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Obama Vows Closure of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp

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Obama Vows Closure of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp

President Barack Obama said he will again press to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, calling it "not something that's in the best interest of the American people." "I'm going to go back at this," Obama said at... Read More »

As Mergers Decline, Antitrust Enforcement Climbs

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today released their annual antitrust report, showing a slight decline in the number of mergers reviewed by the government last year but a jump in enforcement actions by the FTC. In... Read More »

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Former Bush Administration Lawyer Asks Judge for Probation

Federal prosecutors will not oppose a sentence of probation for a former George W. Bush administration lawyer who's charged in Washington with the destruction of government property. Prosecutors in December charged Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of... Read More »

DOJ Asks Judge to End Suit Over Afghan War Memoir

The Justice Department has renewed its effort to shut down a lawsuit in Washington over the scope of information a former U.S. defense intelligence officer can publish in a memoir about service in the war in Afghanistan. DOJ lawyers said... Read More »

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Q&A: Nixon Peabody's Jeffrey Lesk

On days when he commutes by bicycle to the office, Jeffrey Lesk uses what he calls his Superman closet. In it Lesk, the managing partner of Nixon Peabody's Washington office, keeps suits, shirts and ties for a quick, post-shower change... Read More »

Is Law Faculty Tenure In or Out? ABA Can't Decide

The committee updating the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards hopes to wrap up its initial review by the end of 2013, but the group remains nowhere near a consensus regarding job protections for law faculty—perhaps the most controversial item on its agenda. Read More »

SUPREME COURT CASES

McBurney v. Young

Virginia statute restricting public records access to Virginia citizens only does not violate either Privileges and Immunities Clause or dormant Commerce Clause (Alito, J.) Read More »

Moncrieffe v. Holder

Where noncitizen's conviction for marijuana distribution offense did not establish offense involved remuneration or more than small amount of marijuana, offense was not aggravated felony under immigration law (Sotomayor, J.) Read More »

Missouri v. McNeely

Natural dissipation of alcohol in suspected drunk driver's bloodstream does not by itself necessarily constitute exigency sufficient to justify warrantless blood test (Sotomayor, J.) Read More »

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.

Presumption against extraterritorial application of U.S. law applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute, and nothing in that legislation rebuts that presumption (Roberts, C.J.) Read More »

US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen

Terms of employer's ERISA plan take precedence over unjust enrichment principles with regard to employer's action under ERISA to recover funds advanced to injured employee (Kagan, J.) Read More »

Genesis Healthcare Corporation v. Symczyk

Mootness of plaintiff's individual claim precluded her prosecution of Fair Labor Standards Act collective action (Thomas, J.) Read More »



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Is Law Faculty Tenure In or Out? ABA Can't Decide

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Is Law Faculty Tenure In or Out? ABA Can't Decide

The committee updating the American Bar Association's law school accreditation standards hopes to wrap up its initial review by the end of 2013, but the group remains nowhere near a consensus regarding job protections for law faculty—perhaps the most controversial item on its agenda. Read More »

Circuit Favors Narrow Language in Funeral-Protest Ban

A federal appeals court favored the specific over the ill-defined in ruling that Missouri's blanket ban on protests during funerals violates the First Amendment's free-speech clause because it "creates a buffer zone of an indeterminate size." Read More »

Court Upholds Virginia FOIA Restrictions

The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the information industry and to open-government advocates on Monday, unanimously upholding a Virginia law that restricts the right of access to public documents to in-state residents. Read More »

UCLA Professor Faces Trial in Fatal Lab Fire

A chemistry professor must stand trial on felony charges stemming from a 2008 laboratory fire that killed a 23-year-old research assistant, a state trial judge has ordered. Read More »

Bricker & Eckler Boosts Health Law Group

Bricker & Eckler has added three attorneys to its health care group, including partner Steve Kleinman, who joins from Ice Miller. Read More »

Why Are There No Puerto Rican Scamblogs?

Compared to its peers in the United States proper, the island commonwealth's three ABA-accredited law schools perform appallingly, yet no one protests. Read More »

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One Prescription for Medical Device and Drug Law

Any Supreme Court decision in this case will not unify the law. Congress needs to step in and create a unified medical device and brand/generic drug system that does not draw arbitrary distinctions. Read More »

Big Law's Bamboo Ceiling—Is It Finally Broken?

Asian Americans have never been more confident. So why do they still feel left out in the world of Big Law? Read More »

The Careerist: Big Law's Bamboo Ceiling—Is It Finally Broken?

Asian Americans are on a roll. So why do they still feel left out in the world of Big Law? Read More »



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