Virginia Abandons Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Ban

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Virginia Abandons Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Ban • Privacy Board Skeptical of Obama's NSA Reform Plan • Judge Denies Latest Effort to Dismiss Climate Scientist's Libel Suit • Voter ID Not Part of Commission Report • Target CFO to Discuss Data Breach With Senate Committee • BP Takes Bid to Rewrite Settlement to Full Fifth Circuit Virginia Abandons Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Ban 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 » Privacy Board Skeptical of Obama's NSA Reform Plan Members of a White House committee voiced concern today about President Barack Obama's suggestion to have private companies or a third party hold a vast database of phone records generated through government surveillance programs. Read More » Judge Denies Latest Effort to Dismiss Climate Scientist's Libel Suit Climate scientist Michael Mann has survived a second attempt to dismiss his defamation lawsuit against National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Read More » Voter ID Not Part of Commission Report The presidential commission that was tasked with reviewing and making recommendation about the election process stayed away from one of the country?s thorniest legal issues?the merits of voter identification laws. Read More » Target CFO to Discuss Data Breach With Senate Committee John Mulligan, the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Target Corp., is planning to travel to Capitol Hill next month to answer senators' questions about data breaches, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday. Read More » BP Takes Bid to Rewrite Settlement to Full Fifth Circuit 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 » SUPREME COURT CASES

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