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Retired federal judge Stanley Sporkin has delivered his report on the disappearance of evidence in the Pershing Park mass arrest cases, urging further inquiry into the matter. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles recruited Sporkin, now a solo-practitioner, this past summer...
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General David Petraeus
legaltimes.typepad.com - 39 hours ago
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A federal appeals court today revived a suit
filed by the owner of a Virginia security company...
who was targeted, but not arrested, for prosecution in the District of Columbia on an unregistered firearms charge. The suit, filed last year...
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Federal Appeals Court Rules Against D.C. in Gun Suit
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A House judiciary subcommittee has scheduled a hearing
for Dec. 10 on the recusal of judges. The...
National Law Journal reported last month on lawmakers' renewed interest in the issue, including plans to examine the process that federal judges use...
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House Judiciary Schedules Hearing on Judge Recusals
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Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' surprise recusal
on Wednesday in a Florida property rights case may...
have been triggered by media inquiries about Stevens' Ft. Lauderdale property based on information provided last week by a group that filed a...
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Behind Justice Stevens' Recusal in Florida Case
It's been a busy week at the International Trade Commission, with four new, high-stakes intellectual property complaints filed in the last four days. Considering just 25 other cases have been filed all year, it's a quite a glut. On Dec....
World
War in Afghanistan: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, has answered U.S. entreaties for additional troops with an announcement that the alliance will contribute 7,000 additional troops to the 30,000 committed American troops President Barack Obama committed to the...
White House
Barack Obama
Harry Reid
Washington Post
Is it possible to interfere with a case once it has already been settled? Bethesda solo-practitioner Joel Joseph thinks not, and he has $1 million riding on whether a federal appeals court agrees. In 2001, Joseph sued his former law...
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Washington, D.C
A fight may be brewing between antitrust regulators at the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission over review of the Comcast/ NBC merger. The $30 billion deal, which was announced early this morning, calls for cable giant Comcast to...
Congress
The Virginia couple who the White House says crashed last week's state dinner has found new lawyers, including an associate at Dewey & LeBoeuf who's a former federal prosecutor and former U.S. Navy SEAL, a Republican congressman said today. The...
Congress
Homeland Security
When David Ogden wraps up his service at the Justice Department, there's a spot waiting for him in the Washington offices of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the firm's co-managing partner said today. Ogden, who left Wilmer to join...
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Washington, D.C
U.S. Justice Department senior official Kathryn Ruemmler is moving to the White House to become a deputy counsel to the president, an Obama administration official confirmed today. Ruemmler has been principal associate to David Ogden, the department's No. 2 official,...
White House
Huffington Post
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Updated at 10:28 a.m. By Mike Scarcella and
David Ingram The U.S. Justice Department announced this morning...
that its No. 2 official, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, is leaving in February after 11 months on the job. The decision is...
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Ogden to Resign, Effective in February
A High-Tech Proposal: Comcast and NBC Universal have announced a $30 billion merger that would create a new entertainment powerhouse with a far-reaching distribution network and a rich trove of television and movie programming, The Washington Post reports. The deal...
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Afghanistan
Barack Obama
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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s refusal
early this morning to hear the last-minute appeal of...
a Tennessee death row inmate, two justices clashed—one with some bite—over whether execution after lengthy delay is cruel and unusual punishment under the...
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Death Clash at the High Court
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Democratic senators have for months accused the U.S.
Supreme Court of stifling civil lawsuits. They’ve cited, most...
recently, the Court’s 5-4 decision this year in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, which added a new plausibility requirement for lawsuits. Today, in ...
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Former Solicitor General Feels the Wrath of Senators
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, dean of Georgetown University Law Center, is stepping down to take a high-level United Nations appointment at the end of January. In an e-mail sent to students and faculty, Aleinikoff said he had informed Georgetown President John...
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Howard Dean
Huffington Post
United Nations
A former government lawyer who successfully sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for age discrimination missed his shot to seek interest on the award he received for back pay, a federal appeals court in Washington said Tuesday. John Winslow sued...
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Washington, D.C
For more than a week, in a court hearing closed to the public, Justice Department lawyers defended the prosecution of five Blackwater security guards charged in the fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians who came under fire in a shoot-out...
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War in Afghanistan: President Barack Obama's plan for the way forward in Afghanistan will cost $30 billion, and Congress is going to have to come up with a way to pay for it, The Washington Post reports. In a prime-time...
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Afghanistan
Barack Obama
The judge who ruled that lawyers can't be forced to comply with new federal rules meant to prevent identity theft released his written opinion today. The 40-page document is pretty much in keeping with U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton's Oct....
