Headlines • Unions' Health on the Line • OSHA's Proposed Database Draws Fire • 'Windsor' Extended • Federal Courts Websites Target of Computer Attack • Sitting Out: Recusals Mount Among the Justices • McDonnell Turns to Big Name Defenders • Innovations in Law Firm Technology • INADMISSIBLE: Privacy Board Divided Over NSA Program • State Whistleblowing Laws Provide Whopping Verdicts • BP Takes Bid to Rewrite Settlement to Full Fifth Circuit The future of public employee unions may be in the hands of Justice Antonin Scalia as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case brought by Illinois home care workers who don't want to pay fees to a union they don't want to join. Read More » A federal government proposal to make workplace illness and injury records public amounts to "regulation by shaming," say employers, who have tapped top lawyers to derail the controversial initiative by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Read More » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has become the first federal appellate court to rule explicitly that laws denying equal protection to gays and lesbians are subject to heightened judicial scrutiny — a decision that could have enormous ramifications in civil rights litigation all over the western United States. Read More » Federal court websites, including the electronic filing system, were the target of a computer attack Friday afternoon, disrupting public access to case information and interrupting the filing of documents. Read More » The growing pace of recusals by U.S. Supreme Court justices this term is fueling new concern about the court's ability to function at full strength. Read More » Former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, accused of illegally accepting payments in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement company, are fighting back with big-name Washington-area white-collar lawyers on their defense. Read More » The past few years have been momentous for law firms and their use of technology. In the electronic discovery area alone, innovations including predictive coding have found acceptance by the courts. Read More » Mirroring different rulings from two federal district judges, an independent White House privacy board is divided over the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » Employers have finally started to recognize that the risks attendant to whistleblower claims in federal legislation can be enormous. But what about state whistleblower laws? Read More » BP PLC has petitioned an en banc panel of a federal appeals court to rehear a three-judge panel's recent decision upholding the fairness of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement. Read More » | 
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