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• Lobbying Prater
• Joining the health care reform fray
• Carlyle Group's mortgage jam
• Growing appeals
• INADMISSIBLE
• Big win for Monsanto in seed patent case
• Judge turns aside challenge to Voting Rights Act
• Federal Circuit slaps patent board for playing 'fast and loose'
• Courtside: Katyal's path to Hogan Lovells
• COURTSIDE: Fan critiques cert petition questions
• COURTSIDE: Newest justices join cert pool
• A taxing proposal
• A question of mental health
• How similar is too similar?

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Lobbying Prater	Top
Mark Prater, the recently chosen staff director of the powerful deficit-reduction panel, will play a key role in developing the committee's recommendations on how to find at least $1.2 trillion in savings over the next 10 years. This will make him a prime lobbying target.
Joining the health care reform fray	Top
Two elder statesmen of the tax law bar have joined in a brief that could help stall litigation against the Obama health care reform law until 2014 or later.
Carlyle Group's mortgage jam	Top
New class actions filed against the investment firm allege it deliberately misled investors.
Growing appeals	Top
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ends its summer recess on Sept. 12, a range of complex issues await the judges, including cases that examine securities fraud enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice leaks and the subpoena power of federal trade regulators.
INADMISSIBLE	Top
A "genius grant" for Connolly; Grassley sees red over muffins and meatballs; the power of Goold; remembering Norma Holloway Johnson; lashing out at lobbyists; three new D.C. ethics board attorneys; and stay out of the molecule chamber in this week's column.
Big win for Monsanto in seed patent case	Top
Monsanto Co. has scored a win for its genetically altered seed patents at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The decision was also a victory for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, including leading appellate advocate Seth Waxman, the chairman of its appellate and Supreme Court practice group in Washington.
Judge turns aside challenge to Voting Rights Act	Top
A federal judge in Washington ruled on Sept. 21 that Congress acted within its authority in 2006 when it extended the Voting Rights Act, including a section that requires some states and localities to get permission before changing how they run their elections.
Federal Circuit slaps patent board for playing 'fast and loose'	Top
In a rare reversal of a patent appeals board ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit chastised the board for rejecting a patent on a different ground than the one used by the patent examiner.
Courtside: Katyal's path to Hogan Lovells	Top
When Neal Katyal left the Justice Department as acting solicitor general in June, he was feted by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. On Tuesday Hogan Lovells, the firm where Roberts himself made his name as a top appellate advocate in the 1990s, announced it had hired Katyal, in a sense, as a successor to Roberts.
COURTSIDE: Fan critiques cert petition questions	Top
At its best, a well-formulated question is the shiny object that attracts the attention of a law clerk or a justice with a concise statement of an intriguing dilemma that the justices will want to solve. At its worst — and many are awful — the question presented can be a turgid, off-putting pack of run-on sentences that look like the result of a committee's hasty, last-minute compromise.
COURTSIDE: Newest justices join cert pool	Top
The U.S. Supreme Court's two newest justices have decided to remain in the Court's so-called "cert pool," leaving Justice Samuel Alito Jr. as the only justice whose law clerks screen incoming cases for just one member of the Court.
A taxing proposal	Top
President Barack Obama last week delivered a reminder to financial industry lobbyists: The battle over a special tax rate affecting private-equity and hedge-fund managers isn't finished.
A question of mental health	Top
A case now before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is raising fundamental questions about when doctors in Washington can forcibly commit someone who already has voluntarily agreed to seek help.
How similar is too similar?	Top
An important False Claims Act case is set for argument Sept. 16 in the D.C. Circuit. Millions of dollars can be at stake for the whistleblower who first jumps into the fray to allege wrongdoing.

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