Headlines • University of Iowa Law Cuts Tuition Amid Enrollment Decline • Settling Copyright Case, File Storage Site to Pay $80M • House Passes Innovation Act to Curb Patent Trolls • D.C. Courts Get an 'F' for Judges' Financial Disclosures • Rutgers-Camden Law School Fined for Waiving LSAT • Justices Skeptical of First Amendment Claims in Protester's Case • Appeals Court Hears Arguments in GPS Tracking Cases • Feds Defend New Manslaughter Case Against Blackwater Guards • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? • D.C. Superior Court Senior Judges Challenge Salaries The University of Iowa College of Law is the latest law school to slash tuition amid declining enrollment. Iowa residents next year will pay $21,965 in tuition—a $4,309 reduction—and the reduced tuition will apply to both current and new students. Non-residents who enroll next fall will see tuition fall by $7,750 to $39,500. Read More » The motion picture industry is touting the $80 million judgment that shut down the popular web file-hosting site Hotfile Corp. as the first in which a U.S. court has ruled on whether a so-called "cyberlocker" can be liable for copyright infringement. 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 | The U.S. House of Representatives passed patent reform legislation that would bring sweeping changes the intellectual property landscape and curb litigation abuse by so-called patent trolls. Read More » When it comes to disclosing judges' salaries, investments, gifts and other financial information, the District of Columbia recently received a failing grade in a nationwide survey. The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization, gave 41 states plus... Read More » 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 » 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 » 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 » Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. 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 » | 
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