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National Law Journal

Pat Cipollone, Gene Scalia, Chris Landau & More: The Year in Financial Disclosures

A collection of our 2019 reporting on financial disclosures from Big Law partners who left such firms as Quinn Emanuel; King & Spalding; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Milbank; Kirkland & Ellis; and Sullivan & Cromwell.
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National Law Journal

DOJ Says Court Can't Order Trump to Keep Records of His Contacts With Foreign Leaders

The Justice Department argued that courts don't have the authority to issue such rulings against a sitting president or his office because it "would raise the same separation of powers issues implicated by relief against the president himself."
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Hidden Behind a Paywall': Justices Weigh Challenge to Copyrighting Georgia's Legal Code

Chief Justice John Roberts quickly homed in on the significance of the annotations and whether they are considered "official."
5 minute read

National Law Journal

As White House Stonewalls on Ukraine Docs, Wave of FOIA Suits Seek to Pry Them Loose

Two federal judges have even pointed to a White House counsel letter refusing to cooperate in the impeachment proceedings as a reason for granting some of the records requests.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

US Justice Dept. Secrecy in McCabe Records Suit Is Challenged

"[T]here is virtually no likelihood that any legitimate interest of the government will be harmed by disclosing the contents of the ex parte discussions," Anne Weismann, chief FOIA counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in a court filing Tuesday.
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National Law Journal

Judge Questions Whether DOJ 'Manipulated' Him in McCabe Public Records Suit

Federal prosecutors denied any deception, arguing their court statements in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit were made in good faith.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Report Reveals Frantic Scramble After California Bar Exam Blunder

A 19-page report prepared by Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni found that a bar staffer, pressured to finish work before having to proctor the two-day exam in July, mistakenly included a list of topics in an email inviting 16 law school deans to observe a test grading session later that summer.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

New Lawsuit Alleges Illegal 'Shadow' Ukraine Diplomacy at Trump's Direction

"State Department officials charged with carrying out our foreign policy should not be left in the dark about shadow diplomacy carried out through a secret, alternative channel," the complaint reads.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Law Firm Sues US Regulatory Agency for Records About Settlement's Gag Order

"In effect, the CFTC negotiated a private resolution that left the industry without any intelligible guidance," the law firm Kobre & Kim said in a public-records lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal district court.
5 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

An ERISA Bounty (And What the Justices Might Think About That) | ACA Defenders Want Expanded Time | Who First Joined This Gorsuch Ruling | DOJ Resists FOIA for Kavanaugh Docs

Welcome to Supreme Court Brief. This term features an abundance of ERISA cases—what to make of that? Plus: the big "risk-corridor" ACA case is coming up, and the plaintiffs want expanded argument time. Plus: the Justice Department is fighting a FOIA that seeks to pry open an FBI background file on Brett Kavanaugh.
10 minute read

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