Headlines • Summer Trial Set in Alleged Boston Bombing Cover-Up • Apple to Refund $32M to Settle FTC Charges • Oregon To Let Students Complete 3L Year in Portland • Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Divides Justices • Judge Skeptical of Pharmaceutical-Rationing Lawsuit • Firm Commits to Assisting Human Trafficking Victims • In-House Counsel Profile: Maidie E. Oliveau, pro bono general counsel for the Special Olympics World Games • With Stem Cell Therapy, the FDA is Far Afield of its Licensing Power • New Chairman at Steptoe Eyes the Future • Court Sidesteps 'Novel' Defense Involving Armed IRS Agents A federal judge on Wednesday set a June 23 trial date for three friends accused of covering up for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Read More » Apple Inc. will pay at least $32.5 million in consumer refunds to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it wrongly billed parents millions of dollars for unauthorized charges incurred by their children in kids? mobile apps. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: AUWCL Semester Abroad Law Programs AU Washington College of Law provides students with unique educational opportunities through legal semester exchange programs in 22 countries across 6 continents. Gain focus in different areas of law such as Arbitration, Business, Intellectual Property, Human Rights, International Trade, European Union, Environment, and Maritime. Apply by March 1 to enrich your academic experience and expand your global network. Visit wcl.american.edu/summer/abroad today! | University of Oregon law students may soon have the option to complete their 3L years in Portland—110 miles from the main campus in Eugene. Read More » A Massachusetts law creating a 35-foot no-protest zone around abortion clinics appeared in jeopardy Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court questioned the sweep of its restriction on free speech. Read More » A Boston federal judge criticized the pleadings in two unusual purported class actions against Genzyme Corp. over its rationing of the drug Fabrazyme, complaining that just one of more than 70 plaintiffs appears to have a valid claim. Read More » Husch Blackwell partner Cynthia Cordes talks to NLJ about the the complexities of enforcing laws against human trafficking and the law clinic she leads that will provide pro bono representation to human trafficking victims. Read More » Maidie E. Oliveau was part of the team that landed the Los Angeles Special Olympics in 2011 and has spent more than 300 hours setting up the legal apparatus for next year's games. Read More » Push to treat the molecular process as a drug will hinder advances in medicine. Read More » With just over 400 lawyers, Steptoe & Johnson LLP is neither large nor small, not wildly profitable or struggling to get by. For new executive committee chairman Philip West, who took the helm Jan. 1, the question now is whether being in the middle is enough. Read More » A federal appeals court has rejected a tax protester's claim that evidence seized during a search of his property must be tossed out because the IRS agents enforcing a warrant carried guns without statutory authority. Read More » | 
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