NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Attorney Fees Mount in Medicaid Litigation • Court: Fired Ex-Prosecutor Can Challenge Termination • 1,000 Federal Workers Join Suit Over Shutdown Pay • Federal Lobbying Spending Down for Third Year in a Row • Ninth Circuit Vindicates Publicity Rights of Hendrix Kin • No Easy Answers for Challenges Facing Law Schools Attorney fees continue to mount in a decades-old class action against the District of Columbia over the provision of health care services to children in low-income households. Read More » A former assistant U.S. attorney in Texas can challenge her firing, a federal appeals court has ruled, finding that the seven months she worked while her background check was pending counted towards her two-year trial period. Read More » More than 1,000 "essential" federal employees who had to work during the government shutdown have joined a lawsuit alleging the government owes them money for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. Read More » Spending for federal lobbying was down for a third consecutive year, with business associations taking the biggest hit in 2013, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis released Wednesday. Read More » A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of Washington's publicity rights law in a trademark dispute over the rights to singer and guitarist Jimi Hendrix's name and likeness. Read More » "If I was asked four or five years ago whether legal education was going to be such a critically important topic for the legal profession, I would have come up with the wrong answer," ABA president James Silkenat said at a panel discussion at the NYSBA annual meeting. "But now [it] is of real and immediate importance." Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES | 
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