NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • In Search of a Solution to the Internet Sales Tax Puzzle • Judge Dismisses Occupy D.C. Lawsuit • Defense Contractor's Bribery Conviction Upheld on Appeal • Who Will be Star Witnesses If Dewey Case Goes to Trial? • Judge Blocks Government's Destruction of NSA Surveillance Data • Government Errors Are Shrouded in Secrecy Tax experts and lawyers for both online and brick-and-mortar retailers on Wednesday urged Congress to pass Internet sales tax legislation—but they couldn't agree on what the bill should look like. Read More » A federal judge in Washington has dismissed one of the remaining lawsuits filed during the Occupy D.C. protests in 2011. Read More » A defense contractor convicted of bribing former U.S. Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham will head to prison after a federal appeals court declined to give him a new trial. Read More » Prosecutors will need more than damning emails to secure convictions of the four men accused of engineering a massive accounting fraud that helped hasten Dewey & LeBoeuf's collapse. Read More » U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, who is presiding over suits challenging the NSA's widespread collection of telephone call data, granted an emergency motion Monday to prevent possible evidence from being purged. Read More » The last two administrations have unfairly used state-secrets privilege to cover for their mistakes. Read More » | 
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