NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Judicial Nominee Gets Confirmation Hearing After Two Years • Ex-Clinton Counsel Named Office of Government Ethics GC • Steptoe to Open Office in Silicon Valley • Nissan Settles False Advertising Charges • Virginia Abandons Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Ban • Lawyer Won Improved Conditions on Louisiana Death Row Arizona lawyer Rosemary Marquez is poised to get her confirmation hearing next week—more than two years after she was first nominated to be a federal district court judge. Read More » David Apol, a government ethics lawyer and onetime counsel to President Bill Clinton, has become the general counsel of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, the agency announced Thursday. Read More » In its first foray into Northern California, Steptoe & Johnson LLP next week will open a new office in Silicon Valley, poaching two IP partners from King & Spalding to lead the Palo Alto outpost. Read More » Nissan North America Inc. and its ad agency settled a false advertising suit by the Federal Trade Commission, which complained that a spot showing a Nissan Frontier pickup truck zipping up a steep hill of sand to rescue a stranded dune buggy was misleading. Read More » Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed court papers Thursday morning alerting a federal judge that he would no longer defend the state's ban on same-sex marriage. Read More » Excessive heat at a prison qualifies as "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment, a federal judge said in a groundbreaking ruling last month. Mitchell Kamin, who worked with Promise of Justice Initiative in New Orleans in representing the inmates pro bono, talked to the NLJ about the case. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES | 
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