Supreme Court Will Review Contraceptive Coverage in Health Care Law

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Supreme Court Will Review Contraceptive Coverage in Health Care Law • Latham & Watkins Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit • Senate GOP Asks Justices to Find Recess Appointments Invalid • Treading Carefully, FTC Delays Ruling in Pipe Fitting Case • Corporate Lawyer Lesmes Joins Morrison & Foerster • Cigar Industry Fires Up DC Lobbying Effort Supreme Court Will Review Contraceptive Coverage in Health Care Law Setting up another constitutional showdown over the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will hear two cases challenging, on religious grounds, the requirement that most employers provide health insurance coverage for contraception including so-called "morning after" methods.... Read More » Latham & Watkins Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit Latham & Watkins has reached a settlement with a former legal secretary who accused the firm of pregnancy discrimination. Demetria Peart, who worked at the firm's Washington office as a legal secretary from April 2007 to January 2008, said she... Read More » Senate GOP Asks Justices to Find Recess Appointments Invalid Senate Republicans weighed in Monday on the U.S. Supreme Court showdown over recess appointments, arguing that President Obama overreached his constitutional authority when he placed three members on the National Labor Relations Board. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and... Read More » Treading Carefully, FTC Delays Ruling in Pipe Fitting Case Under fire by members of Congress for holding in-house proceedings where the agency always wins, the Federal Trade Commission has delayed issuing a competition-related administrative decision. The agency's four politically appointed commissioners last week were due to rule on a... Read More » Corporate Lawyer Lesmes Joins Morrison & Foerster Only weeks after a prominent corporate lawyer left O'Melveny & Myers for Morrison & Foerster in Washington, another has followed suit. Scott Lesmes joins Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firm's corporate finance practice, the firm announced Monday.... Read More » Cigar Industry Fires Up DC Lobbying Effort More than a dozen small businesses in the cigar industry have come together to stub out proposed tobacco regulations and taxes in Washington, D.C. The Small Business Cigar Coalition, an informal association of 15 makers of cigars and related products,... Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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