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• The next Lloyd Cutler?
• Red meat for defense
• Civil Rights staffs up
• Museum dispute hits courts
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• Medical device maker sues FDA for rescinding approval of knee implant
• Supreme Court finds former AG John Ashcroft immune from suit
• Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement
• High court practitioners: increasingly diverse
• In blow to business groups, justices uphold Arizona law on hiring foreign workers
• In prison decision, a high court rarity: photographs
• Fulfilling foreign judgments
• Farmers case yields big fees
• Feds say D.C. lawyer needs ethics lesson

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The next Lloyd Cutler?	Top
Former White House counsel have often been giants of Washington's legal establishment. Think names like Lloyd Cutler, C. Boyden Gray or Abner Mikva. And as the next counsel to the president, 40-year-old Kathryn Ruemmler may be a giant in the making — if she can survive the politically gruelling tests she's sure to face.
Red meat for defense	Top
In the months leading up to the May 2008 raid on an Iowa slaughterhouse, U.S. District Judge Linda Reade in Cedar Rapids participated in a series of meetings with law enforcement agents and prosecutors, government memos show.
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.
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That's a little over 156 pages a day for the DOJ; more from Corey Moore; expert advice for Cacheris; state judge elections don't come with general anesthesia; Vioxx trials featured in new book; and a new face at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in this week's column.
Medical device maker sues FDA for rescinding approval of knee implant	Top
Bankrupt medical device maker ReGen Biologics Inc. has sued the Food and Drug Administration, claiming that the agency overstepped its authority when it reclassified the company's knee implant and forced it off the market.
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.
High court practitioners: increasingly diverse	Top
Last month's announcement that former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger was turning over the reins of O'Melveny & Myers' prestigious appellate practice to Sri Srinivasan, born in India and raised in Kansas, is just the latest sign that diversity is blossoming where before there was almost none.
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.
Fulfilling foreign judgments	Top
A new bill before the District of Columbia Council could help parties trying to collect on foreign money judgments, according to attorneys supporting the law.
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?

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