NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Supreme Court Protester Sentenced to Time Served • Suit Challenging Senate Filibuster Rule Fails in D.C. Circuit • RNC Sues IRS Over Document Request • New Maryland Law Dean Is Tax, Campaign Law Expert • Ninth Circuit Sustains Attorney's Extortion Conviction With the U.S. Supreme Court's lawyer watching, the protester who was arrested for disrupting oral argument on Feb. 26 pleaded guilty Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court and was given a light sentence. Read More » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today decided not to step too deep in a challenge to the Senate's filibuster rule. The appeals court today struck down a suit in which the challengers, led by the advocacy group Common Cause, sued over the constitutionality of the Senate's filibuster rule. Read More » The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing the agency of failing to respond to a request for documents about the review of organizations seeking tax-exempt status. Read More » Donald Tobin, a professor at Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, will be the next dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Read More » A California attorney serving prison time for attempting to extort money from the lawyer representing a rabbi in an immigration visa fraud investigation has failed to convince a federal appeals court to reverse his conviction. Read More » |
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