Headlines • Disabled Passenger Takes Airport Pat-Downs to First Circuit • Federal Judge Finds Gun Law Is Flawed But Largely Upholds • Law Firm Sues Facebook Over Scanning of 'Private' Messages • Skype Counts as Computer Depiction in Sex-Abuse Case • Shutdowns and Showdowns • In Congress, Learning To Love the Sequestration • A Bellwether Year on the Litigation Front • For Judges, a Year of Opinions Outside the Courtroom • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Smithsonian Goes to Court Over Bugs A federal appellate court is poised to consider whether the Transportation Security Administration's use of enhanced pat-downs of passengers with metal implants that set off walk-through metal detectors violates the Fourth Amendment and federal law. Read More » Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature gun-control measure, enacted in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre in December 2012, has largely survived a broad Second Amendment attack. Read More » Partner Michael Sobol accuses the social networking site of trampling users' privacy to sell targeted ads. Read More » Interactions and images relayed over the Internet-based telecommunications system Skype are considered to be "computer depictions" under Pennsylvania's child pornography laws, the state Superior Court has ruled. Read More » 2013 was the year that made the legal, judicial and political scenarios in "The Good Wife," "Homeland" or "House of Cards" look, well, plausible. Read More » GOP lawmakers thwarted progress on key issues, but Senate Democrats used high explosives to break a logjam on nominees. Read More » Test cases allow the parties to see which way the wind blows with juries and, perhaps, settle their disputes. Read More » Over the past year or so, several high-profile judges have given interviews to members of the media and written well-trafficked op-eds—frequently making news with their out-of-court opinions and sometimes criticizing one another. Read More » NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » The Smithsonian Institution has an insect problem. Not the kind that requires an exterminator, though—this one involves lawyers. The Smithsonian wants a federal judge to alter the terms of an endowment left by Carl Drake, a professor of entomology and... Read More » |
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