Former Virginia Governor Charged With Illegally Accepting Gifts

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Former Virginia Governor Charged With Illegally Accepting Gifts • Filibuster Challenge Meets Resistance in D.C. Circuit • Lawyer Blames 'Overzealous Prosecutors' for Failed Piracy Case • After Chemical Spills, Senators Take Aim at Cleanup Law • Retired Magistrate Judge Tapped for Judicial Review Commission • A Wiretap Case in New Light • Legal Aid Demand Outpaces Program Growth, Providers Say Former Virginia Governor Charged With Illegally Accepting Gifts The former governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell, and his wife were indicted today in a Virginia federal court on charges they illegally accepted gifts, loans and other payments. Read More » Filibuster Challenge Meets Resistance in D.C. Circuit Washington's federal appellate court appeared unlikely Tuesday to revive a nonprofit group's lawsuit seeking to strike down the Senate's filibuster rule. Read More » Lawyer Blames 'Overzealous Prosecutors' for Failed Piracy Case Federal prosecutors have abandoned their pursuit of a second trial against a Somali man accused of aiding high seas pirates. Now facing deportation, Ali Mohamed Ali plans to seek asylum, his lawyer said. Read More » After Chemical Spills, Senators Take Aim at Cleanup Law Following a molasses spill in Hawaii last year and a chemical leak in West Virginia this month, Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and Brian Schatz of Hawaii are trying to close a "loophole" that allows the companies responsible for these incidents to avoid paying for the cleanup. Read More » Retired Magistrate Judge Tapped for Judicial Review Commission Joan Goldfrank, a former magistrate judge in the District of Columbia Superior Court, is the newest member of a commission that investigates complaints against local judges and evaluates judges for reappointment. Read More » A Wiretap Case in New Light Keith Forsyth, one of the peace activists identified for the first time recently as a participant in the burglary of a Pennsylvania FBI office in 1971, has another claim to fame: He was the named party in a Fourth Amendment dispute that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985. Read More » Legal Aid Demand Outpaces Program Growth, Providers Say Today, legal services lawyers serve clients living below the federal poverty line in rural, suburban and urban areas across the country. But legal services lawyers warn the expansion of legal aid during the past 50 years has failed to keep pace with demand. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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