Headlines • Virginia Abandons Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Ban • Member's Bias Claim Against Teacher Union Reinstated • Lawyer Won Improved Conditions on Louisiana Death Row • Nissan Settles False Advertising Charges • Penn Law Doubles Down on Public-Interest Grants for Grads • Patton Boggs Hired in Bridgegate by Christie Campaign, New Jersey GOP • State Whistleblowing Laws Provide Whopping Verdicts • Seattle In-House Legal Departments of the Year • BP Takes Bid to Rewrite Settlement to Full Fifth Circuit • Challenges Ahead for FCC Over Internet Rules 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 » A federal appeals court has revived a Title VII lawsuit by a teacher who claimed his union abandoned him because of his race, rejecting a trial judge's conclusion that unions enjoy limited liability under that law. 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 » 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 » The Catalyst Grant fellowships will provide stipends for between six and eight graduates who take up yearlong volunteer attorney stints in federal, state or local government; in public defender offices; or in nongovernmental organizations or international tribunals. Read More » The latest subpoenaed parties to lawyer up in the fast-moving investigation into George Washington Bridge lane closures last fall are Gov. Chris Christie's re-election campaign and the New Jersey Republican State Committee, who on Thursday retained Patton Boggs. 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 » Corporate counsel leading the way in compliance, outside counsel management, diversity and deal work. 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 » The Federal Communications Commission once again has come up short in its attempt to regulate broadband Internet service providers, but the decision last week by a divided panel of federal appellate judges in some ways also strengthened the agency's hand — and sets the stage for a potentially epic showdown over new rules. Read More » | 
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