Friday, December 20, 2013

Protester's Claim of Unlawful Arrest for Profanity Can Proceed

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON

• Protester's Claim of Unlawful Arrest for Profanity Can Proceed

• Auto Lender to Pay $100M for Unintentional Discrimination

• Boies Schiller Partner Nominated to D.C. Federal Trial Court

• The Congressional Gift Policy, Rendered in Rhyme

• Claims Against Border Agents Revived on Appeal

• Kansas' Unauthorized LL.M. Program Draws ABA Censure

Protester's Claim of Unlawful Arrest for Profanity Can Proceed

An Occupy D.C. protester who claims he was unconstitutionally arrested for using profanity can proceed with his claims, a Washington federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson yesterday denied the government's bid to dismiss claims against three U.S.... Read More »

Auto Lender to Pay $100M for Unintentional Discrimination

A major auto lender will pay nearly $100 million to settle charges by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the U.S. Department of Justice that it unintentionally discriminated against minority borrowers, charging them more for loans than white applicants with... Read More »

Boies Schiller Partner Nominated to D.C. Federal Trial Court

Tanya Chutkan, a partner in the Washington office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, is President Barack Obama's latest pick to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Chutkan was one of eight U.S. district court nominees... Read More »

The Congressional Gift Policy, Rendered in Rhyme

'Twas a handful of days before Christmas and all through Washington, not a House member was stirring, not even a Republican. The members were nestled all snug in their districts, with visions of the House Ethics Committee and the gifts... Read More »

Claims Against Border Agents Revived on Appeal

A federal appeals court has revived claims that the U.S. Border Patrol illegally stopped, searched and in some cases detained people who looked Hispanic at the Sandusky Bay Station in Ohio, at the Canadian border. Read More »

Kansas' Unauthorized LL.M. Program Draws ABA Censure

The University of Kansas School of Law must pay a $50,000 fine for admitting two foreign attorneys into a new LL.M. program that the American Bar Association had not approved. Read More »

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