culturally offensive groin-area frisks, or forgo meeting with attorneys. Read More » Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts, where the death penalty was abolished nearly 30 years ago, face the rare prospect of two simultaneous capital cases for unrelated killings that happened more than a decade apart. Read More » | 
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