Headlines • Retired Judges Prevail in Suit Over Pension Adjustments • Virginia Federal Judge Strikes Same-Sex Marriage Ban • Firm Faces Trial on Claims Arising from Long-Ago Earthquake • Am Law Firms Feast on Comcast's Big Time Warner Buy • Professor Alleges Law School Failed to Accommodate PTSD • DOJ Warns 'Repeat Offenders' with $425 Million Bridgestone Fine • Abolitionists Will Lose Ground By Fighting Marathon Bomber Case • From Oscar Parties to 'Inter Partes' • Movers • Court Nixes Bid to Stay E-Books Monitor as Apple Presses Appeal In Baird v. United States, Judge Eric Bruggink recently held a statute of limitations does not bar a suit by 22 retired district court judges. Read More » A federal district judge in Virginia on Thursday declared unconstitutional the state ban on same-sex marriage. The judge stayed her ruling, however, to allow review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Trade & the Global Environment  Through panel discussions with scholars and practitioners, this symposium on Feb. 18 addresses issues in int'l trade and the environment by facilitating dialogue on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, Article XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, enforcement, and future means of protecting the environment through int'l trade. LEARN MORE | Homeowners who claim their former attorneys might have misappropriated nearly one-fourth of a $100 million settlement over property damage caused by the 1994 Northridge earthquake can sue for fraud, a California appellate panel has ruled. Read More » Davis Polk and Willkie are advising Comcast, which announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to buy Time Warner Cable in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $67 billion, including some $21.8 billion in assumed debt. Paul Weiss and Skadden are representing Time Warner in the matter, and Simpson Thacher has also landed a role. Read More » A law professor who was held captive in Rwanda for three weeks in 2010 has sued William Mitchell College of Law, claiming the school failed to accommodate the post-traumatic stress disorder that resulted from his ordeal. Read More » The Justice Department has a message for companies in trouble for fixing prices: If you're going to come clean, you better not hold back. Read More » U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to seek the death penalty in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev puts the abolitionist community in a bind. Read More » We range widely in this look at the state of intellectual property law, beginning with the legal complications attorneys need to consider when negotiating endorsement deals with the stars. We also investigate the renewed respect being paid to the "indefiniteness" defense against business-method patents. Finally, "inter partes" review — an attempt to streamline patent disputes — may in some cases make the process more difficult. Read More » Patricia Hennessy joins Conrad O'Brien as co-chairwoman of the education law group in the West Chester, Pa., office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column. Read More » Apple lost its bid to stop court-appointed e-books monitor Michael Bromwich in his tracks, at least for now. But Apple's lawyers at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher nevertheless succeeded in curtailing Bromwich's authority as they continue fighting the government's antitrust case. Read More » | 
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