Clinton-Era Documents Detail White House Legal Discussions

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Clinton-Era Documents Detail White House Legal Discussions • DOJ Settles Honors Program Hiring Dispute • Bill Would Open Supreme Court to Audio Live Streaming • Senators Push to Protect Patent Process Funds • D.C. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard Sworn In • Coordination of Cases Sought in Hepatitis Litigation • Wiley Rein Sees Year of Steady Revenue, Income Clinton-Era Documents Detail White House Legal Discussions The latest release of previously secret documents from the Clinton White House offered a behind-the-scenes look into how the administration handled a U.S. Supreme Court decision and a billion-dollar fraud lawsuit against major tobacco companies. Here are those and some other high points from about 4,000 pages of documents—released Friday by The National Archives—that includes correspondence between Bill and Hillary Clinton and their aides. Read More » DOJ Settles Honors Program Hiring Dispute The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay $572,000 to settle a dispute over allegations that department officials illegally screened job applicants based on their political ideology. Read More » Bill Would Open Supreme Court to Audio Live Streaming An Illinois congressman on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at promoting transparency at the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary as well as in the executive and legislative branches. Read More » Senators Push to Protect Patent Process Funds A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would protect funding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, since Congress has diverted more than $1.1 billion from the office's user fees for other purposes in the past 20 years. Read More » D.C. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard Sworn In One of the newest judges confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Cornelia Pillard, was sworn in Thursday. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg administered the oath of office. Read More » Coordination of Cases Sought in Hepatitis Litigation Lawyers in at least nine class actions filed on behalf of consumers who were exposed to a recalled frozen berries mix sold at Costco Wholesale Corp. that caused a Hepatitis A outbreak have moved to coordinate the litigation for pretrial purposes. Read More » Wiley Rein Sees Year of Steady Revenue, Income Wiley Rein's revenues and profits per partner held nearly steady in a year when the firm saw big wins in court and some expansion internally. Revenue stayed around $232 million from 2012 to 2013. Profits per partner rose by about $7,000 per partner, to just under $1.2 million per partner Read More »

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