Headlines • Rutgers-Camden Law School Fined for Waiving LSAT • Justices Skeptical of First Amendment Claims in Protester's Case • IP Groups Express Unease Over Patent Reform Bill • In Oracle-Google Fight, Federal Circuit Ready to Reverse Alsup • Feds Defend New Manslaughter Case Against Blackwater Guards • SEC Strikes Out in Court in Kansas Fraud Case • INADMISSIBLE: Ten Months Later—No PTO Chief In Sight • D.C. Judge Reproached for 'Inappropriate' Comments • FTC Seeks New Privacy Authority • Appeals Court Hears Arguments in GPS Tracking Cases The American Bar Association has censured and fined Rutgers School of Law-Camden $25,000 for admitting students who had not taken the Law School Admission Test. Read More » The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to give First Amendment protection to a California peace activist who has been barred from demonstrating at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John's Flexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops.
Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian | A patent reform bill set for a Dec. 5 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives has intellectual property groups worried the sweeping language will do more harm than good in solving thorny patent litigation problems. Read More » Google lawyer Robert Van Nest tried to defend the judge's decision on copyrightability before a clearly skeptical panel. Read More » Federal prosecutors in Washington today began defending the government's new case against four former Blackwater security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead. Read More » The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission came up empty-handed after a nearly three-week trial in federal court in Kansas when a jury rejected all 12 of the agency's claims against Stephen Kovzan, chief financial officer of NIC Inc. The SEC... Read More » It's hard to find a hotter topic than patent reform right now on Capitol Hill. It's even harder to find what the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has to say about it. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » In a rare public rebuke, a judicial review commission found District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Natalia Combs Greene made "inappropriate" comments to litigants in court and at times behaved in a manner that was "rude" and "intimidating." The D.C.... Read More » The Federal Trade Commission is about to turn 100, and agency leaders have some gift suggestions for Congress—new privacy legislation plus a statutory change that would position the FTC as the net neutrality cop. Read More » A federal appeals court on Tuesday heard two cases about warrantless tracking, a procedure fraught with uncertainty in the wake of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held such GPS uses are Fourth Amendment searches. Read More » | 
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