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The Morning Wrap
Defending: Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. says he's confident prosecutors didn't botch any guidelines in the collection of phone records from The Associated Press, telling reporters that the investigation of a leak required "very aggressive" action. The National Law Journal... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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DOJ Defends Review of Associated Press Phone Records
Updated 11:20 p.m. The U.S. Justice Department is defending its review of two months of phone records for a group of reporters and editors at the Associated Press, which called the government action "a massive and unprecedented intrusion" into newsgathering.... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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DOJ Asks D.C. Circuit to Keep Surveillance Law Memo Secret
The Justice Department wants to keep secret an internal legal memo that addresses the scope of the authority under which the FBI can seek records from telecommunications companies. DOJ lawyers have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The Morning Wrap
Facing scrutiny: FBI Director Robert Mueller III's "12-year tenure under two presidents is facing scrutiny, months from his longtime plans to step down in September, as hearings begin on Capitol Hill into what happened in Boston and why," The New... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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DOJ Report Urges Prison Reform for Compassionate Release
A comprehensive review of the federal prison system’s compassionate release program revealed a lack of standards for the evaluation of whether an inmate qualifies for a reduction in sentence, according to a U.S. Justice Department report published today. The department's... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Former Bush Administration Lawyer Asks Judge for Probation
Federal prosecutors will not oppose a sentence of probation for a former George W. Bush administration lawyer who's charged in Washington with the destruction of government property. Prosecutors in December charged Scott Bloch, the former head of the Office of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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DOJ Asks Judge to End Suit Over Afghan War Memoir
The Justice Department has renewed its effort to shut down a lawsuit in Washington over the scope of information a former U.S. defense intelligence officer can publish in a memoir about service in the war in Afghanistan. DOJ lawyers said... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The Morning Wrap
The Am Law 100: "For the first time ever neither Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom nor Baker & McKenzie heads The Am Law 100’s gross revenue rankings, as DLA Piper—already the world’s largest firm by head count—claims the top... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Judge Rejects Stay in SEC Subpoena Fight with Deloitte
A federal trial judge in Washington today refused to put the brakes on the effort by U.S. securities regulators to squeeze audit documents from a Deloitte unit in China. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler adopted the recommendation of a magistrate... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Supreme Court Declines Review of Judicial Pay Case
By Marcia Coyle The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the government's appeal of a decision finding that Congress violated the compensation clause when it withheld cost of living salary adjustments for federal judges in the 1990s and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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U.S. Supreme Court Visitor Presses False Arrest Case
A man who was arrested inside the U.S. Supreme Court last year for refusing to remove his jacket is fighting to keep alive his lawsuit in Washington federal district court. The high court visitor, Fitzgerald Scott, was wearing a jacket... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The Morning Wrap
Manhunt: The authorities say one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead, and his brother on the run, following a shootout with police in suburban Massachusetts early Friday. The police identified the surviving suspect as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Meanwhile,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Federal Reserve Attorney Grilled on Too Big to Fail
By Jenna Greene Members of the House Committee on Financial Services pressed the top lawyer from the Federal Reserve about when and how the government could break up financial institutions–and seemed less than satisfied with his answers. During an April... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Judge Orders Man Jailed in Landmark GPS Case
The Washington man who was at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling over GPS tracking will remain locked up pending his fourth trial, a federal judge ruled today. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle concluded no condition... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Judge: DOJ Victory a 'Warning, Not an Invitation'
A federal appeals court in Washington today unanimously overturned the suppression of evidence in a drug trafficking case, giving the government a second chance. But one judge on the panel cautioned that the U.S. Justice Department and police should not... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The Morning Wrap
Charged: From today's National Law Journal: "A former senior KPMG LLP partner in Los Angeles has been charged with passing confidential information about clients to a close friend in exchange for cash bribes." Coverage here in The New York Times.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Judge Reverses Suspensions of Two Prosecutors in Ted Stevens Case
The U.S. Justice Department violated internal procedure in disciplining two federal prosecutors accused of ethical misconduct in the corruption case against Ted Stevens, a judge concluded in a ruling that voids the suspensions imposed on the two attorneys. Benjamin Gutman,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Justice Dept. Fights Former Prosecutor's Privacy Suit
U.S. Justice Department lawyers today asked a federal trial judge in Washington to shut down a former federal prosecutor's suit that alleges the government leaked information to the press about an internal attorney ethics investigation. DOJ lawyers argue in Richard... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Justice Dept. Asks Court to Dismiss Suit over Secret Court’s Opinions
Updated 5:58 p.m. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington operates largely out of the public spotlight, issuing secret orders that are not generally available for public review. In a pending lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department is fighting to block... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Link sought between white supremacist indictment, prosecutors' shooting
State and federal law enforcement authorities are trying to determine whether there's any connection between an indictment late last year against the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas and the shooting deaths of two prosecutors in Kaufman County, about 35 miles southeast... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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D.C. Circuit Revives Suit over DOJ Hiring Misconduct
A federal appeals court today revived a privacy suit rooted in a "dark chapter" at the U.S. Justice Department in which top officials assessed politics and ideology to screen applicants vying for entry-level slots in the prestigious Honors Program. In... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The Morning Wrap
The dealmakers: The American Lawyer spotlights this year's Dealmakers of the Year. "In a shaky recovery, corporate lawyers played an even more crucial role than they did in boom times," the report says. Off-limits: An appeals court in Georgia has... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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In Public Records Suit, No Extra Time for the FBI
A federal judge today refused to allow the U.S. Justice Department to put on hold, for more than a year, a suit that seeks information about the FBI's use of technology to collect mobile phone data. U.S. District Judge Colleen... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court Casts Doubt on DOMA
Marcia Coyle, chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal and a longtime U.S. Supreme Court reporter, has just emerged from the court's argument over the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, which forbids federal recognition of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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DOJ Urges D.C. Circuit to Allow Import of Lethal Injection Drug
A U.S. Justice Department lawyer today urged a federal appeals court in Washington to overrule a judge who blocked the import of a drug used in lethal injections. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled last year that food and drug... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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