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• Civil Rights staffs up
• Museum dispute hits courts
• Torts once again on the front burner in the House
• Will Ensign case trigger new conduct code?
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• Supreme Court finds former AG John Ashcroft immune from suit
• Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement
• D.C. prosecutors describe 'obviously' illegal deal in FCPA case
• In blow to business groups, justices uphold Arizona law on hiring foreign workers
• In prison decision, a high court rarity: photographs
• Justices rule in whistleblower, police search cases
• Farmers case yields big fees
• Feds say D.C. lawyer needs ethics lesson
• Getting SLAPPed

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Civil Rights staffs up	Top
Some of the lawyers who left the U.S. Depart­ment of Justice's Civil Rights Division during George W. Bush's presidency and complained they were the target of ideological warfare have returned during the past two years as part of a wave of hiring.
Museum dispute hits courts	Top
Everything seemed in place in the early 2000s to have the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial open by the end of the decade. Beyond a basic concept, however, the major donors couldn't seem to agree on anything else.
Torts once again on the front burner in the House	Top
Corporate lawyers and their rivals in the plaintiffs bar were back at their old arguments over the nation's tort system, this time before a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee.
Will Ensign case trigger new conduct code?	Top
The charges against former U.S. Sen. John Ensign include one that has been rare in the Senate's history — violation of rules against sexual harassment.
INADMISSIBLE	Top
Montgomery Blair Sibley, who represented the "D.C. Madam," said that despite losing his latest bid for reinstatement before the U.S. Supreme Court, he plans to keep fighting. Michael Scanlon, on the other hand, has thrown in the towel on his battle with Greenberg Traurig. And the long-awaited clash between the Obama administration's chief regulator, Cass Sunstein, and House Republicans may finally be coming.
Supreme Court finds former AG John Ashcroft immune from suit	Top
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is immune from a damages suit claiming he used the federal material witness statute in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a pretext to detain terrorism suspects, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement	Top
A coalition of 55 student bar association presidents wrote on Thursday to a number of U.S. senators proposing legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collect graduate job information statistics directly from law schools.
D.C. prosecutors describe 'obviously' illegal deal in FCPA case	Top
The government's closely watched foreign bribery sting case that nabbed 22 arms and military equipment industry executives and employees began today here in Washington, where a prosecutor described to jurors an allegedly corrupt deal to sell $15 million worth of supplies to the defense minister of Gabon.
In blow to business groups, justices uphold Arizona law on hiring foreign workers	Top
In a ruling that could encourage states to impose their own restrictions on hiring illegal aliens, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that penalizes employers who knowingly hire unauthorized foreign workers.
In prison decision, a high court rarity: photographs	Top
Justice Anthony Kennedy did something exceptionally rare in his majority opinion in Brown v. Plata: He used photographs to illustrate prison conditions in California.
Justices rule in whistleblower, police search cases	Top
The Supreme Court made a dent in its 46-case backlog with three decisions on Monday, including one that is a major win for government contractors and another that makes it easier for police to conduct searches without warrants.
Farmers case yields big fees	Top
This month, a federal judge in Washington quietly approved a $1.25 billion settlement and conditionally agreed to a fee range that could generate a $92.5 million award to be split among all the lawyers.
Feds say D.C. lawyer needs ethics lesson	Top
Defense attorney Charles Daum has been indicted on several charges, including witness tampering and perjury. But did he really risk his career on a routine drug prosecution?
Getting SLAPPed	Top
In November, Washington became the latest jurisdiction to adopt an anti-SLAPP law; the statute went into effect on March 31.

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